Today, I bought my birthday present from my wife four months early.
At the very end of the last motorcycle season, sometime in December, my gloves crapped out on me. They were a pretty cheap glove and they didn’t last long.
I had been looking to buy a new pair of gloves in the $50-60 range and during my visit to my local Yamaha dealer I found a pair that fit that bill well enough to give them a try.
I haven’t ridden with them yet however they seem comfortable enough. They are a little coarse against my index finger knuckle but I think will work itself out. They have a fairly nice and large gauntlet. The main thing I am still questionable about is the air holes in between the fingers. It seems as if they might add enough air in the winter to make my hands cold, which is why I’ll be wearing glove liners and using my grip heaters, yet not provide enough air in the summer to really do anything.
UPDATE: I rode with these in 34F weather and found the gauntlet to be quite good at keeping the wind out of my sleeves. My fingers did get a little cold partly due to the vent hole in the fingers and partly due to the ambient temperature. They were very comfortable in that I hardly noticed them while riding. This allowed me to focus on avoiding the sand and salt.
Those look good. I find the most annoying thing about bike gloves is the gauntlet, always too big to tuck under a jacket but way too small to fit over a jacket.
During the Fall I bought some “in between” (elk hide) work gloves for cool weather riding. While the yellow leather is buttery soft, the edges of the seams (inside) in one place was rubbing my finger wrong. I was able to turn the finger inside out and trim the leather with some scissors, plus hammer it flat and soft. Problem solved.