Winter's delayed arrival certainly postponed this year's bout of gear testing, but 10°F with blowing wind sure brought it all back.
Riding my commuter with bar ends on the drop bars I haven't had any problems steering, braking or shifting with an adequately sized mitt. I do have an ancient pair of lobsters from Pearl Izumi that are, as Deacon points out, adequately insulated with wind resistant, very vapor permeable shells. If it's wettish by snow or rain in any way, they are already out of their temperature envelope. In the coldest days last year (-12°F, 10 MPH wind) I found myself moving all fingers into one portion of their claws. These get kudos for the sheer duration (circa 1990) of their continued serviceability and validation of claims about PrimaLoft. I have a pair of OR shell mitts with a grippy palm and thumb surface that have a more water resistant shell for the rain snow and slop, I just add a base glove or mitt inside to meet the needs of the day. They are my yeoman handware and are starting to look as so. All replies interesting both in the writers' baseline response to cold and the choices they've come to prefer. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 10:42:41 AM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > Tested to -20˚F. Boiled wool, with a nylon shell (or cotton canvas works > too -- no waterproof stuff, the idea is it need to block wind, but breathe > very well.). http://www.sweatersintl.com/dachstein_mitts.html > > You could experiment with lobsterizing them by getting a size up and > cutting/sewing them to split the fingers. This will diminish their warmth > somewhat though, so be aware of that. > > With abandon, > Patrick > > On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 6:01:26 AM UTC-7, Belopsky wrote: >> >> What do you all wear? It's down to 10*F here and getting colder. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
