Gloves inside or outside

When I started riding in the very early 70's we only had Belstaff
jackets which had narrow cuffs on the sleeves. Therefore we used to
wear our gloves on the outside of the sleeves. A colleague at work
started riding in the mid 90's when there was a greater choice in
clothing and he always wears his sleeves over the top of his gloves.
We have had a number of animated debates as to which is the best and
which keeps you warmer and or drier.
No conclusion has been reached. So FOAK is it best to have gloves in
or out?

Boxerboy

 

Depends on the bike and the angle of your arms

 

Gloves in cuffs out. Water doesn't run into glove then.

Mark

 

But if you have apehangers, the water will run down your arms

 

Also the gloves & jacket cuffs.

I have the HG Cruise with super double arm holes, a nice neoprene one
inside, with a normal tightish one outside. My AS gloves are the same,
you can make the very opverlapping & watertight inside the outer bit.

Great idea.

 

I have a Belstaff and a textile Bering jacket and have Bering gloves over
the cuffs. They do seal quite tightly with the velcro cuff sealer thingy.

Even in the mad rain last Biker Lifestyle trip in Slovenia or in the
rain/snowstorm/gates of hell that was the Elefant I had dry hands.

Applies on a cafe raceresque Guzzi, sensible BMW and barking Snorky.

 

Summer gloves in the middle of winter because I use Tucano Urbano muffs and
heated grips. Position of gloves in relation to cuffs is immaterial. For
comfort, as they are light weight, they are likely to get put inside the
jacket cuffs.

On wet summer days, I'd have the gloves tucked into the cuffs of my HG
Cruise jacket. Same if I put my Belstaff oversuit on top of leathers.

 

Gloves OVER leathers, and dont ride in the rain.

I have noticed a lot of racers now have their boot INSIDE their
leathers too of late.
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Indeed.

For 'rain gloves', under the cuffs where clearance allows. Or in monsoon
conditions Hell Hansen overmitts.

I'd need bell bottom leathers to go over my Sidi Vertebras.

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In.

 

But shouldn't you be going fast enough to blow the rain up your arms?

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Malc

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The answer is obvious, gloves should fit outside of the sleeves to
stop rain running up the sleeves.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

That settles that then.

In.

 

I vote for over. Think about riding in rain. A glove is going to force
the rain up your sleeve if you go under. And it just sounds plain
uncomfortable to me ...

Kev

 

I've got ones that do both. The glove has an extra outer cuff so the
cuff goes inside the sleeve, and the outer cuff velcros around the
sleeve. That makes water go up the back of the glove, onto the sleeve,
where if it soaks back down, it's still outside the inner glove and
dribbes out the bottom of the wrist.

They're an ARSE to get done up, but once they're done they don't leak at
all. Sadly it took me so long to work out how to work them that the
lovely fluffy inner surfaces got too many soakings and have lost their
fluff.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Kevin Gleeson

In really heavy rain (and on a long run), I always tuck the gloves
inside the sleeves. Otherwise, rain runs down the sleeves and soaks the
gloves in minutes.

In lighter rain I usually tuck the sleeves in the gloves, just because
it's easier.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

If that came from anyone other that a decrepit old fart who's too weak
to kickstart an Enfield, I'd be offended.

 

heh. Inny or outy, who'd have thought there'd be such a debate.

I generally go over the textile jacket cuff for winter gloves, just
because my summer gloves go over my leathers. If it's torrential, I
put my oversuit cuff over the glove, but leave the glove over the
inner jacket.

TBQH, I rarely stop to put on an oversuit, unless i'm getting cold, or
it's in France, where the rain is likely to go on .. and on ..

Paul.

 

I prefer gloves outside sleeves. It stops cold air blowing up the sleeve.
However, riding position is probably important. If hands are well below
elbows then rain running down into the gloves is likely to be a problem so
gloves inside is best. Hands at around the same level as elbow (me) = wind
up sleeve problem so outside is best. Hands well above elbow = apehangers =
not likely to ride the chrome-and-skull-festooned monstrosity in the rain
anyway.

 

september.org:

I do this. I've a job to do my Daytonas up with just a pair of winter socks
on. No way would I get them over a pair of leathers. Took a while to find a
pair of leather trousers without tapered legs but Akito came up trumps.