If you have road levers you could try Bar Mitts, see http://www.velonews.com/article/85046/bar-mitts or http://www.barmitts.com/. These put the levers and shifters under the insulation. They're kinda pricey at $65.00 and designed to work with Shimano road levers although an adaptor is available for Campy and SRAM. There are similar systems for snow mobiles which might be adaptable to a bike with flat bars.
Dave ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Lund Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 12:24 PM To: bikies Subject: Re: [Bikies] -6F mitt suggestions? For sub-zero temperatures or simply for people who hate biking with bulkier gloves, I highly recommend AMF Threadworks Moosemitts (or similar product). Info on the Moosemitts, including photos, can be found here: http://www.trails-edge.com/retail/te_shirts/amfbikemits.htm Much like pogies used by kyakers, these are extremely made, and have an interior pocket for a disposable hand warmer, or similar item. My hands get very cold easily. With the Moosemitts, I'm able to wear my fall-season gloves in temps like we've had the past two days, and I'm warmer than when wearing my Peal Izumi loberster claw gloves. The one question people always have about this is "How easy are they to get your hands in and out of in a hurry - like if you're falling.?" Answer: Very easy. Hardly much different than if you weren't using them. There are a number of small companies making versions of these. -Martin On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:49 AM, John Martin <[email protected]> wrote: This morning the 30 minute ride in was cold (-6F). I had 40g thinsulate mittens with fleece finger-lining inside -- any thicker and I'll barely be able to grip the handlebars. For the most part, my hands stayed warm, but my fingertips (mostly thumbtips) suffered. Does anyone here have ideas on extremely cold finger protection? I've read that battery-heated gloves work on palms, but not fingers. I can't imagine any non-heated gloves would keep my fingers warm, and thicker mitts are too thick. What (specifically) have you long-time winter bikers found works on days like today (besides the bus ;-). only now thawed enough to type, John _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org -- ......... __ o .........-\<, ......(O) (O)........... ...........................
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