Help! Impossibly small hands!

[OakLeaf]

@colorisnt, what about putting extra padding on your bars rather than trying to find padded gloves? Grab-Ons or a second layer of cork might help you out, particularly if gloves don't fit well.

@Roadtrip, the rear shifter is that way on purpose, so you can trim. Trimming is especially important with a wide gear range. Sheldon Brown and Park Tool have pretty much everything you need to know about maintenance and repairs, and Shimano's own website has technical documents for most of their products. Sounds like your RD cable is just in need of a serious tightening (try the barrel adjuster first, but if it's so far off that it won't shift off the small cog, you'll probably have to reposition the cable in the clamp).

[colorisnt]

Oak,

That is a great idea.

Also, my parents, noting the rough week I had with students and my stress over gloves sent me some nice Cabela's gloves. They actually FIT and I think what I will do is take your advice as well as wear my lightest cycling gloves under. I also bought a lighter pair from nashbar for the "cool" days. So, despite my awful migraines, I am happy to have gloves.

MY Cabela's order also arrived and I got a baselayer, softshell jacket, fleece wind resistant pants, and rain pants for under $100.00. So, if you need some quality basics, may be worth looking into the "bargain cave". I am sure Dad got the gloves with his "cabela's points" (we spend WAY too much at that store as a family).

I can't wait to do BikeMO tomorrow! I now have a pair of pants to wear there OVER my shorts and back home so people don't stair at me in my race wear haha!

[Becky]

Louis Garneau's Winddry Eco gloves in the women's sizing are ridiculously small. I normally wear a medium in WSD long-finger gloves, and I couldn't even get the women's large the whole way on.

I have the men's version, and they work well for 35-50 degrees. Below that, and I'm wanting something warmer.

[Aggie_Ama]

I often wear my short finger gloves under a pair of Descente "Cold Out" long finger padless gloves, it isn't very practical in Texas to have beefy gloves. The Descente gloves are wonderfully comfortable. I won a pair of Kona Supreme Mountain Bike gloves for women and they run very small, mine are just like the link but pink and black. I usually wear a medium and these are snug at XL. I haven't gotten to try them in action yet.

[cricketk]

ETA: I have regular gloves. They took ages to find (in fact I need a new pair) but I need WINTER gloves.

I don't know how cold/wet your winter is, but over our most recent winter I wore a pair of thinsulate liner gloves under a pair of 1-size too big fingerless gloves and that kept me warm and toasty down to 0 celsius (and solved the problem of the gloves being too big).