Help! Impossibly small hands!

[Roadtrip]

Sorry I don't have any incite for your glove troubles, but wanted to commersiate a little, as I have huge hands for a woman. I have trouble finding gloves... Not in fit, but styling... To get gloves that fit me I normally have to buy mens gloves and most of them are not exactly something I'm grooving on.

[colorisnt]

My mother also has big hands, too. They are proportional to her tall frame, but still she has trouble finding gloves. I guess I have just had trouble finding something that is not cycling specific to use for commuting. I need to be able to use my hands to get around and to get my school supplies, etc on/off my bike. Frustration!

Limewave, do you have any suggestions in kids gloves? Also, I need support on my hands. Do you wear your regular cycling gloves underneath?

[malkin]

I don't wear cycling specific gloves anymore ever.

[OakLeaf]

Just remember that cycling gloves are primarily a piece of safety equipment, so whatever you wear, make sure the palms are abrasion-resistant and that there's some kind of wrist closure to keep them from pulling off in a crash.

Depending on your riding position, studded motorcycle gloves probably wouldn't work if you like to ride on the hoods of drop bars, but anything else should be good, and studded gloves should be fine if you ride flat bars.

[Biciclista]

this may or may not help, but i've found that for protection, I can wear my husband's gloves (one size + too big). Better too big than too small.

[moonfroggy]

like a lot of people here i wear kids gloves

when i wear gloves that are two big if they have fingers and are not the fingerless sometimes te extra fabric has gotten caught n the breaks or shifters i can wear bigger gloves on my mountain bike without this problem but on my road bike they are not safe for me to wear.

[Roadtrip]

Here's my hand.. from pinky to thumb nine inches.. if I reach.. ten inches. Palm to end of index finger is close to seven inches.



On the "glass" half full, at least I do have the OPTION of a mans glove... so in tiny hands trump Godzilla hands

BTW: the shifters on my WSD bike are HIGHLY irritating as they're too small... grrrr

Shannon

[OakLeaf]

the shifters on my WSD bike are HIGHLY irritating as they're too small... grrrr

Shannon

Shimano or Campy? If they're Shimano R700, you can get smaller shims (and may be able to use them without any shims, I'm not sure).