Help! Impossibly small hands!

[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).

[colorisnt]

The problem is that without cycling specific gloves with SOME padding my hands really take a beating. Fit is fine (on the bike), but not all the roads are great on the way into campus. I really need something to dull it, but something that is warm. I didn't even go to work today because of a horrendous migraine, but if I would have, it would have been necessary to get some gloves.

[Roadtrip]

It's a Trek Pure with SRAM MRX "Twist" shifters... me don't like due to size and acerbated by my larger hands... tho I think I know why... see below.

It's not necessarily the twist shifter itself (even tho I prefer the standard type shifter), it's the crappy setup to begin with. OK, they prob ASSUME your on this bike and most likely not doing to be shifting much. WHY give you 21 gears if they assume you won't be changing.

Honestly, I'm not sure what part I've been having issues with... I hate the shifters. Trek seems to have put the cheaper version on this bike. the version I find on Amazon looks totally different-- better-- longer "grip" portion. Plus the shifter for rear derailleur still has seven or eight "clicks" even tho it's a triple in the back-- so-- click-- click-- click-- ok-- I'm finally there. It's like they got an overstock on right shifters and someone in accounting said use then, just change display 1-7 to 1-3. In order to go into my big gear for flats I have to mash the thing well above "1" in order to get it to change gear.

Rear derailleur is a Shimano Acera that seems to need constant tweaking and last night nearly killed me on a hilly ride when it WOULD NOT let me change down a gear. Not to mention it often likes to buck me so hard it has more then once threw my right foot right off the right pedal when changing gear.

Ended up riding as far as I could and felt like I was going to cough up a lung-- ended up pushing my bike up the last hill. Enough to make you want to leave the bike at the side of the road and just walk. Nothing like grinding away at JUST barely faster then you can walk because when you try and shift all you here is grrrrr grrrrrr grrrrrrr and chain stays right where it was.

Really need to learn how to make these adjustments myself.

Sorry for the rant!!

Shannon