Wear cycling gloves tight?

[Catrin]

Remember that gloves are for protection more than comfort. The guy who built my race frame, actually, crashed while tooling around campus without gloves and basically couldn't use his hands for a couple of weeks while the road rash healed.

Yes, this. I wear full finger Endura mountain bike gloves for the trail, and Gore half-finger gloves on the road. I wouldn't mind some Endura road gloves but they have some strange stuff in the palms, it isn't paddng, per se, but it is odd. My hands swell quite a bit on the road, haven't noticed it on the mountain bike.

[Artista]

I have small hands but prefer to wear women's, medium, half-finger, gloves. Size small doesn't bother me much when I'm riding but I hate trying to get them off after a ride. Mediums allow my hands to swell and I can still get the gloves off easily.

[azfiddle]

I think I have small hands but most women's small gloves are too tight. I recently bought a pair of gloves that fits well, but comfortably- close, no gaps, but definitely not tight.

I went to two stores and tried on about 12 pairs in 5 or 6 brands before I found a pair that I really liked the fit of. They are made by Serfas.

[Catrin]

I have small hands, but long fingers and my hands SWELL on the road...even medium gloves get tight. It is always hard to choose short-fingered gloves. Considering just wearing my long-fingered mtb gloves, for some odd reason my hands don't seem to swell so much in those.