So interesting to read all the comments! To clarify, i ride a hybrid and i ride pretty slowly... being overweight and a beginner. But i do have a lot of fun, and now have a new pair of gloves that I got from a outdoor sports store (the bike shop guys just shook there heads and said they didnt know what else to offer me). The chap in the outdoor sports shop had ridden in that same morning and was a "freezing finger" sufferer like me, and said that he wore these gloves and they were good.

I wont get to road test the gloves til tomorrow (seems so long between rides!) but i stuck my hand out of the car window at 80kph yesterday with them on and they felt good. So here's hoping!

Seems everyone who rides in Canberra has their normal winter gloves and there sub-zero gloves. I dont feel quite so much of a wimp anymore