Do You Really Need Gloves?

Ride a bike is one of the most fun kinds of sports, and it also one of the kinds of sports you can do it alone, without partners or enemy, unless you are in a race. For the people that make the cycling activity as their hobby, cycling is not just a sport but it's something like the lifestyle. But like another sports, it also needs the equipment to make this activity keep secure and minimize the injury, so now people are wearing helmets, shoes, glasses, and gloves to protect the body. Wearing gloves will give benefits while in cycling, such as it gives better grip which is helpful to control or to handle the bike. When the hands are wet from sweat, the gloves will absorb it that will be useful to prevent handling slip.

For the country with the cold weather, wearing gloves also help to keep the hands warm. When hands getting cold, the fingers are hard to be moved because they are getting stiff. Wearing gloves will protect the hands from cold weather, so the hands will warm and it makes better handling and controlling. Because gloves are the important parts for biker, it is recommended for the biker, especially DH or FR racers - actually all kinds racers - wearing gloves. The gloves also protect the fingers from the possibility of injury from external factors like rocks or trees where they can find easily in our cycling track. So, to avoid from them, the full finger gloves will be helpful than half finger gloves.

So, gloves are important for biker to protect and to ease the rider to control and handle the bike. Even some said that if you ride without gloves, it same as you have a sex without condoms! But that sentence just for fun; best gloves will protect the hands better, especially the gloves with gel, which can grip the handlebar better than without gel. With better grip, the rider will get better handling and controlling so the cycling activity - whether DH, FR, XC, or another - keep secure and it can be fun activity to spend our weekend with friends, family, or even alone!