A Variety of Gloves for All Seasons

You could make an argument that gloves are the second-most important bit of rider protective apparel. After, of course, the helmet. That’s probably particularly true at low speeds, when injuries are for the most part survivable, but painful. After all, what is one’s first reaction to any fall, motorcycle or otherwise? To put out your hands to break your descent, right? Dropping onto gritty asphalt at even 15 kilometres an hour will turn flesh into hamburger and/or knuckles to dust. Do so with an appropriate glove at even five – or 10! – times that speed and, short of a trapping your hand between handlebar and tarmac, you might get off scar-free.

Besides, gloves do so much more. In the summer, they ward off wind, bugs and the small rocks cagers are always launching