Hitting those famous tracks day in, day out for eight years, he broke more bikes than he can remember. Alex moved to Morzine in the French Alps at 19 to pursue a career as a bike bum and clocked up an enormous amount of riding. He started racing downhill at the tender age of 11 before going on to compete across Europe. ![]() Once my hands were sweaty and clammy, the gloves remained easy to put on and remove, and taking them off didn’t turn the liner inside out.Īlex Evans is BikeRadar’s senior mountain bike technical editor. They’re perfect for milder winter days, or cold days when you want to ride hard, and give an exceptional balance between heat, feel and waterproofing. It’s their thickness that provides the warmth, but it isn’t lofty enough to generate heat on super-cold days. The gloves feel fairly thick, but are closer to gardening gloves than skiing gloves in overall composition, lacking specific, fluffy insulation. This tension didn’t fade with time, and I already felt I was wearing the most suitable size for my hands, with going up a size likely to reduce dexterity and feel more than it would improve comfort. This put pressure across the back of my hand, focused quite specifically along the padded bar of protection. The back of the gloves isn’t quite as forgiving as the palm, feeling quite rigid and stiff, especially when I was grasping the handlebar. ![]() The blocky protection increased stiffness.
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