When I first started working on the best winter cycling gloves buyers guide I was training for the Rapha Festive 500 in one shot. The idea was to head out from the Seattle store and ride through the only temperate rainforest on the American continent. In short, I was asking for a lot from my gloves and I was looking for the best options to keep my hands in the cold and wet.
Most rides, when I was testing gloves, involved leaving the house just after dawn in the rain. The temperatures hovered a bit above freezing and it would rain consistently for the next seven hours or so that I would be riding. I would subject gloves to this torture test over and over and eventually I put together a list of six things I learned while testing winter cycling gloves.
Thankfully, those kinds of winter rides are behind me for the most part. I’ve been there enough and learned what I needed to know. These days I try to stick to nicer days and test gloves in other situations so I can round out my recommendations.
For the 2023 Cyclingnews awards, I’ve taken a look at both situations. If you are looking for new winter cycling gloves when the days get shorter keep reading to see what I consider the best value winter cycling gloves, the best overall winter cycling gloves, and one honourable mention.
Best overall
I tend to do longer rides in colder weather and I’m constantly cold. That combination of traits has led me to spend a lot of time looking for warmer and more extreme gloves. Most people aren’t looking for that though. Instead, most people need a much lighter glove that will do a lot and still be packable. That’s where the Castelli Perfetto RoS gloves do the best work.
Gore fabrics see heavy use in Castelli designs. For the Perfetto RoS gloves Castelli uses Gore-Tex Infinium as the outer layer. Infinium isn’t waterproof but it’s close. The real world result is that you probably can’t tell the difference between a fully waterproof glove and an Infinium glove as no glove is actually waterproof. Instead, the Perfetto RoS gloves are completely windproof and there’s a warm fleece lining. The result is a glove that easy to stash…
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