Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) is Canada’s leading supplier of quality outdoor gear and clothing. The company sells a complete line of outdoor gear and apparel, including a large selection of gloves. They even have cycling gloves for summer and winter! These are my number one recommendation if you find you get cold fingers, but want a glove that is flexible, and allows free movement. The lobster-style design has been evolved to have an optimised finger split: where the separation of the forefinger allows for easier braking and shifting on both road and MTB levers – so you have maximum dexterity and control.

We've reviewed plenty of winter gloves on road.cc, but the lobster design is a little rarer, so there aren't many to compare these GripGrabs against. Instead of a hook and loop closure, Castelli uses a zippered closure. The Espresso GT also uses a longer cut at the wrist, a squared-off fingertip shape, and lots of silicone grip material on the palm. The overall effect is a less bulky feeling that is faster to get on and off and has a better connection with your bars than the Gore glove. Read more details in our full Sportful Lobster gloves review . How to choose the best winter cycling gloves I don't always need the carrying capacity of the Xtracycle, but my old three-speed really isn't up to snuff any more. I'd like to have a simple bike that I could use for fun, or to take on transit, or to take to rides a little further from home. I'm not sure which brand or style I'd want, but I'd like to get a basic hybrid bike (combination of road and mountain bike), just for myself.There is a waterproof fabric and a windproof fabric. Both these fabrics are different, however, many times they are combined as one. The basic concept is that they fit over your handlebars and provide warm compartments for your hands. That way you can ride without gloves in moderately cold temperatures or get by with summer gloves if it’s below freezing. Then, without the bulky gloves, you can easily brake and shift and do whatever you need to do with your hands. Inside the Velocio Alpha gloves you will find Polartec Alpha. Basically this is the newest wonder material. It's incredibly warm for the weight and it breathes better than any other modern synthetic insulation. Velocio wraps a stylish outer with plenty of colours available around Polartec Alpha and makes a glove that covers a huge range of temperatures while keeping the bulk low. But right now we’re looking at the MEC lobster gloves, which are highly regarded when it comes to quality lobster gloves. Even though they aren’t specifically a cycling company, I hear a number of cyclists raving about their great MEC lobster gloves. Although mittens is a term often used to refer to fingerless gloves, here we’ll use it for full hand protectors that get mounted around the handlebar, and where the riders slides his/her hands in.

For how unique the experience is though, it mostly disappears. The app is set and forget and everything just works seamlessly to add heat all the way to the end of the fingers. It would be great to have the same tech in a less bulky glove but if you need help to stay warm these are the best heated gloves I've tried. The only thing you need to be careful of is keeping them clean as you can’t toss them in the washer.I wore them on Tuesday and at the end my hands were really wet, not that it was raining but because they don't appear to be breathable. There are details beyond just cold-weather performance that make these attractive, too. One of those details is smartphone compatibility. Pearl Izumi makes sure you can use your smartphone without removing your gloves although realistically you'll be using your thumbs not your finger. There is a touchscreen point on the forefinger but given the lobster design it's almost completely unusable.