My guess is that it applies better, so the dosage is overall lower? Just guessing here.
For all of you that don’t live in frozen tundra, can we have some rain chat?
I’ve always just dealt with wet shoes and plastic bags over my socks. Works good enough if I can ride door to door but I’d rather ride the train for part of my commute than spend 2 hours pedaling in the rain. Anyone have any good luck with waterproof booties over mtb shoes? Bees wax waterproofing? I’d like to maybe not be squishing water out of my shoes every step I take in the train station.
Next issue, I’ve used regular winter cycling gloves treated with spray on DWR. Kinds sucks that it wears off on the palm after like 3 rides and the cuff of my gloves never really sheds water very well. I remember seeing something on here about some rubberized work gloves that some of y’all liked, or is there another option I’m not thinking about?
I’d prefer to not buy cycling specific rain gloves and shoes, if I can do this on a budget I’ll be stoked. Total time I’ll be spending in the rain is about 35-45 minutes each way.
Yeah, the brine gets sprayed on evenly and dries. Rather than getting flung out of driving lines by vehicle tires, it tends to stayed where it was applied for longer and less gets used. Ideal for pretreatment, not that great if roads are already covered. But that might be down to the challenges of driving a tanker on snowy roads.
Those rubberized work gloves are called Ninja Ice, but they come in a bunch of other flavors too. http://www.ninjagloves.com/docs/ninja_icehtp.htm
Good luck with the wet feet, but you live in California so…
The “ice” model is a winter glove, they’re decently warm. they also do other coated gloves that might be more suitable for warmer climate. or just buy a few dif pairs coz they’re like 6dollars
If you’re not gonna wear cycling specific shoes, you need to spend some serious $$$ on waterproof boots. Lightweight hikers are probably your best bet. This is why most people in the PNW wear cycling shoes with covers for their rainy commutes: There’s really nothing better than shoe covers for soaking wet rides. Many shoe covers will fit over chrome or DZR style shoes, but make sure that you test it out before buying, and you’ll need to take the covers off and find some way to transport them. I have a co-worker who has the DZR shoes (I think) and he seems to think they’re pretty dang waterproof. I know you don’t want to buy specific shoes, but there may not be many better choices. You may be able to get some cheap shoe covers that fit fine over your current kicks.
If you’re infrequently riding in the rain, try rubber dishwashing/cleaning gloves as a cheap option, maybe with some very thin glove liners inside to help manage sweat. I use a combination of softshell gloves, quick dry gloves, and some giro gore-tex super waterproof gloves that are basically ski gloves and cost a fortune, depending on the amount and duration of precipitation. I usually carry an extra pair so I can change as needed.
Lazer helmets make quite a few snap on “aero” covers that are also great rain hats because they are clear plastic and quite impermeable.
Also, make sure that you have an appropriately long set of fenders and use a front mudflap, as it will block a surprising amount of water from your front tire.
I love the Ice Ninjas. They work for me down to ~0f then I gotta bust out the lobster mitts.
I may be looking into Ninja Ice even here in Texas. I really want to love the Duragloves but it gets just colder than they can handle on some mornings.
Those Ninja Ice gloves seem perfect for defending M’lady’s honor!
not all gloves
Any recommendations for super-thin glove liners?
How thin? I always use those cheap stretch to fit knit gloves. They’re awesome. Have a pile of em.
Not sure. I want to wear them under my PI half-lobster gloves.
For gloves for rainy weather be sure the cuff of the glove fits under the sleeve. Many gloves have a cuff designed to fit over the sleeve–this will act like a funnel into the glove for the rain running down your arm.
I used to use liners a lot on the bike and they would never last more than a couple of months before a seam blew out.
Since most of my gloves aren’t really waterproof, just warm when wet, this seems like it doesn’t really improve hand dryness.
What would be neat is a sort of gutter flare at the end of the raincoat sleeve to deflect the water running down your sleeves away from your gloves.
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I use PI P.R.O. Thermal Lite gloves as liners and they work well. They’re thinnish, enough to fit under my hardware store work gloves. A+.
Anyone have some favorite cheap (<$30) handlebar mitts?