I’ll try them!
Edit: I ordered a pair. Will report.
i dunno what people feel about these but the Giro DND is a go-to for me. Going on ten years of road, mtb, gravel, fixie business, and lots of falls with my pair. the price is right too.
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Could just be a bad batch. They have a pretty generous warranty, so shoot them an email.
Yeah I’ve had one of my pairs for like 5 years now with no problems
I was gonna say I have had very good luck with the full-finger Handups I’ve been using the last few years
I have had Rapha gloves for years and they are still good. The padding is so thin it is unnoticeable
I dig these, but they def don’t last 10 years for my uses. They make it a solid 2 years before seams start to split though, which is pretty decent for the price.
I had to order something else though as they were out of my size this year and mine ones with a few seasons on them had like 3 holes in them. Grabbed these fancier jawns and I’ve been happy with em:
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Ok. I should say that I wear my gloves for several hours a day every day and take them on and off like a dozen times a day so I’m probably putting them through more abuse than the makers intended.
@Alvz, did you say that you’ve had a single pair of giro DND for a decade?
My best luck has been with giro SIV which tend to last almost a year before falling apart but the padding is a bit annoying.
Yeah that’s a LOT of use for bike gloves. Even if you were an everyday commuter that’s just two on/off cycles per day. Your use sounds more like a bike messenger, tho probably still more on/off.
yeah. using them prolly about 10-12 hours a week, washing every other week or so cuz sweat. more recently I stopped using them for winter because they got cold, but once it’s over 60 degrees F i’m back in them.
you sound like you’d be an excellent tester for a glove company!
Been happy with Giro Xen, but you gotta size up. Large was a snug fit and the seams blew in a month or so. Bumped up to extra-large and they’ve been going strong for over a year.
I swapped out my force 2x derailleur for a 1x rival last weekend, in prep for CX nats this weekend. Took it for a ride on local trails until the weather got super biblical. It shifted typically sram until yesterday where by the time I got home it was stuck middle cluster and I was close to getting off and walking at times. I figured I would have to pull out the BB and put in a new rear cable. I took off the rear housing and the cable was still draggy, from inside the chainstay. I pecked away with an Allen key, the chainstay was full of mud… So much for the advantage of internally routed cabling. It then occured to me to look at the bb. I realized that it was actually open to the frame cavity. So muddy water can splash up into the frame and run down into the chainstay where it can collect in such quantities that it will foul your cable. No wonder my BB bearings are dying prematurely. I will see if there is a way to seal the bb cable guide off properly. So heads up, if you have an OPEN UP, don’t ride it in heavy rain. EDIT. Someone just told me the drop chain stay can completely fill up with shit.
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If they meant for you to ride it in the rain, they would have put fender mounts on it! 
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Damn, don’t let it get below freezing!
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There is one under the fork! I will stick to riding from cafe to cafe in the dry.
Really?! I thought Open/Vroomen was stubbornly anti-fender.
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Just get it cleaned out and grab some silicone caulk. Problem solved!
Hell no, they were pimping some grotesque plastic clip-on fenders a while back.
A buddy was doing this until he realised that it was stopping the stuff draining out. Maybe it needs a drain-hole in the drop-stay.
Sounds like it could be more… open.
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