GOAT GLOVES, the G.O.A.T. gloves

If you know you want them, skip this blather and go down to the sizing. Most recreational cyclists wear gloves because they’re relatively cheap accessories that flesh out your kit, and they protect your hands in a crash. As risk-compensation factors go, they’re minor violators, and when you’re not crashing, you can wipe your face-sweat off with them, or scratch a face-itch. Even summer gloves like these goat ones add noticeable warmth on barely chilly rides. All riders wear warm gloves in cold weather, but warm weather is another ball of wax, the kind of ball of wax where some people don't want the extra layer of poof and cush between hands and handlebar.  These are the only bike gloves we're aware of that are unpadded, and for most riders most of the time, they’re better for it. Goat leather is thin and tough, so your hands are good in a crash, but you still get a good hand-lock on the bars, a good tactile connection with the bike that you don’t get with padded gloves. It may be a per