Dominic porter

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since January 13, 2001

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January 13, 2001, on Bicycles:
I'm what you might call stupid. The places I ride my bike and what my bike looks like after a ride would probably scare you. Anyway I don't belive in gloves for biking, probably because I couldn't do the things I do with such a loss of control. I did buy gloves. Because it gets kind of cold here in midwinter in Montreal. Imagine the ancient scenario where you stick your tongue on an exposed piece of frigid metal. Now, your fingers are are grabbing on to brake levers that are below the ambient temperature of -4F (or -20C for those more practical people) and you can see that gloves can come in handy. Specialized ( http://www.specialized.com/ )(big bike company) notes that BMX'ers don't experience the same hand numbness as other bikers so I figure that since I started off with a BMX (that cost me $20Canadian) I didn't have the same problems when I moved to a mountain bike. You'd be quite surprised though at how important grip choice is in avoiding blisters and calouses and fatigue and n...