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I have vascular problems in my hands and feet. I ride 365 in Chicago, sometimes in 10 Deg F or colder weather. I probably have about 10 different pairs of gloves, liners, etc. I've tried just about everything over the last 22 years, including Pearl Izumi Lobsters.

These are warm and well made. Grip is good. Inner liner makes a good warmer weather glove.

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I wish I could omit the star rating here because I didn't end up using these gloves, I'm returning them, but I wanted to post a review to say that inside each "lobster claw", the fingers are still separated there's cloth between the two fingers in each "claw" that keep your fingers separate. It's thick enough that you can't really rub your fingers together. And I don't really understand why they would do that.

I bought them on the basis of the review that said they're the warmest gloves for cycling, even including the Pearl Izumi lobster gloves, but I'm returning them because the Pearl Izumi lobster gloves don't separate the fingers like that your index + middle fingers are touching and so are your ring + pinky. My hands get very cold in cold weather and the only thing that really helps is insulation + skin contact between fingers, being able to rub fingers together when they're cold. I wear heavy-duty mittens for snowboarding for that reason, but obviously can't bike in full mittens since I need to operate shifters and brakes.

This seems like a really questionable design decision, and I'm sitting here holding both the Pearls and these Giros and the insulation seems identical weight, but the Pearls let my fingers touch.

Buyer beware.

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Like the other reviewer, I am also in Chicago.

I wanted to hold off reviewing these until I had the chance to try them in 'extreme' cold. Obviously, the entire country was in some sort of warm spell up until last week, so I had to delay.

At this point, I've used these gloves in a pretty wide range of temperatures. As for their claims of being good down to 15 degrees farenheit, I believe they made good. My only guess of some people complaining may be due to poorer circulation or numbness in hands from bar position, which will expedite the feeling of cold in the hands.

My ride in this morning was 8*F, and my fingers started to get cold around mile 10 (or about 35 minutes in.) I think the big killer is the wind. Obviously Chicago gets its fair share of windy days, and in the winter, it can be brutal. What tends to help is the liner of these gloves. Actually, the liner may end up being a good glove for temperatures above 45*F or so, as it is fairly windproof in itself. As for the entire glove set itself, I've tried it in 8*, 15*, 25* 40*.

Glove sizing seemed pretty good for me. If you go to Giro's website, they have this cool tool where you can print out a template and place your hand on it to determine your glove size. Once I got my gloves, I found it to be an accurate though snug fit.

It appears the pricing on my particular size went up, but I'd have to say these are still pretty good for the money. I have tried on Specialized and PI AmFib gloves in the stores, but not in real world applications. So far, I'm not unhappy with my Giros at all, so I have no reason to seek out other similarly priced gloves. Honestly, I feel that there is only so much a glove can do up until a certain temperature point. At around 0* F, it's the point of being REALLY cold, and I'm unaware of a bicycle specific glove that will keep you absolutely toasty in those conditions.

Anyhow. 4/5 , would buy again.

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I bought these a couple of years ago. I ended up throwing them away and going back to my old regular (non-cycling) leather and thinsulate gloves. I loved the idea of these gloves, but they are made too short in the fingers to get full dexterity when changing gears or braking. Also, as others have said, your fingers are separated inside the gloves, which kinda defeats the purpose of the lobster claw design. Also, the insulation is just not enough for really cold days, and I don't even live in a really cold climate.

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1st As with helmets, giro's gloves are always too small, so if you're a large, get an extra large. I rode my bike today from queens to Brooklyn on a cold night with wind and my fingers froze a bit. THey are well built gloves -though they don't have a pad for wiping your nosebut they seem to fail in very cold weather. lobster style is great and really worth it if you're making long trips (so you can change positions on your handlebar) but for breaking is almost the same as having mittens.