Review on Bar Mitts Cold Weather Handlebar Mittens for Road Bicycles, Compatible with Campy/SRAM/Shimano Shifters and Internally Routed Cables by Sangmin Barrett

My fingers are very, very cold. This is probably because I'm tall, thin, and have long fingers, which doesn't get enough blood flow to my fingers. I recently bought heated gloves that enclose the cold part, but the gloves themselves are thick and limit dexterity. So I happened to read reviews of these bar gloves where people were complaining about how sweaty their palms are even in almost freezing weather. I also saw a YouTube video of a guy who has been cycling pretty much every day for over 20 years and only wears gloves with liners even in negative Fahrenheit. Of course, I was very intrigued and skeptical of these magical-sounding claims. None of that applied to me. At 40-45F my fingers were cold even with lined gloves and at one point even with another layer of thermal gloves underneath those bar gloves. My body felt good and fried, but that uncomfortable feeling of cold biting my fingers remained. If they don't keep my fingers warm in liner gloves at 45F, they're useless to me. Additionally, as others have pointed out, you can't move your arms much and must always be in attack position. . Or expose your fingers to the cold. A rather unpleasant dilemma that causes pain in the palms, wrists and elbows. Of course, this problem is not only specific to these pole gloves, but to pole gloves in general. Overall, the loss of dexterity of even thicker heated gloves is nothing compared to the comfortable warmth they offer. Compared to them, at least for me, these bar mitts don't work at all.