Anyone have any recommendations for ‘bar mitts’ for road bikes so you can ride in cold weather for a long time without your hands freezing? My friends like to do a few long outdoor rides in Dec-Feb here in Norcal where the weather is permissive, but on mtn climbs, we’ve had our hands seriously frozen even with winter gloves and a liner layer underneath.
Bar mitts that work would make it a lot nicer. Also, if you’ve had any experience with those USB-warming gloves I’d be interested too - particularly in how you wash/clean them if needed.
7r Bags make excellent Pogies that fit road and mtb bikes….. keep my hands toasty in -10C and colder commutes in Finnish winters
My ghetto solution to commuting in subzero (-14degrees was my record) where I had an annoying 2km climb out the door, and then immediately followed by a 3km descent - so you got warm/sweaty and then instantly froze was cheapo wool linters inside gore windstopper outer gloves (they were technically inner gloves for ice climbing and designed to go inside massive mitts) but then put my fingers in little plastic liners between the wool glove and the windstopper. Same with the socks, 2 layers of socks, but a sandwich bag over toes between sock layers. And, ahem, a third sandwich bag positioned to protect the lunchbox, as frostbite there was very much not wanted. The fingers I used the wrappers that plastic knives and forks came in that you’d get with ready meals. Now you don’t see those much, and so were hard to find, I just moved to NZ and avoid the cold…… 
Hah - that’s too ghetto for me, I’ll stick with the Pogies, thx
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One of the guys I sued to ride with wore mittens - he had bad circulation and so struggled with cold fingers. But he also wore a dentists mirror taped to the side of his helmet and was involved in every single crash in the bunch. The expression “Don’t be like Martin” was both common and wise, and so I just couldn’t ever do mittens just on that basis.
I commute on a motorbike and the heated grips there are an absolute game changer in enjoying a ride or it being absolute hell - safety too. So regardless of how you do it, even if you do end up looking like a lobster man, then fully support the method that works.
Actually, jsut remembered, I have a pair of casteli gloves that are a bit like wetsuit material that are great when it’s wet and coldish - so raining and 5 -15 degrees. Those as liners to the windstopper layer may work well. The Diluvio glove. I also see they do a good range of other winter gloves, worth a look? Winter Cycling Men - Castelli Cycling
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