Road Cycling Gloves: Yes or No?

The argument that you might crash so wear gloves is absurd. Might as well wear body armour too.

I never wear gloves on my TT bike.

I wear TT gloves (minimal padding and covers wrist) for every other type of riding.

I assume you ride without a helmet? Many MTB do wear body armor…

No, I always ride with a helmet. Because my brain is a lot more important than the skin on my hands, dipshit.

From your user id I assume you rollerski. Do you wear them then? I always do, except I forgot them on a rollerski last fall. Slid out on wet leaves and took a big chunk out of my left palm. Took over a week until I could rollerski comfortably again.