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Lomo Winter Cycling Gloves

8
£13.50

VERDICT:

8
10
Good for milder winter days, offering everything you need, for not a lot of cash
Weight: 
79g
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The Lomo Winter Cycling Gloves offer decent performance against the elements of winter. The thin softshell material offers some protection against the wind and rain, while the mesh palm gives plenty of grip on wet bar tape. The price is pretty good too.

  • Pros: Plenty of reflective detailing; not overly bulky
  • Cons: Not warm enough for really cold days; don't keep the rain out for long

These gloves from Lomo have pretty much everything covered from a design point of view.

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Starting at the wrist, you'll find a snug-fitting elasticated cuff that stops any draughts from entering and will slide up inside a jacket or jersey sleeve without issue.

The palm uses a silicone mesh pattern to provide plenty of grip and there also reinforced areas inside the thumb and index finger as well as the outside of the palm to resist wear and tear and damage from crashing, say.

Lomo Winter Cycling Gloves - palm.jpg

The fingertips are compatible with touchscreen devices too.

On the back of the hand the two middle fingers and part of the hand are covered in a reflective material to get you noticed in the dark, particularly useful when signalling to following traffic.

Lomo Winter Cycling Gloves - reflective.jpg

The softshell fabric is said to be waterproof, but I'd go more along the lines of water resistant – while the rain does bead off the material to start with, it doesn't for long and you'll soon get wet.

That isn't too much of a problem as long as the temperature is above around 7°C as the gloves will keep your hands warm. Any lower than that, though, wet or dry, and the Lomos just aren't quite thick enough to deal with the cold without a pair of liner gloves. I found them to work well on mild winter days up to about 12°C, so they will have a bit of crossover into spring and autumn too.

The price of £13.50 is pretty good too, with the majority of winter gloves around the £25 to £50 mark.

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Quality is okay – there are a few stray threads going on here and there – but on the whole it isn't bad, especially for the price.

Lomo Winter Cycling Gloves - back.jpg

They work in a similar sort of temperature range as the Altura Firestorm gloves I've also been wearing which cost £39.99, so on the performance front the Lomos are doing okay.

The Lusso Windtex Terrains also offer decent performance in temperatures similar to the Lomos, but they don't have the smartphone-compatible fingertips for their £30 price tag.

Overall, the Lomos may not be able to cope with properly cold winter temperatures, but they are delivering similar sorts of performance as many others and for a lot less money.

Verdict

Good for milder winter days, offering everything you need, for not a lot of cash

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road.cc test report

Make and model: Lomo Winter Cycling Gloves

Size tested: Large

Tell us what the product is for

Lomo says, "Our full finger Winter Cycling Gloves feature a mesh rubber palm grip with reinforced Amara sections.

"These reinforced sections add durability when resting your hands on the bike hoods.

"The bike gloves are made using wind and waterproof softshell material so they are stretchy and extremely comfortable. They also feature conductive fingertips so you can use your phone with your gloves on.

"These biking gloves are easy to get on an off with an elasticated wrist gasket."

Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?

Lomo lists:

Four sizes available

Elasticated cuff

Reflective fingers

Touchscreen compatible

Reinforced in high wear areas

Rate the product for quality of construction:
 
7/10
Rate the product for performance:
 
7/10
Rate the product for durability:
 
7/10
Rate the product for fit:
 
8/10
Rate the product for sizing:
 
8/10

Lomo's sizing guide stated I'd need a large and they fitted fine.

Rate the product for weight:
 
8/10
Rate the product for comfort:
 
7/10
Rate the product for value:
 
8/10

How easy is the product to care for? How did it respond to being washed?

A basic machine wash has seen no issues.

Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose

They won't get you through everything winter can throw at you, but they'll cover most of it.

Tell us what you particularly liked about the product

A decent package for the money.

Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product

A little rough around the edges.

How does the price compare to that of similar products in the market, including ones recently tested on road.cc?

They work in similar sorts of temperatures and conditions as the Lusso and Altura options mentioned in the review but for a lot less money – more than half the price basically.

Did you enjoy using the product? Yes

Would you consider buying the product? Yes

Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes

Use this box to explain your overall score

The Lomos don't necessarily excel in any one place but they deliver solid performance across the board and at a lot less money than most others we've tested.

Overall rating: 8/10

About the tester

Age: 41  Height: 180cm  Weight: 76kg

I usually ride: This month's test bike  My best bike is: B'Twin Ultra CF draped in the latest bling test components

I've been riding for: Over 20 years  I ride: Every day  I would class myself as: Expert

I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, club rides, sportives, fixed/singlespeed

As part of the tech team here at F-At Digital, senior product reviewer Stu spends the majority of his time writing in-depth reviews for road.cc, off-road.cc and ebiketips using the knowledge gained from testing over 1,500 pieces of kit (plus 100's of bikes) since starting out as a freelancer back in 2009. After first throwing his leg over a race bike back in 2000, Stu's ridden more than 170,000 miles on road, time-trial, track, and gravel bikes, and while he's put his racing days behind him, he still likes to smash the pedals rather than take things easy. With a background in design and engineering, he has an obsession with how things are developed and manufactured, has a borderline fetish for handbuilt metal frames and finds a rim braked road bike very aesthetically pleasing!

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Welsh boy | 4 years ago
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These are OK for cool (6 degrees) days but their waterproofing properties are almost non existant, 10 minutes in light rain and they were wet through, in fact no noticble improvement over my non waterproof gloves.

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