Ordered along with similarly priced Alpinestar gloves and the Racers just felt like a step up in quality. The pinky is slightly too long for me and the bridge to the ring finger stopped me pushing my pinky to the tip of the glove. I've since cut the bridge and they feel much much better.
Good description and related video on the Website. Followed the sizing directions and the gloves fit well. Quality materials and manufacture. Great design, secure with protection (sliders, knuckle e.c.t) well positioned. Good cuff length for transition to your jacket. Enough ventilation to keep the temperature comfortably. Impressed.
Tried on 5 pairs of gloves from £370 to these at £145 ,they were the best fitting most comfortable and good levels of protection,a fantastic glove for the money
These are made very well and provide a good fit and great comfort. Highly recommend them.
They fit like a glove should and are comfy straight out of the box. They have loads of protection built in and feel like they will last and last. Highly recommended....
Appear well made. Stitched together nicely & leather seems good. Very soft, so not quite sure how good they'd be in a crash, but hope not to find out. Armour in the right places. Velcro wrist strap is a bit short, but is secure. Cuff fits & secures nicely over leathers. Bedded in very quickly. Contrary to others, I found sizing about right. I'm normally L or XL. Went for the XL - plenty big enough.
I was a bit worried about getting full length and high protection gloves and lose feeling and grip ability on the bars; however these are just fantastic and are just as flexible and usable as a short thin summer glove thanks to the kangaroo palm.
The protection is highly noticeable and gives me no illusion that if I do come off the bike my hands will be safe no matter what they face.
Highly recommended and SBS excellent service as always.
Just bought my 2nd pair in 10 years... they are so good, and so comfy, i didn't even need to think about buying anything else. quality is perfect and they fit me like they were custom made! highly recommended
I bought these for my partner, to replace the same gloves he's used for over 5 years, but ruined them by constantly getting them soaked in the rain over time. He absolutely loves them! They have soft leather on the palm, are long enough to go over the wrist, flexible and have lots of protection.
These gloves are great. Quality is pretty much perfect, really well made, and feel very protective.
Whilst they fit me near perfectly, they are a snug fit. I followed the size guide, and have 9.5 cm palms roughly. Ordered a medium. They fit me very snugly, but I have long skinny hands.
Those with more meat on them might need to go up a size.
Minor gripes: thumbs seem a bit long, but I have this problem with all gloves bar A*s to be fair. The circular wrist armour doesn't exactly line up with the bone on my wrist, but then these aren't custom made, so I can't hold that against them.
Fit is comfortable out of the bag, I imagine they will get even better when I have worn them in a bit. I'd have no problem doing a longer day trip in them straight away though.
Fit easily over my leathers, look the business, feel reassuringly protective, comfortable. Great product.
Service was asking as usual from SBS 10/10.
Had to go up from Laarge to 3xl on these gloves even though my summer Racer gloves from a few years back are just large....but free mail back is a saviour....
Great service.
Important to get these to fit correctly
I tried XL and 2 XL and still too tight to make a fist and 3 rd finger went numb..... So 3xl it had to be.
Buying a new pair of gloves is never a simple process as some are to tight, too big or take ages to brake in. I saw a review of these gloves and wanted a new pair for this seasons track days, so went ahead and ordered with a nice little 10% discount code from SBS. I am normally a standard XL but they came up small so got the XXL and they fitted perfect, so if you order online, go 1 size up. I am really impressed with the overall quality, stitching and feel. The Kangaroo leather palm is supple and comfortable from the off and I can honestly say that they were broken in halfway through their first ride out, I was instantly impressed and look forward really giving them some stick, if the lousy weather actually clears up enough to get the track bike out. Bottom line is that I am really pleased with my purchase and would 100% percent recommend them to any rider looking for a top drawer good value glove.
This is my 2nd pair, the first having lasted almost 10 years. A tight fit to start but this will ease with use. After trying various others at this price point nothing quite matched the feel of these gloves. I also have some Gortex Racers which are slightly more cumbersome but brilliant also.
These are very well made and fit great, they broke in really quickly and are really comfy.
They're not the coolest of gloves as they have a liner of sorts, and the vents on the fingers only work if you have your fingers on the levers, but they more than make up for it in the amount of armour.
They're covered in armour, including the Knox scaphoid protectors and have the linked pinky finger. The gauntlet is a decent size and fits over my leather jacket cuffs well.
Having tried a number of different gloves, this one stands out. Very sturdy, comfortable and it fits like a glove on both me and my partner, due to the clever fastening.
Gloves measured by palm width (excluding thumb)
| XS | S | M | L | XL | 2XL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PALM | 6-6.5cm | 7-7.5cm | 8-8.5cm | 9-9.5cm | 10-10.5cm | 11-11.5cm |
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