What about Gloves?
 

What gloves do you use for long-distance touring? Is there a set of 'do it all' gloves or do you always take a set of summer gloves and a pair for winter? I try to be as lightweight as possible so if anyone could recommend a set of gloves which would be somewhere in the middle of those great dirty oven mitts and the vented MX style gloves that'd be great.

Cheers
rtw

Deer skin welder's gloves about $30 US

I really like the Vanson perforated engineer glove. In the winter I wear a Gortex mitten or glove shell over them.

I use whatever quality gloves are on super closeout prices on Ebay. Right now go a set of Castle X perforated leather MSRP $70 got them for $14. Winter I use smowmobile gloves bought in summer at closeout.

Depends where you are or where you are going :)
During my RTW I used summer gloves (dirt bike gloves which had knuckle protection) and carried goretex gloves for cooler climate.

I was really surprised how little time these gloves will last... I used around 5 summer gloves during the trip!
For me it is extremely important that my gloves have some protection (been down often enough that I know protection works)... :scooter:

Klim Dakar when it's warm and dry. Sealskins waterproof MTB gloves when it's wet and MSR Coldpro snowmobile gloves when it's cold and wet.

I used Sealskinz when it got really cold but found vented summer gloves were fine for most of the time during in my travels around South America. I liked the Sealskinz but glad I never went for a slide in them. The only times I wished I had heated grips/better gloves were in Patagonia in March (heated everything!) and the odd, high pass in Bolivia. I think I'll just go for summer gloves but buy a pair of these for the high passes and/or heavy rain - I found them accidentally before. They get good reviews. You just wear them over the top of your normal riding gloves. They look awkward as f--- but if you only use them now and again that's not too bad.

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Mitts aregreat cold wet solution.
I mostly wear good vented dirt bike type
gloves but with palm Padding , knuckle guards.

I also carry silk liners to go under
3 finger mitts.

Heated grips not much help on low
Output bike.

So always two pair plus liners