Went to the Infinity & J&S stores on Hangar Lane and tried about 20 pairs of gloves on with no luck.
The shop assistant in J&S kept asking me "how waterproof do you want the gloves to be", which I found slightly irritating.
My response of "I don't want wet hands" just didn't seem to sink in.
So I gave up on the gloves for now and moved onto a waterproof over jacket that I kept spotting, but was not sure if they would go anywhere near a textile bike jacket, especially as I'm not the smallest fella out there.
But I was more than pleasantly surprised when I tried on the same size as my bike jacket and it fitted over it with ease.
I want it for those days when it's like a monsoon like we've been having recently. Not only is it really well made and fully waterproof but they're a bargain price online too. They never had the size and colour I wanted in the shop, as I wanted the hi vis yellow in one size bigger. The sleeves were a fractional longer than the correct size which I prefer when I'm being hammered with rain.
On the way home I popped in to see a friend of mine, and told him where I'd just been.
He then pulls out a new pair of unused fully waterproof gloves for me to try on and they fitted!!! And he gave them to me for free. Result.
These jackets go up to 6XL, and you just order the same size as your bike jacket and it compensates for the extra size, and they are quite generous too. In Black or Yellow.
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