Giro Lusso Cycling Glove - 2009

These are nice gloves with very supple leather, stylish looks, etc. Within 2-3 hours my first pair developed a small hole in the stitching/seam where the thumb leather section meets the palm leather section - roughly where the lowest technogel pad is shown in the photo above. (Not that this is a different seam from the other reviewer...) My LBS was accomodating and let me try another pair, just in case I got a lemon. Within 2 hours on my next ride, an even larger hole developed - in the same seam, just lower down on the glove this time. I have used several gloves before these (LG, Castelli) and never had a seam separate like this. While they are very nice looking/feeling gloves, it is a total joke that they do not last a single ride. I will be exchanging these and will try something else. Avoid.

These gloves are awesome!! Great feel and grip on the bars. Nice fit and feel good even when it's hot. I've had mine for about a month and noticed some small holes forming on the terry thumb fabric that borders the leather. Looks like the stitch is too much for the soft fabric. A friend of mine had the same problem and returned them to his LBS. Exchanged for a new pair with no problems with the thumb. But then when he went on his daily commute to work the next day he noticed the same holes forming! Hopefully giro can fix the problem with the stitch and start a new batch. All in all these are still the nicest pair of gloves I've owned and would still recommend them to anyone. Just be careful how those holes develop on the thumbs!

These are the best gloves I've had in ages. The padding on these gloves is reasonably sparse, giving you very good grip and feel, but still very effective. The positioning of the padding is just to my liking and is definitely designed around road drop bars, with good padding at the base of the thumb for riding the hoods, which many gloves lack. A nice, open back and velcro closure makes them easy to take off (and makes for weird tan lines) and a rubberized pull tab on the wrist is sizable enough to get with your teeth so you can get 'em on one-handed. The construction is soft, supple leather, with some synthetic mesh panels between the fingers, which makes them surprisingly cozy on hot days. Washing them takes some effort but mine are still very adequately Euro-pro white (I use a bit of dish soap and cool water, then let the gloves dry on my hands for a while to maintain shape, and this has worked well). Fit is obviously a very personal thing, so definitely go try them on somewhere before dropping this sort of cash, but I couldn't be happier in this department. For the price I'm expecting some serious milage out of these, but I've definitely put enough milage on them already to have killed lesser gloves and they seem no worse for the wear, so the future looks bright. These seem to be a nice example of a high-end piece of kit that actually gives you some return on the investment not just in terms of style, but also in function and longevity.