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  • Started 4 years ago by sallyhinch
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  1. sallyhinch
    Member

    After a winter of regular soakings and not always very thorough dryings, both my pairs of winter gloves can only be described as a bit minging.

    The Aldi Crane pair seem as if they can be washed with some ease (machine wash 30deg, line dry) but the washing label on my lobster gloves just says 'do not wash'. So I'm a bit stuck. My options seem to be to wait until they're too revolting to wear and then see what happens if I wash them following the same instructions as the Aldi gloves, or attempt something short of washing that might get them to stop smelling (baking soda? Freeze them? Bake them thoroughly dry on top of the wood burner? Wait until summer and hang them in full sunlight?).

    It's annoying because I have poor circulation and am prone to chilblains so I wear them a lot, especially in the weather we've been having in recent months.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. dessert rat
    Member

    everything goes in the washing machine @ 30 degs regardless of label. Nothing has suffered any damage as yet.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Iain McR

    Why you big ape.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. acsimpson
    Member

    Are they waterproof?

    I've washed all my gloves in the past and the worst things that happen are 1) a waterproof membrane comes out the fingers and you have to spend hours getting it back in 2) They never seem as waterproof afterwards.

    I suppose you could try hand washing them which would at least solve 1).

    If they are waterproof then perhaps they are just aware that the inside is hard to dry and even harder to wash.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. sallyhinch
    Member

    They're not waterproof, just very padded so that the water takes a while to reach your hands. I expect they were conceived for dry cold like ski slopes rather than Dumfries and Galloway.

    From the point of view of the gloves it's hard to see how they would distinguish between being hand washed and being taken out for a bike ride in the pouring rain ...

    I am of the Iain McR school of clothes care normally

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. Morningsider
    Member

    30 degrees, short wash, slow spin, non-bio detergent. What can really go wrong? Unless you have splashed out on mohair lined silk gloves you should be fine.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  7. ARobComp
    Member

    Freezing them should help kill off some bacteria but wouldn't rely on that to deliver complete success

    Posted 4 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I've just sniffed my fifteen year old Altura Shield waterproof gloves which I have never washed.

    Lovely.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  9. Snowy
    Member

    Might be something to do with the loft of the insulation? Perhaps try a soak in the sink with some mild bleach / anti-bac.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  10. CycleCommute.CC
    Member

    I start to feel ill towards the end of a week without washing them. How do you manage to wipe your nose?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  11. mcairney
    Member

    One "life hack" from my goalkeeping days was to put your gloves in an old pillowcase before putting them in the washing machine.
    Note that the material make up of goalie gloves is considerably different from cycling gloves.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  12. fimm
    Member

    I would also guess that the "no washing" is to do with the insulation.
    Are you allowed to dry clean them?!
    Otherwise I would hand wash them gently and try and squeeze them as little as possible - don't wring them out - but get them good and dry afterwards.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  13. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    How do you manage to wipe your nose?

    Well not on my gloves. Snot rockets as required mid-ride, ironed cotton hankie post-ride.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  14. ARobComp
    Member

    Well not on my gloves. Snot rockets as required mid-ride, ironed cotton hankie post-ride.

    I bought some "electric moped" gloves on sale once as they're super windproof and really gertat for scottish winters but also have some sort of corrugated rough material on the back of the hand. I regularly forget that they do not have the nice nose wipey bits that appear on the back of my summer gloves, and attempt to grate my nose off.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  15. bill
    Member

    Snot rockets as required mid-ride

    @IWARTS Some of us have not mastered this yet.
    Snotache is a semi-permanent feature of my winter cycling face.

    I start to feel ill towards the end of a week without washing them.

    I am with @cc.cc on that and wash them weekly (i suppose we won't we shaking hands or hi-fiving after reading this ever again).

    Posted 4 years ago #

  16. ARobComp
    Member

    My dad taught us snot rockets when we were out hiking back in the day on the North York Moors. Pretty much the main thing I took away from our foggy hikes across moorland.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  17. wingpig
    Member

    I sometimes leave my glubs in the zippable or Velcroid pockets of my shorts to get them washed in a slightly less physically disruptive way. I find that no glove claiming to be waterproof remains so for more than a couple of winters even without being washed.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  18. unhurt
    Member

    Unless you have splashed out on mohair lined silk gloves you should be fine.

    @morningsider if only Ronde were still open - I reckon you could have persuaded them to stock this line.

    @Sally I'd go the McR approach. (I only wash bike gloves when I can smell them before they reach my nose, but then they go in on the non-bio ecowash with almost everything else.)

    Posted 4 years ago #

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