OK - We all have picked up and collected many great tips and tricks for cycling, weather, preventitive maintenence, etc. but there is ONE THING I am totally clueless about here :

 

How do you folks dry out sweaty gloves ?  I have a great pair of warm (lined) gloves

that get really sweaty on my morning commute (like today in the 97% humidity) and

they remain nice and damp all day long and I am not looking forward to riding home

tonight with cold wet hands (esp. since it is supposed to drop 20+ degrees during the day

today).

 

who has a good secret on how to dry these things out ? strange as it may sound

my laptop at work generates a lot of heat; and If I arrange the gloves just right

that kind of drys them out...but there's got to be a better way !  anyone ???

 

thanks in advance

 

Dan

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I have used a hair dryer that I keep in my desk at work, one of those small folding ones. A few minutes in each glove seems to do the trick. 

Do you have a small desktop fan?  If you made creative use of pens and/or binder clips to keep the gloves open, you could put them in front of the fan, then turn it  to a low setting.

I got DryGuy for Christmas. Perfect.

stuff newspaper inside.

or this: http://www.theglovedryer.com 

Trying to think of some sort of absorbent sachet to stick inside...rice?

I stand them up on the induction unit under the window near my desk.

I stuff newspaper inside, including the fingers.  switch them out once or twice for fresh newspapers and you'll notice a considerable difference by your evening commute.  If you feel the newspaper after you remove it from the gloves you can feel how much moister it absorbs.

Layers.  I use relatively thin liner gloves inside a non-insulated shell.  Thin gloves dry quickly, shell doesn't retain moisture.  You can also pack extra dry liners for use with the shell.

thanks to everyone for the great ideas suggested. I knew the solution was out there

Glove liners. Use merino wool or bamboo glove liners, which will absorb 90% of the sweat, and will dry out much faster and easier than the heavy gloves themselves.

For about $30 you could actually pick up two pairs at REI, one for the ride to work, one for the ride home.

Menards has a couple of boot-dryers (that work very well for gloves as well by swapping the included attachments) from $9.99 on sale the other day.

The one for <$10 is battery powered as well as plug-in.  I'd suggest buying the nicer $20 version they have which is plug-in only.  

I don't see how people can live without a boot/glove dryer.  I use mine all the time.

Using a blow-dryer, even with an attachment like the one linked above, is a bit dicey.  High-quality gloves are often made of leathers which can be easily ruined by drying too fast. 

Boot dryers simple move room-temperature air through the boots/gloves and do not dry too quickly.  Drying gloves takes a couple of hours while boots usually take over-night.  

Heat is the enemy to fine garments.  A lot of my specialty gloves cost me up to (and sometimes well over) $100.  My best pair of motorcycle boots were $350.  I wouldn't use heat on them.  A boot dryer is a good investment and one always has dry boots and/or gloves in the morning. 

I rotate between two different pairs.

I got this for Christmas. It's effective and less expensive than many other boot dryers. 

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