Basket-style gloves

Is there anything more uncomfortable than slipping into wet or sweaty gloves in winter? Hardly likely. It is even better to share fate with a swimmer who puts on a damp, cold bathing suit and gets into the water with goosebumps. The swimming trunks are there specifically to get wet. A damp, cold glove, on the other hand, resists all senses. You don’t want to start the day with wet gloves. And definitely not going on a hike, bike or ski tour. Gloves should feel cozy and protect hands from the cold and the adversities of winter.

Wind and waterproof, with thermal or heating function – these are the promises of the industry. The outdoor industry is probably a big part of why people always want handguards to be dry. Comfortably warm and breathable. But what do you do when, in snow and rain, even the thickest, water-repellent ski gloves get soaked through? When they hang down like a wet rag and the thermal fleece becomes thinner and thinner so that your middle fingertips freeze white in it?

When you get home, that doesn’t bother you a bit: straight away you just want to get rid of your wet things and surround yourself with cozy warmth. The dripping gloves end up carelessly in some corner, as if you never want to wear them again.

The next day you rummage through them – yes, you can guess and smell it – musty and wet. Oh, didn’t anyone take pity on them and hang them up, the mittens and gloves, so they wouldn’t be modern and quickly ready for use again?

We would all like to. But the clothes hooks in the cloakroom are always tightly hung. And dig out the rickety drying rack? No lust. It often gets in the way.

But what to do with the wet gloves? Throw it on the floor next to your shoes? Not a good idea. Put on the heater to dry? Better not, some models are very sensitive. Leather gloves shrink to about miniature size and become hard.

As is so often the case in life, the simple solution is very close at hand: in the garage or in the basement, the gloves can be taken apart in the bicycle basket immediately after a bike ride. A wicker basket is not recommended. In a metal or aluminum mesh, on the other hand, the hand warmers dry by the next day. The bicycle basket has similar advantages to a drying rack, but it is much more space-saving and has the great advantage that it is usually not already occupied with other things.

And there is another positive effect. Gloves have the nasty habit that all complementary goods have in common – including, for example, left and right slippers – that they only appear individually when you need them. But a glove alone brings little joy.

And so, this is where the bike basket comes in again. Because this accommodates the hand warmers overnight in its clear version, so that you don’t have to look for them for long if you want to put them on again the next day.