Originally published in WebBikeWorld
Date: May 2023
After years of daily use (some might even call it abuse), I finally had to retire my RST TracTech Evo full-gauntlet gloves in early 2020. They had been my go-to pair through everything Mumbai threw at me, until one developed a sizable hole in the palm.
In the interim, I switched to a convenient short-cuff pair from Rynox, knowing that proper, full-gauntlet protection would be a near-future necessity. That need was met with the arrival of the Alpinestars SP-8 V3. I ordered them from Revzilla over the holiday season, and after four months and several thousand kilometers of use, here’s how they’ve performed.