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Recently bought a Kids Ride Shotgun seat for my little one which he loves.
His hands get a little cold even on warmer days, so was trying to find some MTB gloves for him, he is 2 1/2.
Found a couple of sites in the US, but cant seem to find much in the UK, anyone got any recommendations.
He has normal gloves but he would like some proper riding gloves like Daddy!!
cheers.
I got gloves for my daughter here - https://www.littlerider.com/
They're pretty good.
It's hard - I searched for ages, made much harder by v inconsistent sizing advice.
Decathlon do some fingerless gloves in small sizes. This was good because you can try them on and they weren't expensive. My boy had some of these from age 3 IIRC, they were good. But obviously fingerless is not ideal if you're buying them for warmth.
There are some kid-focussed Moto-X sites that purport to do kids gloves in really small sizes, but I never pulled the trigger with those so I don't know about quality. Ditto Fox do some youth sizes but I couldn't work out whether they'd fit and they were kind of expensive so I didn't try them.
Now he's 5, he has some of these in the 5-7 size: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124623231749 NB They do a small 2-4 size which might work. The gloves themselves seem decent enough quality, too.
The other option - if it's just for a Shotgun seat I'd probably put him in some normal warm gloves. He doesn't really need to grip the bars, does he?
Aliexpress
Fox do the Youth dirtpaw in XXS, that's what we used when they were tiny.
Nice one cheers all, will take a look at the above when I'm home tonight.
He doesn’t really need to grip the bars, does he?
No in reality he doesnt need to actually grip the bars, so we are currently using these when we need to, just the fact that he wanted his own pair of proper bike gloves i thought id try.
I have some mac ride gloves for my little un.
https://uk.mac-ride.com/products/childrens-mountain-biking-gloves
Good luck getting them on.
+1 for fox dirtpaw. They were a bit too big when she first started wearing them but they're still going strong. The velcro allowed you to wrap around quite a lot of excess material. And they've got a pink fox logo
Halfords do some pretty small gloves for kids.
We've always used kids endura ones.
Our LBS always has loads, so easy to try on & get the right size.
ShredXS would be my first port of call, excellent kit.
Tigo gloves work for us. Daughter was just under 3 and smallest size fitted fine.
Endura
Just bought from Kiddimoto for my daughter.
https://kiddimoto.co.uk/collections/gloves
But also she saw a pair of Endura gloves in Tiso and wanted those too.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Both decent.</span>
Cheers all, went for the little rider ones and also bought him a top.
I nearly ordered the tigo ones but their website said they don't ship to the UK and it wouldn't let me complete the order.
I'll reply back here once they arrive and provide a bit of feedback.
My soon to be 3 year olds are currently wearing Tigo gloves. They seem really well made and are cheap. They both also have their knee pads as well.
Would recommend both as we couldn’t find any other gloves that were anywhere near small enough.
Not sure why Tigo said they don’t ship to the Uk as they are a UK company. The Little Riders look nice and we’re our other option but out of stock when we were buying. We’ll probably get them tops from there when a bit older.
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