Milwaukee LeatherSH217 Men's Black Leather Gel Padded Palm Fingerless Motorcycle Hand Gloves W/Breathable ‘Mesh Material’

I had the gloves for a few months and they've already started to come apart at the seams.

I use a wheelchair and can really beat up my hands. These fit nicely (xxl) but did leave my hands black the first two times i wore them, hence four stars. Typical made in china stuff here, but they do their job protecting my hands. Slightly irregular.

So I used these for a week at Disney, where I needed them to help me roll a wheelchair around all day for 5 days. Thankfully, my issue is temporary, but I'm unable to walk all day right now, and had to rely on a wheelchair to get around the parks on my planned vacation. I bought these gloves to assist, and they did the job. The leather held, and wore well. They were comfortable, and the least expensive gloves like this I could find. The size fit appropriately. Without these, I'm sure my hands would have been so blistered. These were a huge help!

Please read this to understand why I consider these not worth the money. As I am one who likes to give good reviews, I can't here. My use for these is not for motorcycle riding but rather for use on an online sim racing wheel. Being in long races with the adrenaline that even sim racing brings causes my hands to sweat. I have tried baby powder and other things to compensate. It finally came down to using gloves as funny as that sounds. I used some old leather finger tight rifle gloves until they disintegrated about a month later. I then tried some others and found that I needed fingerless gloves to feel the buttons on the steering wheel so I don't do things like hit the e-brake when trying to key my mic to talk to the other drivers. I tried 4 other types of gloves I had... cotton, Easton leather batting gloves, Thor MX dirt bike gloves and Bell mountain bike gloves all to which I had around the house. All to which are full fingered gloves. I cut the fingers off the Easton gloves and they ended up falling apart even though I tried to sew them around the areas of the fingers I had cut. They are now trash. All of the gloves I have mentioned are size XL and snug as they should be. Now for the review of these gloves. I ordered size L when buying these fingerless gloves. I should have bought size M. They are that big. The thumbs have enough gap in them that I can take my index fingers one knuckle deep and put into the thumb of the gloves when my thumbs are in them without any folding up of the material or twisting my fingers to get them deeper. If I do that I can get almost my whole index fingers in there with my thumbs. Kind of like an 8 year old putting on Daddy's shoes. Of 10 fingers, if I were the QA person at the factory, I would only pass 4... 1 of those reluctantly. I feel I can fairly say this as I have worked production much of my life and worked QA some as well. I am 49 years old. There is a balance of allowing things that aren't perfect to pass. A common, fair and necessary practice in business. The other 6 fingers are not passable. The mesh does not line up flush with the leather where sewn together. Differences from flush setting is anywhere from approximately 1/16" to literally 1/4". The one that is 1/4" is the right middle finger. The leather is obviously pulled to the right which is buckling the leather and the mesh has been pulled from the left to the right and sewn to the leather 1/4" under what should be flush. They meet at almost the middle of the back of the knuckle when they should meet much more to the side. If the leather had been straight, the mesh would have lined up fine. Negligence in factory. Unacceptable passing by QA if any there. There is also thread that is loose causing the gloves to be coming apart. This is how they came out of the plastic when I opened them... All of what I'm saying is. There is a dangling cut edge of the leather that is 15/16" long where the padded part of the leather is sewn to the regular leather on the palm of the left glove, partially cut into where it is sewn so that part isn't really sewn. Maybe 1/16" long. On the right glove there is an area on the back over the back of the middle knuckle where the mesh and the leather are sewn together to which a portion of the leather was cut incorrectly causing the leather to not be sewn to the mesh. There is a 3/4" area along that hem line that is not sewn at all due to this flaw. This will eventually worsen. All That being said I will say that the mesh itself is fair for the product's price range and I'm pleased with the thickness and apparent durability of the leather itself although not satisfied with the durability of the gloves as a whole. The problems with these gloves are due to negligence in production. I believe they will work ok for my use for a fair amount of time but I regret buying them every time I put them on. If I were using them for riding gloves I would definitely buy a better pair for a little more money. I would be more satisfied for a well made pair at twice the price I paid. I would also like to say that I am not disgruntled as I write this. I am being very fair from both production and purchasing points of view.

Mornings my home office is ice cold and my hands are frozen. These have helped me immensely. That said, they're fitting isn't super consistent, each fingers sizing seems to vary randomly. The stretchy part also gives way more and more as you wear them, and the Velcro gives way a bit to. I've had to hand sew them a few times when they've either ripped or the two fabric types started to separate. So long as you don't mind maintaining them they're fine.

Perfect fit

Saves your hands in my wheelchair

I love the look, grip, and padding on these, but the build quality has a lot to be desired. The fit was a little big but that will happen if you're the smaller of a L/XL or a S/M. I wish I had stronger opinions about these but I didn't have enough time with them to form those opinions since the wrist strap ripped halfway off on the second wear.