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Hey Bart Miller here with Cycling Strong so I want to talk about a couple things I used in
this race that I did
this last weekend that really helped a ton
now I've never used a company called Bar Mitts before
never had tried their product anything like that but a couple buddies of mine
use
their product out of Canada so where I was building the Fat Bike as everybody knows
I'm sure you saw all the Instagram pictures. If you haven't go to Instagram and check those out
or look at the build that we're doing on the YouTube channel but
as we building the bike I thought man I want to have the best race experience I
possibly can have so
I got the Bar Mitt product and can I just tell you
I'm gonna put that one down right there fo right now these things
are worth every freaking penny my hands
or were so warm, I got a pair of gloves from glacier gloves on
which I'll show you here in just a second and he's right here
and you'll see in the video that I did before I'm sure that they'll be a link to it at
the very end
my face was so cold you can hear me talk It sounds like I came out of the dentist's office
but my hands were sweating like they were soo warm, Felt great so
anyway I wanted to show you this product because it's really easy to put on and off
so has couple velcro things here and it has a zipper on this end
I put 'em on this way cause I think it just looks better
just the way I like it so what you do is unzip everything
take it, put it over everything like that and then right here
it has a little zipper, I just take this little there's a little piece of
neoprene right there slide that into that
spot just like that and then as soon as you got that there
get it in there
pull that in get that up in there so that zipper is hit up inside there
and then I took one of these on each side of this
and I don't think it really matters how you do it but
take it there and I took this one down like that
so that will sit in right there like that so get your hand in here and it feels good
then what I did was I pealed this kinda back and you'll see that there's another
Velcro piece right here that comes up
around the grip velcro that right there inside of there
put that back on there and then that thing is on there Solid. So that it
really keeps you arms warm, hands warm I should say
clear up in to here with the glove inside of there you got plenty a room you can see
clear off the handle bars where ever you want right here is my brake lever
where you see my finger coming off but I'v got all this space for my glove and bulkyness
in here now I will tell you a funny story is with Bar Mitts on
so I was coming around I was flying down this first hill. It was
steep, cranking on the brakes got down at the very end it was really really
slick
and so I kinda started going like off my bike
and I thought I was gonna pull my hand out and these Bar Mitts kept my
hand right inside there as I crashed and the bike right with me, it
was awesome but anyway an amazing product
they do a great job super warm
not super bulky easy to get on, easy to get off
I just wanted to give them a big shout out saying, thank you very much
a great product you've done a very good job in the way you've designed them
and they worked really really well for me on this wonderful Fat bike
Built and it worked terrific, so
I'm gonna grab the glove that I used inside of here so you can kinda see
the size of that glove really quick I have it set right over here
off cameras so I'll just pop it right back in here
so this was the actual glacier glove that I used
and I was a little worried because I don't know
I just didn't think they'd keep me as warm as I wanted to be
boy was I wrong put these things on
and you get your hands inside these and
they come up nice where the are supposed to come up when I got 'em inside of here you cansee
that it fit perfect
and even the glove comes right to the end
I mean these two were matched like it's just awesome it works so well
and I'm sure you can even just ride this glove
also by itself to, it's just a great glove
works extremely well I can't tell you how awesome glacier gloves are
I mean they're just amazing gloves. If you've never tried their gloves give them a try
Bar Mitts,if you've tried them give them a go
you'll be extremely extremely happy with both
you can see inside of here too, I wanted to turn them inside out
because what kind you like
I don't know if you used to see in the old farmers we had gloves and get 'em like this and blow 'em up and
and it pop all the figures up but I don't think I've got enough air to
to do that but I just kinda wanted to show you how nice the cloth
is inside these gloves I mean just they feel so comfortable
and they're such an amazing glove to wear so anyway
Bart Miller Cycling strong don't wanna make this a really long tutorial
totally into Fat bikes right now lovin the fun experiences taht I'm having with
them
as I drop the glove but anyway hope you're enjoying if you have any questions make sure
you
ask us below and I hope you enjoyed this segment and
go get yourself a pair of Bar Mitts and some Glacier gloves. Have a
great winter. See ya