Grand Tour Gloves

The Rapha Grand Tour Gloves are made from African Hair Sheep leather. The finest available, the result is the most durable, comfortable and stylish cycling mitts in the world.

Grand Tour Gloves

Rapha’s Grand Tour Gloves are the ultimate glove for the serious road cyclist. Made from super soft and breathable African Hair Sheep leather, they offer the confidence and feel of cycling bare-handed but with the highest levels of protection and comfort.

The leather is cut by skilled craftsmen, worked by hand for its characteristic texture and suppleness. The gloves are breathable and the natural fibre wicks sweat extremely effectively.

The gloves have road-specific padding with extra padding around the thumb and forefinger for those long hours spent riding on the hoods. Slim and unobtrusive, this high-density foam offers excellent shock absorption and control. Rapha’s Grand Tour Gloves are double stitched at key wear points for reinforcement and are fastened at the cuff with a velcro strap.

Leather gloves look and feel beautiful and get better with age. Buy them slightly tight and they will stretch to the shape of your hands for a perfect fit.

Reviews:

"…and you have what arguably is the ultimate cycling glove. Certainly these say PRO even if our legs and bike handling do not. Rapha doesn’t stipulate any bar tape restrictions but these should come with a box of white tape and a white-tape-or-else warranty."
– Velodramatic

"I was in Normandy when one of the guys I used to race with in Belgium came up to me and said: 'Cool gloves, man… like Merckx!' You kinda catch people looking sideways or doing a double take when they see them, I guess because they're so unlike any other gloves around. Very comfortable, they actually get better with use."
– Kristian House, British National Road Race Champion 2009