Sportful Giara glove review

It's designed for the gravel bike movement, but can the Sportful Giara glove offer refinement as well as a bit of rough?

Sportful Giara glove
(Image credit: Cycling Studio)
Cycling Weekly Verdict

Designed for off-road adventures, the fit and form is so spot-on with a great balance of padding and grippiness, making the Sportful Giara glove more than adequate for any sort of bike ride.

Reasons to buy
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    Unisex

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    Excellent fit

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    Well balanced and positioned padding

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    Reflective detailing

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    Three colour options

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Reasons to avoid
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    Not all colours available in corresponding Giara clothing range for both sexes

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With gravel-road popularity growing, Sportful has responded to a call for more relaxed clothing with its Giara range and corresponding accessories, which are designed for riders seeking adventure over aero.

>>> 6 of the best gravel bikes & adventure bikes for 2017 

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.

Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 

She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.