Gloves
Browse new and used BMX gloves for sale from riders across the UK. The category covers full-finger gloves for street, park, dirt and race riding, from single-layer palms that keep the feel of the bars and lever to race pairs with a moulded knuckle guard and silicone fingertip grip. Sizing runs from youth XS to adult XXL and differs between brands, so work from the palm measurement in the listing rather than the letter on the label.
What are BMX gloves and how do I choose between them?
Street and park riders mostly wear a thin full-finger glove: one layer of synthetic leather across the palm, no gel, so grip feel and lever feel stay intact when your hands move around the bars. Race gloves add a knuckle guard, a longer cuff and a slightly tougher palm for gate starts and dirt. Winter versions add a brushed lining, which costs you feel through the grips. Fist Handwear, Fox, Answer, Troy Lee Designs and Shadow Conspiracy all appear regularly in listings.
How do BMX gloves differ from mountain bike and road gloves?
Road mitts are fingerless with gel pads over the ulnar side of the palm for hours in one hand position. Mountain bike gloves are full-finger but usually carry light palm padding and touchscreen fingertips. BMX gloves stay deliberately unpadded because your hands shift constantly on wide bars, and padding bunches under a flanged grip. A slim trail glove crosses over fine; a gel-palmed one does not.
What wears out on used BMX gloves?
The palm thins and goes shiny in the web between thumb and index finger, where the grip and brake lever sit. Seams split first at the base of the thumb and across the fingertips, and the silicone or rubber fingertip print rubs away long before the fabric does. Check the hook-and-loop cuff closure too: once it is packed with grit it stops holding, and stretched cuff elastic lets the glove creep off in a slide. Ask the seller for a palm-up photo and a close shot of the fingertips.
What is a fair price for a used pair, and when should you buy new?
The best buys are unworn pairs bought in the wrong size, which usually go for around half of new. A pair ridden for a season with an intact palm is worth about a third. Anything with a thin patch, a lifted seam or a worn-through fingertip will blow out on the first slide, and gloves are the cheapest item in your BMX kit, so buy new at that point rather than saving a few pounds.
Do gloves actually protect your hands?
They take the abrasion in a hands-first slide and stop knuckles catching on the bars, but they carry no impact rating and a knuckle guard is there for roost and bar strikes rather than falls. Riders who ride ramps and trails treat gloves as the layer that saves skin, and put the money for injury prevention into body armour and a helmet.