Valheru Rides!

As anyone will know who has followed my ramblings online in the past few months, I have a bit of a thing for wearing different motorcycle gloves, in different conditions versus just having something that is multifunctional. I’ve not always had the best of luck in the past as some of you might remember, most recently with these gloves I had purchased from Texspeed. I was a bit wary considering they also seem to be utilised by a certain genre of riders and I didn’t want to get hit by the hipster tax.

So straight out of the packet the Rebel gloves smelt immediately of leather, I’m not one of ‘those people’ if you catch my drift, but at the same time I think that’s generally a pretty good sign that your leather goods are authentic when you get that smell waft out of the bag, especially considering the bad experience I had before. They were a tad stiff, but also is to be expected considering the claim they were 100% full grain leather.

Now obviously I am a man of science so I did what any responsible blogger should do in this situation, test them!

So I rode for just under 4 hours/193 miles to check how they felt, because that’s what any normal biker would do in this situation.

I am happy to report that the trip softened them quite a bit (but not too much to be useless) so there was a great blend of comfort, and the increased feedback by having a thinner and more tactile set of gloves. We hit high winds and a splattering of rain part of the way back on the A1M and I’m happy to report that my hands remained dry throughout and although the wind mitigation wasn’t quite as much as I would have liked I would like to point out I didn’t have numb fingers. I’m also utilising these as a mid season set of gloves, if I’d wanted my chunky Oxford thermal gloves (which in mid season feels like riding with oven mitts and makes me sweat) I’d have worn them.

For anyone who is interested in seeing them in action there’s a short video of us brarping through the countryside (and through a ford).

They were just as useful when I spent a good few days riding around the south of downs in early September too and I kept wearing them on my commute until mid/late October 2025. While I do accept that I do live in the mildest part of the UK, that should give you a rough indication of the versatility of the gloves.

However I’ve yet to answer the key question, as the gloves cost me £80 (no freebies or promo deals here!) with free carriage, are they worth it? Well frankly yes I think they were, and I will probably get a set of their perforated gloves when they come out too, watch this space for those.