Giro LX Mitts Reviews
Review score: 9.3/10 – Updated November, 2024
Latest Price: £55.99 – Save 20% (RRP: £69.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Giro LX Mitts worthy of a review score of 9.3 out of 10.
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Giro LX Mitts features
Quality
Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Gloves. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Giro LX Mitts.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Giro LX Mitts is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.
Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Gloves. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.
There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Gloves. Brands like Giro are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.
Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Gloves category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.
Comparing Prices
Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Gloves.
It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.
Price of Giro LX Mitts
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Giro LX Mitts.
We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Giro LX Mitts was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £55.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.2 out of 10 for price.
Average price of Gloves
Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Gloves.
We found 295 in the Gloves category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £30.85, making it above average at £55.99.
It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Gloves. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £110.00, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £10.00.
With 295 products available we worked out that 21 cost more than Giro LX Mitts and 273 were cheaper.
Cost of Giro products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 176 products from Giro, of which 10 were in the Gloves category.
For now though we’re looking at Giro branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £95.21 making this product below average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Giro product we found was £5.40 and the highest price we could find from them was £290.00.
Of the 176 from Giro, 116 were more expensive than Giro LX Mitts and 57 were cheaper.
How much are Giro Gloves?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Giro products that are listed in the Gloves category.
The average price of the 10 products that match this search was £23.19, with the cheapest coming in at £12.00 and highest price was £55.99. With the average being £23.19, Giro LX Mitts comes in above average.
0 products that meet this search were more expensive than Giro LX Mitts and 9 were cheaper.
Giro LX Mitts Reviews
Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.
There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.
1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.
2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.
Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Giro LX Mitts reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Giro LX Mitts, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.2 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Gloves category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 3.7 out of 5.
Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Giro LX Mitts or another similar product, like Giro Strade Dure Supergel Mitts reviews or Giro Studio EWS Custom Tech Tee 2020 reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Gloves.
Brand
As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Gloves. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Giro, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Giro LX Mitts
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Giro LX Mitts reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Giro LX Mitts. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.3/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010794185
- Product ID 2: 631081UK
- Brand: Giro
- Model number: GI19LXS8L
- RRP: £69.99
- EAN: 768686682698
- Description: Giro LX MittsGive your hands the luxury they deserve for taking care of you at the bars with the LX Mitts from Giro. Ultra-thin Technogel padding sits in the palm and defends you against painful vibrations and shocks across longer rides, and the leather that sits there is beautifully soft Pittards® leather, vented for the ultimate in breathable comfort.Meanwhile the back of the gloves features a highly absorbent microfiber wiping surface to help you deal with a sweaty brow, and the sonic-welded pull tab here makes the mitts dead easy to get on and off. They’re wonderfully durable too thanks to double-stitched seams (so they’re not going to fall apart in the washing machine), and the Super Fit™ engineering along with the Velcro closure means they will adapt to your own hand with ease. These really are the complete package for anyone looking to take their ride to the next level.Features:Padding Material: 100% PolyurethanePalm Material: 100% LeatherTop Material: 95% Leather, 5% Other FibresSupple, vented Pittards® leatherUpdated design with increased durabilityHighly absorbent microfiber wiping surfaceLow-profile Velcro® closureSuper Fit™ engineered three-panel designDouble-stitched seams increase durabilitySonic-welded pull tab3mm Technogel paddingBuy Giro Clothing from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Clothing > Gloves
- Savings percentage from RRP: 20%
- Size: L
- Unisex
- 14
- Adult
Other options for Gloves
As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Gloves. 295 in fact.
A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Giro LX Mitts included,
Giro Women’s Studio EWS Custom Tech Tee 2020 reviews, Giro Studio Nightmares Tech Tee 2020 reviews, or we really liked the look of Giro SPF30 Ultralight Skull Cap reviews as another alternative.