Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves Review

Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves Reviews

Review score: 9.4/10 – Updated May, 2024

Latest Price: £29.99 – Save 25% (RRP: £39.99)

Take a look now to discover what makes Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves worthy of a review score of 9.4 out of 10.

Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves Review


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Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves features

Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves specs

Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves
Spec 1

Colour: Black, BLACK-RED

Other Gloves found with this Spec: 2

Spec 2

Clothing Size: XXXL, XS, XXL, S

Other Gloves found with this Spec: 1

Spec 3

Gender: Unisex

Other Gloves found with this Spec: 2527

Spec 4

Age Group: Adult

Other Gloves found with this Spec: 4703

Feature 1

Back Material: 82% Polyamide (Nylon), 18% Elastane (Spandex)

Other Gloves found with this feature: 2

Feature 2

Palm Material: 60% Polyamide (Nylon), 40% Polyurethane

Other Gloves found with this feature: 2

Feature 3

Box and roll fingertip construction increases dexterity at your fingertips while reducing bulk

Other Gloves found with this feature: 2

Feature 4

Reinforced palm is abrasion resistant and durable

Other Gloves found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

EVA + GEL padded palm provides shock absorption to prevent fatigue

Other Gloves found with this feature: 1

Feature 6

Optimized for gloves-on use with touchscreen devices

Other Gloves found with this feature: 4

Feature 7

Grippy silicone print on thumbs, forefingers, and palm

Other Gloves found with this feature: 3

Feature 8

Velcro cuff closure at wrist

Other Gloves found with this feature: 2

Feature 9

Reflective logo

Other Gloves found with this feature: 35

Price

£29.99

Number of Reviews

1

Review Score

5 / 5

Average score in category: 3.7/5

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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 Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves 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 Gore Wear 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 Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves.

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 Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £29.99 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 below average at £29.99.

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 116 cost more than Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves and 174 were cheaper.

Cost of Gore Wear products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 122 products from Gore Wear, of which 11 were in the Gloves category.

For now though we’re looking at Gore Wear branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £90.92 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Gore Wear product we found was £10.39 and the highest price we could find from them was £319.99.

Of the 122 from Gore Wear, 102 were more expensive than Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves and 17 were cheaper.

How much are Gore Wear Gloves?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Gore Wear products that are listed in the Gloves category.

The average price of the 11 products that match this search was £39.89, with the cheapest coming in at £18.61 and highest price was £64.99. With the average being £39.89, Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves comes in below average.

7 products that meet this search were more expensive than Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves and 3 were cheaper.


Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves 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 Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.4 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 Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves or another similar product, like Gore Wear C7 Short Pro Gloves reviews or Gore Wear C5 Short Gloves 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 Gore Wear, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.


YouTube Video of Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves reviews.


Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves. 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 9.4/10 overall.


Further product details

  • Product ID 1: 25010795923
  • Product ID 2: 707160UK
  • Brand: Gore Wear
  • Model number: 1.00499E+11
  • RRP: £39.99
  • EAN: 4017912073639
  • Description: Gore Wear C5 Trail GlovesAs durable as it gets without adding any extra weight to your ride, the C5 Trail Gloves from Gore are perfect for a life lived off the beaten track. EVA and gel padding in the palm absorb the shocks and vibrations of riding over rough ground before they cause pain in your hands, but it’s a thin extra layer added to the gloves, so you can still get maximum feedback from the brakes and handlebar. Furthering this is the focus on full dexterity, as represented by the use of a box and roll construction at the fingertips to reduce bulk, while silicone prints improves your grip in all areas of the hand. Reflective logos help catch the eye of other road users, the Velcro® cuff closure lets you find the perfect fit with ease, and touchscreen compatibility makes it easy to stay in control of smartphone and GPS devices without removing your gloves. Back Material: 82% Polyamide (Nylon), 18% Elastane (Spandex)Palm Material: 60% Polyamide (Nylon), 40% PolyurethaneBox and roll fingertip construction increases dexterity at your fingertips while reducing bulkReinforced palm is abrasion resistant and durableEVA + GEL padded palm provides shock absorption to prevent fatigueOptimized for gloves-on use with touchscreen devicesGrippy silicone print on thumbs, forefingers, and palmVelcro cuff closure at wristReflective logoBuy Gore Wear Clothing from Chain Reaction Cycles. The World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Full Category: Clothing > Gloves
  • Savings percentage from RRP: 25%
  • Size: S
  • Unisex
  • 10
  • 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 Gore Wear C5 Trail Gloves included,
Gore Wear M Boxer Shorts reviews, Gore Wear M GWS Boxer Shorts reviews, or we really liked the look of Gore Wear M Women’s Sleeveless Shirt reviews as another alternative.

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