The Dirtpaw performs above its price range. It features padded palm construction, flex-point comfort and grittyToughness. Bold prints matchThe 180/HC line. Hook and loop closuresUpdated with Pawtector-series chassis upgrades.
Submitted by
CoCo149
a Cross Country Rider
from Columbia, SC, USA
Date Reviewed: April 4, 2012
Strengths: Perfect fit. I have odd-shaped hands and these gloves conformed very well.
Durability. I've had these for a year. I've ridden about 1,500 miles with them, wrecked dozens of times with no cuts to my hands, I use them as my shooting gloves, and I even wore them through Tough Mudder. Thus far, the only damage is one of the rubber sections on the knuckles has started to come unglued.
Weaknesses: Doesn't have the terry cloth sweat wipe section that other riding gloves have.
Bottom Line:
Overall these are excellent gloves. They're very comfortable and they offer excellent protection. If I ever wear these out I will be buying an identical pair.
Submitted by
airdonut41
a Cross Country Rider
from UPark, PA
Date Reviewed: March 20, 2011
Strengths: Simple, comfortable, and breathe well. I have used these in all seasons and found them to be a pretty solid choice (obviously they're not great in the winter).
Weaknesses: The sizing on these is very strange. I ordered a medium after checking to confirm that my hand size fell in the center of the medium measurement. I got them and they were almost too tight for my forefinger to reach the brakes. After a couple weeks they stretched out and are perfect now, but those first few rides were a little rough.
Bottom Line:
I would order a size larger than normal. Other than that, if you want a no frills durable glove that breathes well, the dirtpaw is a good choice. Camplosion looks pretty sick, for the record
Submitted by
ACC
a Weekend Warrior
from quito, equador
Date Reviewed: March 16, 2011
Strengths: looks good
Weaknesses: insulations
Bottom Line:
I use these gloves to ride my motorcycle in the city, they work well. The only aspect I would consider for my next gloves is the insulations for the rain. These get wet easily and take couple hours to get dry.
Submitted by
DHmonkey123
a Downhiller
from San Anselmo, Marin, California
Date Reviewed: February 23, 2010
Strengths: strong, cool looking, comfortable, protective, and well vented
Weaknesses: got a hole ripped in them after 5 months but it's barely noticeable.
Bottom Line:
These are the best gloves you can get. the kept me cool in dead summer. they killed the guy down the street who says he hates life lol jk bout that last part.
Submitted by
Piledriver
a Weekend Warrior
from Sacramento,CA,USA
Date Reviewed: September 14, 2009
Strengths: Decent price.
The seem to fit exceptionally well compared to the other brands I've tried on.
Weaknesses: A bigger pad to wipe the "monkey splunge" off your forehead would be nice.
Bottom Line:
I'm not a Clydesdale but the stitches have held up under my 200 pound body...so far.
Great gloves in general.
Who knows what kind of quality control corporations keep but
I ride every other day and haven't experienced the problems some of the other reviewers have.Take a chance and try them they may work for you as well as they have for me.
Similar Products Used: Haven't used gloves until recently,that's when i started remembering how many times gravel got embedded in my hands as a kid.Good times-Not.
Bike Setup: Giant Sedona DX with some upgraded bobbits&widgets.
Strengths: Cool looks, well made (not including rubber that fells of).
Weaknesses: Rubber on finger come of after a few rides, it’s glued and simply does not hold. Very slippery inside.
Bottom Line:
Very poor product. Rubber on finger that is supposed to help keep fingers on brake levers fells of very quickly. But the biggest problem is that event thou my dirtpaws are a perfect fit somehow the inside of the glow is so slippery that my hand slides inside the glows and when my hands get sweaty it becomes very difficult to have a secure grip on handlebars. I would say that this product is dangerous.
Well made and cool looking but made by people who never used it in a practical environment... is good for riding around park but not for MTB.
Similar Products Used: 661 nasty - so much better than fox
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Submitted by
Sapporo Tom
a Cross Country Rider
from sapporo
Date Reviewed: July 12, 2009
Strengths: comfortable fit, knuckle protection, well constructed, cool lookn
Weaknesses: none I'm aware of.
Bottom Line:
saw these at the LBS got them and was pleasantly suprised how well they are holding up. no signs of wear'n tear and I wash them after almost every ride too(some cheap gloves cant take it cardboard like fake leather?that wears/melts thru)Like the knuckle protection/soft rubber that flexz well and stops those knuckle pings from the sasa(bamboo like tall grass)that rules the woods here in Hokkaido. Cmftble glove too(8 hrs longest ride in them)! OH, mine are BLACK not the color in the picture up top.
Weaknesses: Crap manufacturing. These gloves literally fall apart off the rack. The rubber on the knuckles is glued on; it comes off if you bend the fingers too much. The stretchy material in the fingers also becomes frayed and thinned when it touches the velcro, something you really can't avoid lest you be conscience of how you remove your gloves. I feel like the gloves will rip if I pull them off too hard.
Bottom Line:
Fox is 100% name. They should have taken some Charmin double-ply, made it into a glove shape, and sold it as Fox dirtpaws.
Submitted by
jonbyron
a Cross Country Rider
from Jackson, OH
Date Reviewed: February 7, 2009
Strengths: Comfortable, hold up very well, not too hot, dry fairly quickly
Weaknesses: could use a bit more padding as they're a mountain bike glove and dont really have any
Bottom Line:
ive rode all summer and winter with these gloves (obviously layered in cold) and they've held up brilliantly. i normally ride single speed on trails with a lot of steady climbing, so im out of the saddle pulling the majority of my rides. the gloves have no holes, show little wear actually, and are still going strong.
Bike Setup: monocog 29, h bars, discs, stuffed hedgehog
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Submitted by
Dial Tone
a Weekend Warrior
from Southern California, USA
Date Reviewed: October 25, 2008
Strengths: Price point, breathable, grippy
Weaknesses: Lycra snags on Velcro.
Bottom Line:
The Dirtpaw though made for MotoX, its great for MTB use. The pricepoint is great, the glove is breathable and is grippy. One drawback though is that the lycra on the fingers (especially the index fingers) snags on the Velcro closure.
I love this glove so much I bought another pair in another color. I'm inbetween sizes and the XXL is too big while the XL is snug. I'll find out if the seams hold out from the tighter fit.
