Five Gloves
About FIVE Gloves
Founded in 2005, In 2005, FIVE Gloves was born, from a desire to develop real expertise and become THE renowned specialist that it is today…with a single, straightforward ambition: Enhance your riding pleasure by offering the most comfortable, safest, and highest-performance gloves possible. Because gloves are the essential link between a rider and their motorcycle. Our main strengths are innovative design, use of the finest materials, impeccable fit, comfort, and premium protection. All of this reflects the essence of our signature statement, “PROTECTION/FIT/DESIGN”. In 20 years, we’ve outfitted several million riders around the world. Whether they’re champions or amateurs, on the road, track, and off- road, for every day, they all say that they prefer riding with FIVE gloves. To understand why, just try a pair.
FIVE at Bikerheadz
Here at Bikerheadz, we stock a range of FIVE motorcycle Gloves
FIVES commitment can be stated in three words: Protection, Fitting, Design.
Features of FIVE Motorcycle Gloves
PROTECTION – because your hands are essential. Imagine having to spend even a single day without using one of your hands due to an injury, even one that’s not serious. The smallest activity would be truly difficult, and the discomfort would be highly distressing. Protecting your hands is crucial. We don’t always think about it, but as a reflex, we tend to put our hands out in front of us if we fall. They are, there-fore, particularly exposed. Our goal is to reduce the risk of specific injuries related to motorcycle riding.
FITTING – because gloves form the link between you and your motorcycle. To truly savor piloting your motorcycle, this connection should be seamless, allowing for perfect responsiveness each time you touch the controls, whether you’re accelerating, braking, or changing direction. Feeling every move at the controls (and, by extension, every movement of your motorcycle) is essential. It’s even further proof of safety. And this should happen with a certain amount of comfort. Our desire is clearly to enhance the enjoyment you feel when riding your motorcycle.
DESIGN – because we consider a functional aesthetic to be especially important. In our view, the shape of each piece that makes up a glove stems from the role it plays in its use (protection, comfort,ventilation, abrasion resistance, etc.). This is why we design and craft each element independently, without using any standard pieces, so that a FIVE glove is exclusive and distinctive. Our designs are often imitated, but never equaled! So, you might as well choose the original, FIVE
We are Glove Specialists
Hands have the particular complexity of being extremely sensitive parts of the body (sensitive to cold, heat, and collisions), highly exposed in case of a fall, and replete with a number of small, fully articulated elements (bones, tendons, muscles, blood vessels). More than anything, it’s through our hands that we experience one of our five senses, the sense of touch. In other words, the very least element of a glove that’s badly designed or wrongly placed is immediately un-comfortable. A badly fitting glove or one that’s not right for your body type or riding style can considerably diminish your riding pleasure, or even ruin what promised to be a great ride, because your attention would be focused on the discomfort rather than the beauty of the landscapes you’re experiencing. A glove should therefore perfectly mold to the curves of your hand as it grips the handlebars and controls and allow for total freedom of movement of each and every joint. This is why our gloves are pre-shaped and why we take care to perfectly position protective elements, just as we do those that enable joint movement. As you can see, you can’t just design a pair of gloves like you do a piece of clothing. The glove is not just a simple extension of your jacket, contrary to what non-specialist brands may lead you to believe. In terms of gloves, the approach has to be even more technical, due to the small size of the pieces assembled, their number, and the freedom of movement of the hand that is hard to obtain, yet indispensable. Because, by definition, layering levels of fabric and protective elements can swiftly end up hindering the mobility of the hand, if real expertise isn’t used. This is why we’ve made the choice to become THE Glove Specialist, because we believe in the virtues of specialisation and expertise. It’s hard to imagine how complex designing an effective, high-performance glove can be. Designing an “aesthetically pleasing” glove, like many brands do, is relatively easy. Creating a glove that’s functional and both elegant, comfortable, and protective, no matter the size, and for mass production, presents a whole other challenge. We dedicate all our efforts and endless hours, day after day, with each passing month and every year, to just one product: gloves! And this is how we can keep developing our expertise and constantly improving the quality of our products
Using the finest components and materials: this is the FIVE hallmark
We utilize optimal technology in our products, which leads us to select renowned technical partners, such as GORE-TEX® (weatherproof membrane), Primaloft®, and Dupont de Nemours® (Kevlar®) Gütermann® (for threads that are durable, yet don’t cut into the skin), and adopt their innovations for our most advanced products.
The development of FIVE gloves is based on real feedback
It’s in collaborating with top-level riders and listening to the needs of and feedback from thousands of users throughout the world that we are able to develop ever more comfortable and protective gloves. We test our gloves under the extreme conditions offered by top-level competition, before we bring them to market. And the innovations we decide to use for racing benefits the amateur products in our range. Our official riders take part in MotoGP, Moto3, Superbike, Supersport, Endurance, Supermoto, Motocross, and Enduro world champion- ships… They wear FIVE gloves on racetracks throughout the world and actively contribute to the evolution of our products. And so, when Michele PIRRO took a spill at over 300 kms/h at Mugello in 2018, and got up without a scratch on his hands, we were truly happy and proud to be his equipment partner. Unwittingly, he helped us study how our gloves perform in a real-life situation, well beyond any tests we carry out in a lab. In the same way, when Peter HICKMAN won the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (the fastest and undoubtedly most dangerous road race in the world) - setting the average speed record at 136 mph, when Dominique AEGERTER becomes double Supersport World Champion in 2021 and 2022, when ANDRIAN HUERTUS became 2024 Supersport World Champion and ANA CARRASCO taking the first ever Women's World Championship in 2024, all of them wearing FIVE gloves, we can’t help thinking that our products do, in fact, deliver the goods for the most demanding riders and athletes. Though riders are at the very heart of our product development strategy, it’s also a matter of passion. Because all of us at FIVE share a love affair with motor sports. In fact, we have several former professional riders now working for us at the office, and we feel blessed to share great friendships with a number of champions, who have worn or still wear our gloves. We’re always proud to see our official riders raising up their trophies and breaking out the champagne on the podium, wearing FIVE gloves, a sign that these gloves have truly done their job during the race. ;) But, above all, we design and make our gloves for our clients. For you, who ride every day or simply for pleasure. Thus, we always listen to you and want to have your feedback on our products, so we can learn from experience and ensure that future generations of our gloves include all these evolutions. Thanks to all of you, who choose to ride in FIVE gloves
