Thanks for all the input, hope this thread is useful to others cause its just plain dangerous to ride with half-frozen, unresponsive limbs.  Btw, love the bmw "duck" gloves!

The latex glove + regular insuladed lether gloves thing worked but I'm still scanning the web for a good deal on weatherproof outdoor gloves.  Thanks again!

As I was telling you, last week I traded my vented bike gloves
for my trusty leather gloves with fleece inside plus latex gloves
worn on the inside as insulation, it worked, big difference!  
it's all about layers and keeping the wind out.


Today I got in the mail a pair of Burton Snowboarding gloves I found
on sale for 19 euros that are supposed to be wind and waterproof and
guaranteed to keep your hands warm at down to -20C (-4f), excluding
windshield factor of course.

They are flexible enough to operate all controls, including turn signals
and have a tough kevlar-like palm finish designed for sharp, icy falls
so they should be fine for biking. I got'em in black.

I'll will keep you updated on their performance after I try them a
couple of times this week on my way back from work @ around 0C (32f).

I use a thin goat or pig skin glove inside another larger deer skin glove and tuck the cuffs in my jacket sleeve.

mick wrote on 10/21/10 at 17:11:11:


Or you can makey the weather changey by moving to a warmer clime.

Aloha  Phelonius

Update:

After riding with my new snowboarding gloves for a couple of
nights at 26.6f/-3C @ 45-65mph/100ish kph

- I'm happy to say that these are officially the warmest gloves
I've ever owned and make the ride tolerable.

- but I also noticed that blood is somehow reaching
my fingertips already cold and because of this, at the end,
these gloves are not that much different when compared
with my old leather/fleece gloves.  

...I now need to figure out how to better insulate my forearm
and specially inner elbow, sigh.



Hypothermia meter... No shivering yet!