Spenco Ironman Gloves
I bought the Spenco Ironman Gloves ($35) on the strength of the
Roadbikerider.com review. I'm not sure if I've been hard on the gloves or if they just don't work as well as I hoped, but either way, I'm not impressed. I started using them a couple of weeks before RAAM to break them in and I've been using them off and on since then and my hands have been taking a beating. Since 2001, I've been using the cheapy cheerful Performance brand Century Gel Glove ($15 - $20) and I've had much better results.
These Spenco gloves have been washed a couple of times, so I would expect all the extraneous dye to be gone, but no. My hands were covered in black dye after the ride in the rain on Saturday and three days, several showers, and multiple handwashings (including two degreasing washes with Orange pumice Gojo) per day since and my hands still have some dye left on them. Not good.
To be fair to the Spenco gloves, my bar tape is all messed up, but I rode thousands of miles on my Hed Aerobars without bar tape this spring and the Performance gloves did just fine.