Bike gloves - yes or no?

I think it will differ person to person.  When I ride with groups, drafting etc, I will wear them just in case, to prevent road rash of the hands etc. Good padding when hands are exclusively on bars/drops etc. More weight bearing on hands.

When I ride alone or in a race I prefer not to wear them as I tend to have less of a death grip while riding. Plus while hands are on the aerobars most of the time I serves minimal purpose for me.

JMHO.

Training always.  Only wear the gloves in case of wreck to help protect my hands (if I can't type, I can't work).

Racing never...but I ride aero so no need for cushion.  Not sure how the hands would feel on a roadie for three hours w/o gloves though. 

Training, usually, and almost always with the road bike.

Racing, only once, for B2B because of the cold.

ETA: Just saw the comments about ski gloves.  Those are unknown in these parts (!), but I wore mountain biking gloves and they were great for B2B.

always.

I consider them a piece of safety gear.

for a race- I leave them velcroed onto my bars and put them on during the ride.

Always in training and never in racing.

I know the typical advice is to not do anything new on race day, but when it comes down to a race, gloves are such a small thing that it's really irrelevant. 

Always in training and at work, considered a piece of safety equipment by department, did wear them in my 1st tri not sure if I would again...

Good bike gloves will keep you from experienceing guyon syndrome and carpral tunnel syndrome in addition to some other hand maladies...

not really supposed to be stopping road rash if you fall off the bike and land hand first you care less about your hand as most of the time you have a broken collarbone or dislocated shoulder, tuck and roll if you go down, at least that's what we are taught

Road bike - I wear bike gloves training and racing.

Tri bike - I don't wear gloves.

I never wear them. But I don't ride when its freezing cold. And I would never use them in a race.

You put your running shoes on while wearing full gloves?

I wear gloves for training any time I'm on the road (as opposed to trainer), and never in racing (Sprints and Oly's only).

John

100% in training.  I always have, but my last bike coach was the daughter of a hand surgeon so she was pretty keen on gloves for training.  I skip the gloves for shorter distances now.  I think I will adopt her approach for deciding on gloves during a race, including how crowded, road conditions, wierd turns or sudden uphills where people might wipe out or veer off course?

I have road bike with aero bars.    Only HIM I did was cold so I actually wore full-finger gloves on that one.  I put them on on the bike if I do wear them in a race.