I wear Firstgear Men’s Kinetic Sport Touring Leather Gloves with knuckle protection and palm sliders. I remember reading about the importance of the palm protection so I looked for that feature when purchasing my last pair of gloves.45 years+ on a bike. I've been down more often than a $10.00 hooker. ANY glove is better than none. Carbon knuckles are all well and good, but unless I'm riding someplace I might bite some bark with them, my knuckles are the farthest thing from my mind; I've worried more about my palms in damn near every low side I've had...