Riding gear

[The emperor has no clothes]

I bought a pair of gloves at Cycle Gear a couple years ago. I like gauntlet gloves and they had them for a ridiculously low price of $9.99. They've turned out to be my favorite gloves and I use them just about every day. But sadly one of the fingers started to come apart. I like these gloves so much I decided to sew them up instead of trash them. As I was fixing them it got me thinking about some of the gear I've had over the years. I seem to get attached to gloves and helmets. Once I find some I like I don't want to give them up. Boots, jackets not so much. I have no problem trading them in.

[DirtyDan]

Hey buddy

I got a brand new pair of heli ark welding gloves if you want them. Welding supply store 20 k miles per pair average.

Let me know

Dan

[Gryphon Rider]

I get attached to pretty much all of my riding gear and don't enjoy having to replace it. The reason isn't so much a love of the piece, but that I have put a fair amount of time and thought determining what best suits my needs, and then quite often the piece will either be modified in some fashion to even better suit my needs, or I have put effort into maintaining and repairing it.

Eventually a piece wears out, and while sometimes there is something better on the market to replace it, sometimes there isn't anything that serves my needs quite as well, or now it's prohibitively expensive.

I could never wear simple gauntlet gloves. No armour and usually no wrist strap to keep it on in a crash.

[The emperor has no clothes]

I get attached to pretty much all of my riding gear and don't enjoy having to replace it. The reason isn't so much a love of the piece, but that I have put a fair amount of time and thought determining what best suits my needs, and then quite often the piece will either be modified in some fashion to even better suit my needs, or I have put effort into maintaining and repairing it.

Eventually a piece wears out, and while sometimes there is something better on the market to replace it, sometimes there isn't anything that serves my needs quite as well, or now it's prohibitively expensive.

I could never wear simple gauntlet gloves. No armour and usually no wrist strap to keep it on in a crash.

I hear you. It seems of all the billions of different gear out there only a handful are to my liking. I don't like the gauntlets without the straps either. Probably why I like these so much. They fit perfectly, they have wrist straps , adjustable cuffs, and armored knuckles. Being cheap was the icing on the cake. I think they suckered me in with the sale price. Now I'm willing to spend $40 for some more. But alas like you say they've probably "improved" them to the point I won't like them.

[Rams]

Some things will only get better with use and a little personal attention.

At least, that is what my wife says when she's looking at me.............  

[da prez]

  Just this year I bought another helmet. It is not that I did not try others , I did not like the other two I bought. I finally bought a JVC full face. When the garbage truck came by, I told him to do it in.
  I got the helmet in 1972. I replaced the lining several times. I liked the helmet so much I could not part with it. My new helmet is O K . but I still liked the old 3/4 one. I still have the leather jacket I bought in 1982. It has not shrunk . My wife bought me a new one with a removable winter liner.

   If any one needs a couple turtle shell helmets , contact me.

                                            da prez

[The emperor has no clothes]

Some things will only get better with use and a little personal attention.

At least, that is what my wife says when she's looking at me.............  

This is a family forum Rams.

[Gryphon Rider]

I don't like the gauntlets without the straps either. Probably why I like these so much. They fit perfectly, they have wrist straps , adjustable cuffs, and armored knuckles. Being cheap was the icing on the cake. I think they suckered me in with the sale price. Now I'm willing to spend $40 for some more. But alas like you say they've probably "improved" them to the point I won't like them.

When you said you paid $10, I assumed they were something like these:



With the features you mention, I agree you got a heckuva deal at $10.

I'm currently waiting on the mail for these gloves, Knox Orsa with a cable retention system.  I find that the gloves I like have Velcro wrist straps, but then the Velcro wears out and I have to install snaps to keep them usable.  This system might be ideal; twist the knob to tighten and pull the knob out to release.  And they come in white, which I much prefer over black for conspicuity.  I'll probably end up adding some retroreflective  material.



They're not cheap.  I sent £80 with my wife to the UK so she could have her cousin buy them and send them to me.  His shipping speed hasn't matched Amazon's, unfortunately.