Wearing out gloves - Page 9

 

tomorrow@erols.com wrote:


I hereby award you this shiny brass engraved plaque for the most
orthogonal (in Riemann space) non-sequitur yet proffered on reeky
this season.

I happen to agree that my elkskin ropers aren't good for hot days
and the lighter weight gloves I use tend to wear out in a year or
two.  So that's me crying off entirely from this argument.

 


Thank-you, thank-you, kind Sir,   I happily and gratefully accept.  I
want to thank Steve and Krusty for their help in getting me to this
pinnacle of my reeky (not to say reeking) existence!


Whoa, I hope nobody else read that last paragraph of yours.  Lighter
weight gloves tend to wear out ina year or two?  What the hell are you
doing to those gloves, Mark????

 



I got a few years out of my last pair of Olympia perforated
gloves and finally replaced them this year with a pair of
Teramid mesh gloves recommended by the owner of Cal
BMW, a guy whom I trust for good advice.

They came with a hard knuckle guard, something I'm not
used to, but not uncomfortable and probably a good idea
for trail riding.

I'll have to see how they hold up. Definitely not warm though,
so I'll always pack a warmer glove in the tank bag for trips.

 

Rob Kleinschmidt wrote:

I think you're going to like them.  I have some similar gloves that are
Triumph brand that are wonderfully comfortable, and in a get-off on gravel
somewhere between 30 and 60 mi/hr (I don't know how much I had slowed down
before I went down) they protected my hands just fine.  You're right that
they're not warm though--a pair of waterproof BMW gloves and a pair of
Gerbings (which are stiff and not particularly comfortable but they're
pretty warm even without the electrics turned on) always live in the top
case.

 

Some totally off-topic musings on a pair of used gloves

Confederate cavalry commander JEB Stuart's gloves are in a museum
somewhere, along with his boots, revolver and hat, etc.

I suppose he used those gloves for a time in the 1860's, but they've
been a museum piece for over a century.

No one wears them now, although I suppose they're still serviceable.
It's as if they've been waiting, quietly and patiently for over 140
years, as ready as they were in the 1860's to be put on and used again
in aid of the Confederacy.

For the vast majority of the time their purpose has been simply
to be seen, by people who want to behold an authentic Civil War
artifact used by a celebrity. Perhaps Stuart wore them on his ride
around the Union army on the Peninsula, or the Battle of Brandy
Station or they were preserved after Yellow Tavern. Gazing on these
gloves, visitors can imagine the thunder of hoofs, gunshots
and rebel yells.

Therefore they served their original intended purpose for only
a tiny fraction of their time span. There's a strange sense of irony
about this.

I wonder what the anonymous and long-forgotten glove-maker would have
thought of what came of his handiwork.

They look well-crafted. I'm sure the CSA's premier cavalry general would
have worn nothing but the best. And yet, no matter how skillfully made,
no matter how ready, willing and able to serve the Southern Cause,
they can't help the Davis regime now.

Even back then they did their best, but weren't enough. That is to say,
I don't believe the Fate of the Confederacy hinged on this one pair
of gloves... but then again who knows? Maybe Stuart got so preoccupied
wringing them out after a sudden late June rain shower that his
mission to support Lee's army in Pennsylvania somehow slipped his mind.

Anyway now they're in a glass case. I've never been to the museum,
but I saw their picture on the Internet. For a brief moment I felt
a curious connection with history through the actual riding gloves
belonging to the last swashbuckling Squire:

   "Now each Cavalier that loves honor and right,
   Let him follow the feather of Stuart tonight."
   Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
   Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
   Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade,
   For he must ride sure that goes riding a raid.

This is all that's left of the Confederacy, some gloves in a glass box
and a few other relics? But then, if the South had prevailed,
it's likely that JEB Stuart's gloves would still be in a glass box
in a museum somewhere...

Just some musings.

ps. To Lew: keep your worn-out gloves. You may become as famous
as JEB Stewart, and some museum will put them in a glass case too.

SQ