Miata Mailing List: November 1998, Message #442

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Jason,
Having been on many 2-wheelers, you get pretty choosy about what types
of gloves you use.  I prefer to use a very high quality deer skin with
NO LINING!  The leather is all you need behind the windshield and (if
you have a very soft leather) without the lining you can "feel" the wheel
input very well.   I can easily adjust the stereo (e.g. Head rest speakers)
while wearing the gloves.  You have to look for "these" gloves - most
places want to put some stupid type lining in them which will make them
to clumsy (probably why Lanny can't stand them :) to use.  Also get them
as small as you can stand 'cause there gonna' stretch.  (I wouldn't get them
as
small as O.J. likes though.... ;-)

P.S:  These are the same type of gloves "speed" used with the
         Mach-5 Lanny ;-)

Lanny Chambers wrote:

> On 11/11/98 6:27, Jason Rego rego@pobox.com wrote:
>
> >Now that its starting to get cold, my hands are bearing the brunt of my
> >top-down driving.  I was wondering if any of you fellow listers had
> >suggestions where I could get driving gloves that serve well to keep the
> >hands warm as well?
>
> If it's not too cold to drive top-down (>40°F), my hands do fine without
> gloves if I aim the eyeball vents at them. I run the vent selector almost
> all the way to the left, so a little heat comes out at the floor but most
> is directed at the hands.
>
> I hate gloves almost as much as I hate hats.
>
> ---
> Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
> '94C
>
> Got Red?



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