Red Rock
06-13-2009, 03:06 PM
I was out shopping at a local big box store here in town for some zip off pants. I found the pants and some other good stuff for commuting (GORE ranin pants!)that I did not have before. The good thing it was all on sale!:D
I happen to find the glove section. Since I started cycling again, gloves are always something to look at and evaluate. I was looking at the neoprene gloves. Thinking how would they work in the winter? Then I found an associate that I could ask questions. So I did. We were talking about what glove would work best for cycling. I meant BIcycling. Then she says "oh, my dad uses these when he goes out on his MOTORcycle and then puts on a heavier glove such as this." After she said that, I was a bit taken a back on the statement. It never occured to her that I was talking about bicycling. I never even thought about a motorcycle either.
Then I tell my husband how I had "scored" shopping and how happy I was because everything was on sale. Then he makes this comment of "don't you have enough gloves? How many gloves do you have? Don't you have as many gloves as shoes? Then I got to thinking, I am probably not the only one either. There are gloves for summer, both mountain and road. Gloves for Fall and Spring, road and mountain. Then gloves for winter. There is some interchangability between them. There was not a postive statement about what I did. It turned a good experience into a not so good experience.
I am the one riding not him, so I will be using what I have found. I actually hope to be riding more not less since I want to be commuting to work. Or biking my drive.
Anyway, life goes on...
Red Rock
I happen to find the glove section. Since I started cycling again, gloves are always something to look at and evaluate. I was looking at the neoprene gloves. Thinking how would they work in the winter? Then I found an associate that I could ask questions. So I did. We were talking about what glove would work best for cycling. I meant BIcycling. Then she says "oh, my dad uses these when he goes out on his MOTORcycle and then puts on a heavier glove such as this." After she said that, I was a bit taken a back on the statement. It never occured to her that I was talking about bicycling. I never even thought about a motorcycle either.
Then I tell my husband how I had "scored" shopping and how happy I was because everything was on sale. Then he makes this comment of "don't you have enough gloves? How many gloves do you have? Don't you have as many gloves as shoes? Then I got to thinking, I am probably not the only one either. There are gloves for summer, both mountain and road. Gloves for Fall and Spring, road and mountain. Then gloves for winter. There is some interchangability between them. There was not a postive statement about what I did. It turned a good experience into a not so good experience.
I am the one riding not him, so I will be using what I have found. I actually hope to be riding more not less since I want to be commuting to work. Or biking my drive.
Anyway, life goes on...
Red Rock