Great Goatskin Gloves

New goatskins

My local neighborhood army-navy store has these BOSS unlined goatskin gloves for $12, so I snagged a pair in black XL. The hell of it is, I'd like to turn my friends onto this great motorcycle glove, but they may be hard to find. Every place I find them on the web, the page indicates they are unavailable. They're not even on the surplus store's website. So keep your eyes peeled when you're at the hardware store or Home Depot for these BOSS goatskin gloves, style 4080.

My beloved natural color cowhide gloves, which have given me so many years of good service on outdoor trips and were excellent summer riding gloves, have finally bitten the dust (I briefly had a pair of natural color Geier kangaroo gloves, but I gave them to my sometime riding partner J as a gift to commemorate the Sturgis ride.)  The old cowhide gloves are literally falling apart. They were my favorites, my 'go-to' gloves for everything- camping trips, scrounging firewood, using hand tools, and motorcycle riding. I wore them all the time on trips out to the Utah desert, because they would keep the skin on my hands from drying out and cracking in the extremely low humidity.

Old favorites

I recently replaced them with another pair of unlined cowhide gloves, also in a natural color, but since those are brand new they look almost orange. It looks goofy with my black leather jacket. They'll be excellent work gloves, but the new BOSS goatskins will now be my summer riding glove. They fit great, and the goatskin is flexible yet very tough, while being a bit thinner than cowhide. They give me a great feel for the forward controls on the Road King.




So now I have four pairs for riding:

• Olympia insulated waterproof
• Geier unlined elkskin
• leather gauntlet with Thinsulate from J&P Cycles
• and now the BOSS unlined goatskin

As you can tell, I have a thing about gloves. It's so hard finding just the right fit and feel. Same with helmets. Last Tuesday I almost had my head taken off when we got hit by powerful wind gusts on the Foothills Road. The wind got inside the helmet and was pulling at it, and me, at 70mph. This is the second time that has happened to me- both times I was wearing a half or 'shorty' style helmet. It's downright disconcerting, I tell you for true.

Sooner or later I will have the perfect jacket, boots, helmet, and gloves. May we live so long!

Let The Good Times Roll.