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Originally Posted by Cafe Racer
They might not save you in a wreck....
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Um.....
Isn't that kind of the point of wearing gloves in the first place?
Priorities, I guess.
Good luck out there.
$0.02: I'm a function-over-form guy, and the bias is always toward safety. That's why I wear full leathers all the time... because they work to protect me better than the alternative. Cost is entirely secondary (for more on this including real numbers, read this short blog entry:
https://www.ninjette.org/forums/blog.php?b=8384).
I'd buy the Harbor Freight glove argument IF the gloves offered protection and utility equal to or better than a quality pair of moto-specific gauntlet gloves (not shorties, not mesh... real-deal serious gloves that won't shred or explode the moment they hit the pavement). Fact is, they don't. My hands are too important to save a measly few bucks.
FWIW my street boots are a pair of cheap Bilt Trackstars (track boots are proper race boots, impractical on the street). I economized there because on close inspection, they weren't noticeably different from much more expensive equivalent name-brand boots.
Saving $$ is cool, but for me... save where it makes sense.
Ya pays yer money, ya makes yer choice.