About 10 years ago, I won a pair of gloves at an Ohio bike shop, a local drawing. (It was not an HD dealership.) They were white leather with orange highlights, came up like gauntlets, and were covered in velcro straps and titanium plates. Not really my cup of tea. I threw them on a shelf, and their they lay. Today, I went out with the wife to trim the last remaining GD hedge apple tree. These vile plants have thorns all over them and are a very hard wood. I use pruners to lop off branches, but when it was time to pick them up, the thorns got me. I went into the garage and spied my titanium alternative lifestyle gloves. They were a little stiff, but by gosh I was able to pick up about 90 pounds of thorny branches without further injury.