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Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.
Fri 30 Oct, 2015 4:12 pm
You may all know the type
made from the absolutest lightweight polartec fabric or polyester tricot knit and with no sewn seam at the wrist; just elastic at the back
My pair have been reduced by loss of the left glove and I am desperately chasing replacements
I bought some OR liner gloves and not only are they too thick and heavy but the sewn seam rubs my wrist raw and I can't turn them inside out due to the silicon dots all over the palm
You know they were good because they stopped making them
These are one item I am happy to pay postage on as they are so lite
Mine were purchased from a motorcycle shop? or Rays Outdoors? a few years ago as liners for leather gloves but they worked wonderfully under my OR Latitude glove and mitten combo to give me a 3 layer set
I stopped using them for a while when I got the Mutant set but I think I'll go back to them for touring and keep the Mutants for base camp use; the Latitudes being much lighter
Links to suppliers much appreciated
Nothing found so far
Sat 31 Oct, 2015 7:25 am
Andy Strapz ?
He sells liner gloves which appear to have a long cuff, although not what I would call a gauntlet. Sorry my Microsoft won't allow links.
Sat 31 Oct, 2015 7:45 am
Right sort of style but wrong material, although the Icebreaker liner is probably good for the motorbike I don't like woollen liners for wet weather skiing; the same goes for silk liners and for similar reasons
Nice tank bags there
Sat 31 Oct, 2015 9:35 am
If you haven't already, browse around some of the UK and Euro motorcycle gear sites. I can't remember names other than Nippy Normans, which is more hardware than software. If any more come to mind, I'll post them.
The weather makes for some pretty tough motorcyclists over there. A lot of them aren't of the fair weather variety which predominates here, and they need clothes to suit.
Sun 01 Nov, 2015 1:40 pm
Found several in the US None of whom will sell/post outside of the Continental contiguous
Sat 07 Nov, 2015 9:40 am
I feel your pain on the seams. Deadbird Phase liners, or Extremities Thinnies might work.
What have you got against merino, or the new synth merino blends? You can fully woven stretch liners which are what I prefer.
Sat 07 Nov, 2015 11:07 am
Chezza wrote:I feel your pain on the seams. Deadbird Phase liners, or Extremities Thinnies might work.
What have you got against merino, or the new synth merino blends? You can fully woven stretch liners which are what I prefer.
Merino takes too long to dry out and doesn't transport the moisture away from my hands fast enough and the polypro gloves while good at that are too thick to fit inside my gloves
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