The Golden Triangle Rider

deepcdiver · Motorcyclist Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 38

Am separated somehow from my gloves...all I can find are cheap fake leather vinyl over cloth with fake wool lining. The Vietnamese are hard workers but damn if they have leather gloves for sale anywhere...

Am in Hue for two days, anyone seen any kind of store that carries some kind of leather work globes???

Even the markets are no help...

Thanks!

Glenn · Cyclist Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Vietnam

Try to find the street that sells worker safety equipment -- if there is one in Hue. Probably the best you'll be able to find there will be gardening gloves.

Are you heading north or south? You may have better luck in Da Nang...

deepcdiver · Motorcyclist Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 38

I've tried that...nada. Basically, people that can afford gloves, don't do manual labor, those who domanual labor cannot afford them Sad

Watched some workers iunloading sand from a boat on the perfume river onto a conveyor belt that dumped it onto an enormous mound, that was being shoveled into trucks to make concrete. They used rags on their hands.

Found a pair that were THIN leather, absolutely the worst sewing I have ever seen on ANYTHING, almost fell apart just looking at them. Surprising when ther is a lot of good craftmanship around.

Have pretty much given up, if i find a shoe shop tha makes shoes to fit like they did in Hoi AN I will have some made...in the meantime will use my nylon cold weather/rain gloves Sad

It's cool now this far northa anyway...

Heading north from Hue, towards Mai Cau, Son La and Dien Bien Fu, to Spa and south from their to Hanoi. Am ten days out from Saigon, pardon ****ing me, HCMC. Not hiccup from the Minsk "Olga Slutskaya" but I clean/change the plug about every third day....and use my own 2-stroke oil in the fuel.