{"id":617,"date":"2008-12-22T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-12-22T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T21:05:52","slug":"driving-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/22\/driving-gloves\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since getting my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/sets\/40154\/\">new car<\/a> back in September, things have been great.  That is, until things started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2008\/12\/22\/winter-snow.html\">getting colder<\/a>.  Besides having to brush off snow\/ice after every snowfall, the cold weather also makes driving more uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, holding a cold steering wheel after you&#8217;ve just spent the past few minutes outside chipping ice off of your car sucks.  Not having the benefits of a heated steering wheel (do such things exist?) I was left with the option of keeping my gloves on while driving, at least until the car warmed up sufficiently.  The only problem was that my gloves didn&#8217;t provide enough grip and thus driving wasn&#8217;t as fun.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So I needed a pair of gloves with enough grip to make them viable for driving.  As you may know, I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mec.ca\/\">MEC<\/a>, so when I was there the other day I spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mec.ca\/Products\/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442617628&#038;FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302698971&#038;bmUID=1229979019137\">these gloves<\/a>, which seemed to be exactly what I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mec.ca\/Products\/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442617628&#038;FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302698971&#038;bmUID=1229979019137\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/mec-windstopper-gloves.jpg\" alt=\"mec-windstopper-gloves\" title=\"mec-windstopper-gloves\" width=\"250\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fit of the Windstopper N2S gloves was superb, and the grip more than enough for driving.  More importantly, because they&#8217;re so snug, you still have excellent finger dexterity for manipulating things like keys, dials and switches.  The only downside is that they&#8217;re not very warm, at least when it comes to the -25C experienced in Edmonton as of late.   If you&#8217;ll be outside for extended periods, I&#8217;d recommend wearing them inside of mitts.  However, they do a great job of protecting your hands from the cold of the steering wheel without sacrificing control. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since getting my new car back in September, things have been great. That is, until things started getting colder. Besides having to brush off snow\/ice after every snowfall, the cold weather also makes driving more uncomfortable. More specifically, holding a cold steering wheel after you&#8217;ve just spent the past few minutes outside chipping ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[316,315,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}