I’m looking through the cataloges for some new gloves and there are several gloves with “pittards” What’s a pittard? Do I need it? Will it make me more comfortable,faster, lighter or sexier?
I believe it refers to a type of leather. I’ve owned some. They were nice, but don’t hold up well if they get wet.
From Google,
"Pittards is a UK based PLC producing technically advanced leather for many of the
world’s leading brands in sports and fashion gloves, footwear and luxury …".
Thanks.
Pittards are small, docile marsupials originally from Tasmania. Their tanned pelts are ideally suited for constructing gloves. The shape of their four legs and neck, when the pelt is ‘harvested’, almost exactly matches the shape of the human hand with its five digits, thus making it an ideal starting point for easily crafting high quality gloves. They are currently bred and grown on sprawling Pittard ranches in the Yucatan, adjacent to Quintana Roo, Mexico. Since the advent of NAFTA they have flooded the US market, almost completely replacing kidskin gloves. Kids all over the US have rejoiced.
Save the Pittards! Pittards gloves is murder. I keep a number of pittards as pets, rescued from a Guatamalan glove factory. They are easily trained and most amusing. They are a little weird though, they love to lay all over my handlebars and rub their pelts against road debris on my tubulars. Very strange.
Then there is the amazing story of the Lorica Fish, found in the channel between the Island of Madagascar and Continental East Africa. The colorful red, blue and silver Lorica fish is a member of the shark phylum and is prized for its leathery, water-proof skin. It does not have scales like a normal fish, but tough skin like a shark. Only the female Lorica fish is harvested for use in cycling shoes, since it has a pattern of three triangle orifices on its soft, white underbelly where its reproductive organs are located. These three reproductive orifices are the reason why Look cleats use a triangular three-hole pattern, to line up with the reproductive orifices on the bottom of a Lorica fish. I learned about the Lorica fish on a Jacques Cousteau documentary: (Read this with a voice like Rod Sirling)
“After leaving Calypso, Falco and his divers reach the bottom to discover the reefs are teeming with life. A huge school of Lorica, respendid in red, blue and silver, fluant their reproductive orifices in an erotic display while hovering motionless above the reef…”
I thought Pittard was the captain of the starship Enterprise on “Star Trek: Next Generation”…
You mean it’s not a slow developing peach seed?
Or what Penn St. alumni call those who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh?
I’m afraid that the Lorica fish is bound to follow the Naugabeast into the oblivion of extinction. The pampas of Argentina used to be home to teeming, migratory herds of these magnificent creatures, but now they are no more. In the 70’s rapacious hunting of these animals for their skins, used to cover millions of La-Z-Boy recliners destined for dens and rec rooms all across the U.S. and Canada, led to the collapse of the herds. The mature beasts were quickly depleted in order to cover the massive recliners required to fit the equally huge American rears. The remaining smaller, immature animals were wiped out to make bar stools and baby seats. Now the high plains of Argentina are empty and elderly gauchos shed a tear for a lost way of life.
Stop the overfishing of the Lorica fisheries before it’s too late!