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Written by Ben Branch |
April 9th 2014
The new Biltwell Work Gloves are designed to evoke the style of the gloves used by motorcyclists in the 1960s and ’70s, each pair is made from 100% heavy-duty cowhide and features an adjustable wrist opening, anatomically contoured suede palm panels with internal padding for abrasion resistance and stitched accordion baffles on index and middle fingers for added flexibility.
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Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
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