Local 3's Paul Shahen introduces you to Handup Gloves, a small local company making some of the world's best cycling gloves internationally.
Handup Gloves started in the spare bedroom of Cody Wallis and his wife's Highland Park home in 2014.
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Some eight years later they're shipping thousands across the globe, they've collaborated with local brands like Sweetens Cove, Hutton & Smith to big names like Red Bull, George W. Bush, Lance Armstrong and others.
They're now branching out from cycling gloves to winter sport gloves and golf gloves.Â