Heated Gloves - Recommendations?

[viper_larry]

A friend of mine is riding his Kawasaki Ninja on a 90 mile round trip to work each day and is getting very cold hands (working nights, coming home around 7am).

Can anyone recommend some heated gloves to help this?

Cheers

Graham

[M3EVO]

Speak to 954 girlie. She is the guru on this subject.

[Badapple]

Never seen heated gloves. Oxford make heated bar kind of stuff. Like the Hotgrips or Hothands

[M3EVO]

G&T Darling?

Anyway I thought you had heated grips fitted to dat beast of yours????

[Mon Ami Mate]

I faced this dilemma myself a few years ago and found that the only real solution was to use the car. Tricky getting your knee down though - particularly on left handers!

[Gerrard]

I have Oxford heated grips and use Hein Gericke two-finger gloves (Pantheon?) I rode all through last winter without any problems. The gloves look silly, but they are damn warm!

[a j]

M3EVO said:

G&T Darling? Anyway I thought you had heated grips fitted to dat beast of yours????

Daves not that bad !

[M3EVO]

Lol!!

[XM5ER]

How about some muffs. I used them years ago, you do look like a goon though.

Nothing like slipping your hand into a nice warm muff before a long hard ride.

[M3EVO]

XM5ER said:

How about some muffs. I used them years ago, you do look like a goon though. Nothing like slipping your hand into a nice warm muff before a long hard ride.

[viper_larry]

XM5ER said:

How about some muffs. I used them years ago, you do look like a goon though. Nothing like slipping your hand into a nice warm muff before a long hard ride.

Let's not go there!

Thanks for the feedback everyone - I'll pass it on...

[Badapple]

954 Girlie said:

James Is this payback for the IKEA jokes?? we won't let it die you know - no matter how much you try to deflect the HEAT!! Yes I do have heated grips but matey was askin bout gloves - Grips are ACE!! apart from that they take a while to get used to cos the GIRTH <---- any excuse for a comedy word!! is bigger than standard & make your hands ache for a bit. :P

How easy are the grips to fit?

[Gerrard]

on a scale of 1-10 (10 being bloody impossible) I'd say about 3 - hardest part is finding a wire in your existing loom that is only live with the ignition (don't want to leave them on all day and come back to a flat battery, do you?)

[TT Paul]

Buy BMW Adventure (heated grips plus power take off x2)

[Mags]

Just been through this process myself.
I tried Giali/Klan heated gloves which are a cordura type material, the XXL didn't fit me as the thumb was sewn too high into the glove.
I also tried the Widder heated gloves which are part leather but they were the cheapest nastiest glove I have seen, the connector for the power was awful and actually pop-rivited into the glove (by a child it looked like)
I eventually settled on the Klan inner gloves and bought some slightly larger outer gloves to give me some more movement, haven't used them yet but have been told they are great.

Mags

[d3ano]

I bought my bike a couple of weeks back and it has the Oxford heated grip unit and is all wired in, but the actually grips are not the oxford ones and arn't wired in.
Any idea why this is?
Also can i just buy the grip and how the hell do you take off the old grips without slicing them.

[Kwacker]

I bought a pair of IXS Vulcans (live long and prosper jobbies) a few years ago. I can't recommend them enough. Totally waterproof, very warm, soft inner, and room for a liner if you'd like, but I haven't needed to so far.

I have thought about heated grips but I think I would rather have a heated vest instead.

Kwacker

[pesty]

www.riderhouse.co.uk/widder.htm
widder do electric clothing that connect to your battery on the bike.

BMW also do a very good heated vest apparently

>> Edited by pesty on Saturday 13th November 18:37

[Al The Man]

I have the Klan Heated Gloves, I was out today in minus 4 and my hands where fine.

Safe Riding

[dannylt]

Mags said:

Just been through this process myself. I tried Giali/Klan heated gloves which are a cordura type material, the XXL didn't fit me as the thumb was sewn too high into the glove.

I've used these to commute through two winters, after previously having to stop halfway and hold my hands in the hot exhaust so I could still move them! They are great - wired straight in to battery no probs. They do leather too, but just don't import them to the UK. Worth a try, and happy to accept returns when they don't fit. I also put heated socks & vest but actually have never used them - commute was about an hour. Riding over snow/ice has to be one of the most scary experiences!