Heated Gloves?? - Page 3

 

Gerbing

I'll second the heated grips although part of your success with them is
down to a warmer environment. Up here, the backs of your fingers will
still be cold. That said, I rode in sub freezing temps with my heated
grips on at mid range.

We sell the H-D version of Garmin heated gloves. One pair recenty came
back because it was burning the little finger on one hand. Mind you, this
customer is OCD.
They are bulky and the wiring is a hassle but they do work, especially
when the temp is very cold. It wasn't really cold enough to warrant
heated gloves when the customer complained.

Pros - Keeps the whole hand warm, especially the exposed back of the hand
and the fingers. Can be worn separately from jackets. Part of a whole
body system that can be daisy chained together. Good quality.

Cons - bulky, lack of individual controls unless you get a separate 2
outlet thermostat. The heat is the same intensity in the small fingers as
it is in the palm and back of hand so it may be too hot in one spot and
not enough in others. Requires a splitter. Expensive (although not more
so than an installed set of heated grips).

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Bob Mann

Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.

 Bob Mann wrote:

Uh, guys, since I've seen it twice now I think it appropriate to point
out that Gerbing makes heated gloves and Garmin makes GPS navigators.
If someone's off looking for gloves and he searches under "Garmin"
he's not going to have much luck.

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--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

 @news3.newsguy.com:


Yeah....Gerbing....what he said.

--
Bob Mann

Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.

 

A pair of dirtbike type handguards makes a big difference
in keeping the backs of your hands warm by deflecting
the windstream that would otherwise be blowing on them.

I also like heated grips because they're always there.
Even in mid summer you can dress too lightly for a
ride and blood circulation can carry a surprising amount
of heat from the grips back to the rest of your body.

The one caveat is that heated grips are most useful when
installed on an actual motorcycle. For those whose motorcycling
is done mostly at the keyboard, they may not be very useful.

 
If you have heated grips, you can opt for some snowmobiler's gloves that
have the thinner palm for the snowmobile's heated grip and more insulation
on the backside.  Olympia makes some and probably Polaris.

B~