Hot hands: heated grips or gloves?

[CrazyKell]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Yea that's why I always used silk liners and they are get super small when it warms up during the day... To be honest, I LOVE to ride but as I've gotten older, I've decided that there is such a thing as "quality" of ride and I'm not feeling it when I have to be terrified of every shimmer on the road and I'm bundled up, barely able to move freely... Of course, that's just me but I can always ride another day if it's below about 50 degrees...

You and me both! I don't need some stupid "I rode in "winter" award" like a lot of people seem to need.

I don't enjoy anything about a ride where I spend more of my mental energy focused on staying warm than on enjoying the ride.

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

I don't enjoy anything about a ride where I spend more of my mental energy focused on staying warm than on enjoying the ride.

Hence why I (personally) HAVE heated gear. WITH it...there is no fatigue associated with shivering, or mental drain. The RIGHT heated gear can be as comforting as an electric blanket. As a matter of fact, the days I commute on the bike in the cold weather, I arrive at the office a great deal warmer than the days I take the cage. And I typically STAY warmer thruout the day, where I'm normally a little chilly in the office.

[CrazyKell]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

Hence why I (personally) HAVE heated gear. WITH it...there is no fatigue associated with shivering, or mental drain. The RIGHT heated gear can be as comforting as an electric blanket. As a matter of fact, the days I commute on the bike in the cold weather, I arrive at the office a great deal warmer than the days I take the cage. And I typically STAY warmer thruout the day, where I'm normally a little chilly in the office.

Meh. I don't live in a locale that offers year round ride (despite what others might say). It's a fact of my life that I have to put the bike away in the fall and get it out in spring.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Triple

It's been in the 20's here each morning for months. Not as frigid as it is back home in Michigan, but cold enough, no?

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And is that typical? I lived in North Carolina, and I'd say it only went into the 20's like 30-40 days a year.

And here in CA, the nights can be cold even in the middle of the summer. Not so in the South.

Regardless, I've never had a problem with the BACK of my hands. It's the palm and fingers that get cold with me, which is why heated grips work great.

[MILK]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

And is that typical? I lived in North Carolina, and I'd say it only went into the 20's like 30-40 days a year.

And here in CA, the nights can be cold even in the middle of the summer. Not so in the South.

Regardless, I've never had a problem with the BACK of my hands. It's the palm and fingers that get cold with me, which is why heated grips work great.

Excellent question! I live in NC now and although some mornings it is that cold it doesn't stay that way long. We've had a cold winter though compared to most years.. It was 60 yesterday!

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Personally I think electric gloves would be stupid. They wouldn't have enough "feel" as regular race gloves, and they'd have a wire hooked up to them. Nobody I know uses them. Heated grips are enough. The back of your hands don't get all that cold, that part of the glove always has more protection anyway.

You live in California.

Your views on heated anything, are pretty much useless.

JC

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

You live in California.

Your views on anything, are pretty much useless.

JC

FTFY

I use Gerbings heated gloves for anything less than 38 degrees on the BMW's or below 45 on the motard (no protection)

Heated grips are GREAT for slightly chilly weather, but the wind hits the OUTSIDE of your hand and not the inside. I've found that regular racing gloves with heated grips feel good...but below 38 the inside of your palm maybe toasty while outside of your hand is damn near frost-bitten.

The Gerbing gloves are thicker than my gauntlet gloves, but nothing like cold weather gloves, so they are manageable. I recently bought some heated pants and socks and hope to give those a shot on the ride to Barber in the next few weeks.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

You live in California.

Your views on heated anything, are pretty much useless.

JC

I'm quite sure we get more cold nights & mornings than Georgia ever does. The whole "Mediterrenean climate" thing is only true within 2 miles of the beach. Go beyond that and you're fucked.

[Homeslice]

Hell, I used race gloves with nothing else for plenty of 35-40 degree rides to work........Is it optimal, no, but I don't see the big deal unless you're riding longer than half an hour. If you are, then just add some grip warmers. Fuck thick gloves, they suck.

[Mr Lefty]

The Moose gauntlets work good... But the hippo hands work better. They're the same idea... Just hippo hands are larger... Both in how much of your arm they cover and how much of the handle bar or clip on they cover.

They can make using the controls difficult but you get used to it... Or atleast I did