Hot hands: heated grips or gloves?

CrazyKell · 02-22-2010, 09:43 AM

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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 · 02-22-2010, 10:32 AM

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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 · 02-22-2010, 10:34 AM

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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.

CasterTroy · 02-22-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by CrazyKell

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.

True.....and that would drive me NUTS. use too...(before Al Gore sent us into a polar nuclear winter) we would get the occational 70 degree day in Jan/feb and it'd be on like donkey king, so the bikes are always ready...but this year it's been 50's that bring all the bikes out

MILK · 02-22-2010, 12:44 PM

Before I had heated grips I didn't like to ride below 40. After the heated grips I can comfortably ride down to 30, with my winter gloves on of course.

Another thing I LOVED about heated grips is that getting caught in the rain isn't so miserable. Even in the summer, I don't have rain resistant gloves so even temps in the 60's with rain they really made a difference.

Homeslice · 02-22-2010, 12:54 PM

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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 · 02-22-2010, 12:58 PM

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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!

Amber Lamps · 02-22-2010, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MILK

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!

Yep and I rode from about 11am to 4 pm!!!!!! Other than some sandy spots it was fucking AWESOME!!!

Phenix_Rider · 02-22-2010, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Triple

If I get this Bandit (or any other bike equipped with actual handlebars), I'm going with heated grips inside some kind of hand guard. Sounds like the grips will suffice so long as the wind is deflected away from the hands.

Bulky gloves don't really bother me-- you get used to them-- but I don't like the idea of being plugged into my bike.

I think you'll be fine. My heated grips keep most of my hand warm. It's the two fingers on each hand that stay out on the levers that freeze.

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MILK The cows want you dead. Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2,087	Before I had heated grips I didn't like to ride below 40. After the heated grips I can comfortably ride down to 30, with my winter gloves on of course. Another thing I LOVED about heated grips is that getting caught in the rain isn't so miserable. Even in the summer, I don't have rain resistant gloves so even temps in the 60's with rain they really made a difference.