Hot Grips operating instructions

[vifferman]

I reckon a combination would be perfection. I ride with linerless gloves as I don't like the detached feeling you get with bulky gloves. The only down side with this is that the clutch and brake levers are still FUGGEN cold, so if you're riding in traffic or anywhere where you need to use the levers alot, the fingers still get cold. I reckon hand guards would help in this situation, plus the hands wouldn't get windchill or rain.

You too? I hate padded gloves, but like you I've found unlined gloves are generally warm enough, apart from the levers making my fingers cold. So I was really pleased that the VFR had heated grips, and I'm looking forward to trying them out when it gets colder.

In my haste to uplift my ST from Motorad/Sawyers yesterday (probably still dazed from seeing Jim2's new ride up close and personal), I neglected to enquire as to the operating instructions for my new Daytona All Season Hot Grips, which were fitted during the service.

I note that there is a three-position switch: Off; Start; and On.

I thought my heated grips were Daytonas, but they can't be, as they have a variable controller rather than a switch, with OFF then adjustable from LO to HI.

[Waylander]

What's the humidity/damp like in Dallas compared with here? Down in the Hawkes bay ("when I were a lud") we'd bop around at 4 degrees C with a t-shirt and light jersey, up here in the Waikato I was freezing my arse off and the thermometer was reading 12 degrees. Eight degrees warmer felt like ten degrees colder. The damp makes things a lot worse IME.

I wound up making a set of waterproof, lined mittens (couldn't find any suitable ones in the shops) for winter riding in -6 degree frosts (and fog) at 100km/h (wind chill factor bloody nasty) to keep my fingers cozzied together (like my toes, which were quite fine in medium weight socks and a pair of Sidis).

Heated grips would be great - or those plastic sheilds that they have on a lot of the trail/moto-x bikes to keep the icy wind off the knuckles.

I think Dallas itself works out to be about even. Though it is a larger area, it does have lots of lakes and rivers and creeks and stuff like that. Still I do plan on doing long rides over the winter so it would probably do to get some heated grips, exspecialy if I'm gonna do the desert road again.

[Wolf]

exspecialy if I'm gonna do the desert road again.

Faaaark, yeah!

I recall crawling thru there at around 20kph one morning in some sort of sleet that fouled my visor big-time and I was frozen to the core despite multiple layers over all of my body (including an army-surplus great-coat) - and at 20kph, I can't blame "wind chill". Twice I've been through there in the dead of night in atrocious cold, hate that stretch of road.

[XP@]

cos winter will be here soon, and I like the idea of toasty warm hands.

From as little as $10!

I'm on my second set of daytona grips on my beemer, I stuffed one grip on the 1st pair.
The old pair was gathering dust in a box and when I re-wired the XT I decided that a nice pair of toasties would be good on that too.

I used the good grip and part of these DIY instructions:
http://www.webmaster10.com/ldr/DIY-heated-grips.html
To get the right resistance I measured the resistance on the good grip, then measured a length of resistance wire to the correct resistance. Wound it round the bar, taped it on with electrical tape, stuck an el-cheepo grip on top and it worked! So if you make mush of the wire coming out of a daytona grip DONT chuck them, making a new grip is a really easy option and will save heaps of $'s (unless you manage to toast the rest of your 'lectrics)