Not-So-Hot Grips

[CookMySock]

Does anybody know about the lace on over wrap type of heated grips?

Oxford Hot hands.

http://www.webbikeworld.com/r3/heated-motorcycle-grips/

Or get a heated jacket.

Steve

[banditrider]

I also have a vintage bike with reverse leavers, they pivot from the outside of the bars, so the cables are inside the bars. Does anybody know about the lace on over wrap type of heated grips?

Oxford Hot hands.

http://www.webbikeworld.com/r3/heated-motorcycle-grips/

Or get a heated jacket.

Steve

My old man had some of those wrap around ones on his beemer. He liked them but I hated the extra thickness they added to the bars.

BTW: a heated jacket won't warm ya hands much ;-)

[tracyprier]

Funny you mention that, mine does the same thing! not an issue though as they are being replaced.

cheers
Tracy

But eventually I twigged to the grip slipping and the throttle not getting turned enough. A real pain in the butt so I popped into a mate's place on my way home and pinched a bit of his loctite - sorted for another 53,000km...

[tracyprier]

Actually I don't think ANY amount of money will buy gloves that will actually keep your hands warm in properly cold conditions. I think that you are always going to get heat loss just because a whole lot of cold air is rushing past them, thats why you need something that actually generates heat.

Last year I got a pair of proper merino undergloves (not the really thin ones either) to go under my Olympic winter gloves... and in the dead of winter my hands STILL got cold and thats just on a 20 minute commute to work along the motorway!

And if you don't want to mess with your grips you can get the oxford hothands that velcro over your existing grips and they are only about $70.

Cheers
Tracy

Exactly, you won't get a pair of gloves that give the same sort of result for that money.

[CookMySock]

My old man had some of those wrap around ones on his beemer. He liked them but I hated the extra thickness they added to the bars. BTW: a heated jacket won't warm ya hands much ;-)

Yeah even permanent heated grips are thicker. It's one of those things you do and ignore the differences, or don't do, though I think permanent grips look thinner than the hot hands.

Instead of putting the hot hands on the bars, you could shove them up your jacket - quite likely that would work really well.

If you have a heated jacket your core stays warm so you don't get cold hands. If you have both, it's like summer all year.

I think that you are always going to get heat loss just because a whole lot of cold air is rushing past them, thats why you need something that actually generates heat.

The main thing you need is insulation. The body is quite capable of keeping itself warm, provided the activity level is not completely zero.

Heated bike gear is not a substitute for insulation. It's just there to top up that little bit of heat the insulation can't retain.

Steve

[banditrider]

Yeah even permanent heated grips are thicker. It's one of those things you do and ignore the differences, or don't do, though I think permanent grips look thinner than the hot hands.

Heated grips are definitely a lot thinner than the hot hands. I've never noticed the difference between normal bike grips and heated ones but definitely noticed the difference when I got on my old man's bike - didn't like it at all. I also prefer wearing thinner gloves all year around as opposed to thicker gloves.