Rider in training
Heated grips?
With the slight chill starting to set in I'm thinking I would like to avoid the cold hands like I did last winter, and I'm tempted to splurge out on some heated grips.
Although Oxford grips are popular, the constant posts about their controller failures makes me weary of that brand.
Are there other brands that people are using and would care to recommend?
Grumpy Old Bastard
There's Daytona. They don't have quite the same degree of control as Oxford...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Double shot!!
How many threads have we just had on this topic?
Steve
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Grumpy Old Bastard
Ermmmm...lessee....ummm..27?Originally Posted by DangerousBastard
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Forum whore
22 with the words 'heated grips' in the title only back until 2003.
Last edited by onearmedbandit; 23rd April 2010 at 13:31.
Little Miss Adventure
I have symtech heated grips, and I really like them.
The road to hell is paved...
Rider in training
Yeah, I read many of them - but they were mostly talking about broken grips, grips not working, etc. A lot of them had "oxford" in them.
What I want to know is - which ones work well and are reliable.
Trainer wheels optional
I have Daytonas, fitted in 1999, transferred them from cycle to cycle, still work like the day they were purchased. Downside, they have an 'on' setting' and a 'preheat' setting. I have connected them to a timer to the preheat setting so I can regulate the output. I would buy same again.
Forum whore
How about this thread?
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...t=heated+grips
Rider in training
Good thread. Thank you.
parting of the sensory
You're worrying too much, Mr Dath.
The first set of Oxfords on my VFR lasted at least 4.5 years (they were on my VFR when I bought it, had been for some time by the looks of them, and expired last year). The current set (a year old?) are the newer ones with solid-state controllers and are doing fine. I'd buy them again, even if they expired next week.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Hardcore Biker
Oxfords, this is my third set, I wear them out at about 60,000k's rubber gets a bit thin then the wires start to poke out, the last time it happened the Oxford rep gave me a new set for free, apart from that never a problem with my oxfords..
<- A new way to take a rubber!
The controller frying incidents seem to be related to other peripherals. Such as HID headlamp ballast / switchgear. We've had 2 pairs on 2 bikes (not one bike as you can imagine, because it would be hard to have 2 pairs on one bike as you could imagine). And in the 1+ years (or part thereof) we've had them, they've stayed on, that is attached, not on as in switched on, because we wouldn't keep them on over summer.
But they work good.
Forum whore
Actually, while we are on the subject, would there be any issues (say current etc) if I was only to run one warmer?
Deus ex ukulele
None whatsoever.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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