View Poll Results: Who's Heated Jacket or Vest do you own? More than one? Pick your favorite.

First Gear

2.00%

Gerbing

64.00%

Harley-Davidson

26.00%

PowerLet

ProForm

TourMaster

7.00%

Venture

WarmGear

1.00%

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Heated Jacket Liners & Vests

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Dec 9, 2010 | 03:55 PM

#31

DaFish

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From: On the shores of the Big Frozen Pond

I've had a Widder Vest now for several years. It works well and has never let me down. Widder is no longer in business though :-(

DaFish

Dec 9, 2010 | 04:29 PM

#32

bdp

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From: Third Coast, South Texas

I had the HD jacket liner and gloves for two years now and no problems. If I had to do it again I'd go directly to Gerbing.

Heres the way it went down the day Gerbing started making gear for HD.

HD - The price is to high
Gerbing - Quality is expensive
HD - Cut some corners and lower the price to us so we can compete.
Gerbing - Ok, we'll take the heat out of the collar and instead of a sewn in bulk head connector we'll just have the wires dangling out of the jacket.
HD- Cool, so now your jacket is $160 and we can sell our HD branded jacket for about the same price and no ne will even notice the difference.

Gerbing = Life time warranty
HD 1 year but heard if you send it to Gerbing they will take care of you.

Never knew the difference till I compared my HD to my buddies Gerbing

Dec 10, 2010 | 01:29 PM

#33

fat_tony

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Joined: Dec 2009

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From: Potsdam, NY

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Originally Posted by Evil_keeps_me_young

i have tourmaster jacket liner, pants liner and gloves, gerbing insoles. tour master and gerbing use the same plugs if anyone is interested... i like both, the only thing that gets cold is my face from having to open my helmet because of fogging...

Anti fog spray!

Dec 10, 2010 | 04:03 PM

#34

Intrepid175

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Joined: Mar 2007

Posts: 1,383

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From: Texas City, TX

I've got a Gerbing vest and gloves. They are over 10 years old now and still work just fine. Living on the Texas Gulf Coast, I don't use them very often but am glad I've got em when I do need them.

Dec 12, 2010 | 01:53 AM

#35

Dustball

Road Master

Joined: May 2008

Posts: 766

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From: SoCal Desert

Riding gear is no place to go cheap as it'll come back around and bite you dead in the ***. I'm a year round rider and I want dependability and a company that'll stand behind their product in the event of failure. Yes I've had occasion to use their warranty (self inflicted dumbass) and they replaced a jacket liner at no cost. Only Gerbing stuff for me.

-Dusty

Dec 12, 2010 | 02:59 AM

#36

ulev1st

Tourer

Joined: Nov 2010

Posts: 339

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From: Memphrica...a homicide daily!

Only had mine for a week...LOVE it so far...2 days of riding 100 + miles per day at 60-80 mph in 30 ish degree weather!

Dec 12, 2010 | 08:26 AM

#37

flhxkiller

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Joined: Oct 2009

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From: se michigan

I ended up with the HD liner and single portable controller, got it at a 20% discount making it less than I could buy the gerbings. And the HD controller has the pouch to clip to your belt included for $60, the gerbing controller is $69.95 plus $10.95 for the belt clip.

Dec 12, 2010 | 09:11 AM

#38

bagga

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Joined: Mar 2006

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i have 2 eclipse electric vests. they are about 20 years old and are out of business. 1 of them stopped working so i started to look on the web on how to fix it. i searched for "repair electric vest" and "homemade electric vest". i got the wire for the repair at radio shack, it's 30 ga. and a roll of it was about $5 a few years ago. i used 39 ft. of wire in the vest i made. if you use less wire it will be hotter. there are detailed instructions if you search. my wife and i made about 8 electric vests over the last few years. we got some fleece vests at goodwill stores for about $6 and the inner insulated liner from walmart. wire from radio shack. it takes about 5 hours and you will need any ordinary sewing machine. 2 pole flats, switch, and anything else you might need comes from a hardware store. we have about $25 and a few hour's of time in each one we made.