Heated Grips vs Heated Gloves
Road Warrior
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 1,493
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From: Belgium
Had them both when still living in miserably cold Northern Europe.
Heated grips are useless, your palms are toasting away and the back of your hand/fingers is freezing cold. They fail at the most importune time, usually in the middle of a long ride through the cold rain and are expensive to replace. Another annoying thing was that the left one usually is warmer than the right one. Right one also tends to fail first (all that twisting on the throttle I guess)
The Gerbing gloves were nice and not as bulky as the pair of winter gloves I used before the Gerbings.
The heated gloves and thermostat were pricey, but with some decent care they lasted me over 5 years. So all in all not that expensive! (When we left EU 2 years ago, I sold them on ebay ... as far as I know they still do duty)
Only draw back of gloves, they are slightly less convenient than the heated grips because of the wires and plugs.
Heated grips are useless, your palms are toasting away and the back of your hand/fingers is freezing cold. They fail at the most importune time, usually in the middle of a long ride through the cold rain and are expensive to replace. Another annoying thing was that the left one usually is warmer than the right one. Right one also tends to fail first (all that twisting on the throttle I guess)
The Gerbing gloves were nice and not as bulky as the pair of winter gloves I used before the Gerbings.
The heated gloves and thermostat were pricey, but with some decent care they lasted me over 5 years. So all in all not that expensive! (When we left EU 2 years ago, I sold them on ebay ... as far as I know they still do duty)
Only draw back of gloves, they are slightly less convenient than the heated grips because of the wires and plugs.
Last edited by Rakthi; Sep 28, 2010 at 09:45 AM.
Road Master
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 1,198
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From: Ft. Worth
You'll get used to it. The good, way out weighs the bad IMHO
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 1,022
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From: Sweden
Think on Gerbings website they have thermostats and connectors for one or two maybe more attachements/items and all the connections for bikes..even battery heated gloves I think but I would myself prefer connection to the bikes battery.. just read and heard only good about Gerbings..theyre top of my xmas list ...
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From: Leander Texas
my long sleeve lier has a junction box and wires to the wend of the sleeve for the gloves. before that i ran the glove wire down the lining of my leather jacket
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Joined: Sep 2010
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From: New England
I have the HD heated gloves. Love them. The wires are cumbersome as they attach to the sleeves of my heated jacket, which attaches to the cord coming up under my seat. But they work fine when you ride. 2 Thumbs up for heated gloves!