Heated Hand Grip Experience
What on earth makes you think they would fail in 2 months???
Road Warrior
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,276
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From: SE SC
Spend the money on heated gear. Gloves and a jacket liner (which will keep your core warm) are a helluva lot more effective than just keeping the inner part of your hand warm. I used to have heated grips,and they'd last about 3-4 years, then the elements would wear out----take longer to heat up. I've been riding year round with heated gear for the past 3 years.....best $$ I've spent on comfort for winter riding. FWIW.
Road Master
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,138
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From: Littleton CO
I have a 13 Limited with factory heated grips, not an issue with them, work great. I also have heated gloves and jacket liner. I find at times I use both the heated grips and gloves to keep my hands at just that perfect toasting temperature.
Elite HDF Member
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 4,928
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From: Near Myrtle Beach, SC
My 2010 grips still going strong. Agree that proper gear trumps heated grips, everytime. And proper gear is not cheap gear either. You get what u pay for with proven gear. ( including good gloves)
Tourer
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 326
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From: Wilmette, Illinois
My experience is that they last for a couple of years and then they fail. We have been through two sets on my old bike and two sets on my wife's bike. Basically given up on them now. We have heated jacket liners and gloves if we need them. Use the liners pretty often, hardly ever use the gloves. We did use the grips more often when they worked.
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Road Warrior
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,321
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From: Shorewood IL
I don't have stock heated grips, I went with Avons that had Heat Demons and they have worked well for two seasons. I will say that one of my next purchases will be heated gear. The grips are good at keeping the palm of the hand warm, but the outside of the hand, in the wind, still gets cold when I'm leaving the house for work in the morning and the temps are in the high 30's low 40's.
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