Heated Grips or Heated Gloves?

Why do you think I want warm hands? :smile:

 

I would worry about that, could be your body starting to pull away from heating your extremeties in an effort to conserve heat for the core.

 

Nut warmer

You want a BMW ... they have heated seats

 

Isn't that what a female passenger is for? :unsure:

 

I don't think that's the problem. I wear a heated vest under my leather Icon jacket w/liner, and my pair of Tour Master Venture pants with the liner. Aside from my fingertips I stay nice and toasty. I think it's just my long bony fingers. Thanks for looking out though.

 

You can get this adapted to any seat, several companies make kits where you can install it on any seat. Sargent also offers it already installed on some of their seats, although last time I checked not on the VFR seat. You may be able to get it custom done on a VFR seat from them.

 

neither....

 

no prob, I still would worry about it, the rest of you is warm, but your fingers are cold, at least the tips, once you start to lose sensitivity anywhere it is a warming sign. No matter how warm the torso is, the warm blood can cool off by the time it ghets to your finger tips - within reason of course. It isn't just happening, it is your body trying to tell you something. It may be because you have long thin fingers as you say, the blood has to travel further, and has less insulation. Maybe some of those metalic looking liners? the Michael jackson type ones!
:cheersaf:
a shorter ride you are probly fine, but a longer one may be trouble, or perhaps constantly having the shorter exposure could cause you problems down the road. I am no doctor though, so what do I know...

 

Hot Grips Ergo2

I have a set of Hot Grips Ergo2 ( Model Ergo2-520-760 - kit - for 7/8" Handlebars ) grips on my '07 FVR. These grips have two heat settings, low and high...

(Before I continue, let me say that when riding in chilly weather I wear a full complement of cold-weather riding gear such as First Gear's TPG heavy touring pants and jacket, Under Armor long underwear tops and bottoms, an Aerostich Kantesu heated fleece liner, Sidi high-top GoreTex boots, etc...)

When riding with a pair of non-bulky, insulated, cold-weather leather motorcycling gloves, I've found that the Ergo2 grips quickly become quite warm and toasty when just the 'low' heat setting is selected, even while riding at highway speeds in dry weather with ambient temperatures in the upper 30's.

If I then set the Ergo2's to their 'high' heat setting, within a short time my gloved hands become so hot that I can't stand the heat for long (my brow will even start sweating behind my full-face Shoei helmet), and it's not long before I'll switch the setting back to 'low', after which the Hot Grips are often rather slow to return to the lower temperature setting.

I've checked with the folks at Hot Grips about this, and they've assured me that this is normal, i.e., when the Ergo2's are set to 'high', they will soon become mighty hot. (FWIW, the BMW K1200GT's factory installed heated grips are just as alarmingly hot when they're set to their high-heat setting.)

So, my point is that if you're looking for hard-wired heated motorcycle grips, you might do well to purchase a set of Hot Grips. They'll get so warm when set to their 'high' mode that any chilling you've previously felt on the outer aspects of your gloved hands will soon feel really good since the palmar aspects of your gloved hands will likely be hotter than hell!

Do you really need to bother with a pair of heated gloves (with all the hassles of batteries, and/or wiring, etc.) when a good set of hard-wired heated grips such as the Ergo2's will generate prodigious amounts of heat on their own, assuming that you've first chosen a good pair of cold-weather riding gloves that will work well with these heated grips?