Keeping your hands warm in cold riding weather.

[Garnet]

Reasonably priced heated grips:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/OXFORD-H ... ccessories

[Zombie Master]

best quality heated grips .

What are they?

http://www.hotgrips.com/

[George Ryals]

I keep water out of my waterproof gloves by wearing my jacket (waterproof) sleeves over the glove cuffs. It doesn't get too cold here for too long but it rains alot in winter and spring.

[Major Softie]

Actually, I remember another manufacturer that had waterproof switches and the option of a variable temp control. Can't remember who it is, but I liked their switch assemblies best. Keep Googling and perhaps you'll find them.

[Zombie Master]

Actually, I remember another manufacturer that had waterproof switches and the option of a variable temp control. Can't remember who it is, but I liked their switch assemblies best. Keep Googling and perhaps you'll find them.

http://www.hotgrips.com/

[Steve78RS]

Steve

A few of my mates in the know say GS handguards are the go. I've got Munich MCs trying to source a set for me. I think they are the old 80s GS type, came in black or white. I've got a feeling they will stop that wind chill effect that you lucky buggers with the RS fairing don't get to feel.

My RS to S conversion has certainly reacquainted me with wind chill and wet hands.

I'll keep in touch when I find a price.

Steve from Dubbo

[dougie]

Steve

A few of my mates in the know say GS handguards are the go. I've got Munich MCs trying to source a set for me. I think they are the old 80s GS type, came in black or white. I've got a feeling they will stop that wind chill effect that you lucky buggers with the RS fairing don't get to feel.

My RS to S conversion has certainly reacquainted me with wind chill and wet hands.

I'll keep in touch when I find a price.

Steve from Dubbo

Today I will get a picture of my bike with the GS handguards and post it.
(Don't remember which model they came from.)

[Sibbo]

A good thread fellas .My Matilda ,an ST ,has a set of trail bike bark busters (ugly but servicable ) and heated grips .The heated grips are great but I found recently that even with then an exposed finger that had the full airflow on it turned all while and numb .

I can see a set of homemade Hippo hands in my future .They would solve all problems .

I have a pet phobia about cold hands after a little trip via Lithgow in August .I found my arms and hands numb and without feeling below the elbows ,at the end of a 500 km run at about 1 am .It took 15 minutes to talk my hands into releasing the throttle and letting me pull in the clutch .I was wearing 3 pair of gloves ! About 25F .

I love my heated grips !

[SteveD]

A couple of common sense approaches...

• always leave gloves on a radiator/heater in the house whilst getting prepared for the ride.
• always try (wherever possible) to put warm hands into warm gloves before “setting out”.
• when stopping, always place gloves somewhere warm (eg top of the engine) or inside something when not in use.

[dougie]

I think these are the same for all bikes with the rectangular master cylinder on the handlebars.