Hot hands: heated grips or gloves?

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

I don't enjoy anything about a ride where I spend more of my mental energy focused on staying warm than on enjoying the ride.

Hence why I (personally) HAVE heated gear. WITH it...there is no fatigue associated with shivering, or mental drain. The RIGHT heated gear can be as comforting as an electric blanket. As a matter of fact, the days I commute on the bike in the cold weather, I arrive at the office a great deal warmer than the days I take the cage. And I typically STAY warmer thruout the day, where I'm normally a little chilly in the office.

[CrazyKell]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

Hence why I (personally) HAVE heated gear. WITH it...there is no fatigue associated with shivering, or mental drain. The RIGHT heated gear can be as comforting as an electric blanket. As a matter of fact, the days I commute on the bike in the cold weather, I arrive at the office a great deal warmer than the days I take the cage. And I typically STAY warmer thruout the day, where I'm normally a little chilly in the office.

Meh. I don't live in a locale that offers year round ride (despite what others might say). It's a fact of my life that I have to put the bike away in the fall and get it out in spring.

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

Meh. I don't live in a locale that offers year round ride (despite what others might say). It's a fact of my life that I have to put the bike away in the fall and get it out in spring.

True.....and that would drive me NUTS. use too...(before Al Gore sent us into a polar nuclear winter) we would get the occational 70 degree day in Jan/feb and it'd be on like donkey king, so the bikes are always ready...but this year it's been 50's that bring all the bikes out

[MILK]

Before I had heated grips I didn't like to ride below 40. After the heated grips I can comfortably ride down to 30, with my winter gloves on of course.

Another thing I LOVED about heated grips is that getting caught in the rain isn't so miserable. Even in the summer, I don't have rain resistant gloves so even temps in the 60's with rain they really made a difference.