Cold hands!

[m4rkw7]

Is anyone else suffering from cold hands and what have you used to combat it!
It's getting colder this week.

 

[ElliorR]

I have some silk gloves as inners. Heated grips are popular as are muffs. Apparently shoving your hands in muff is a good way to get them warm.

 

[Knubje]

I rode up to London Excel venue for MCN on Thursday morning. My toes and fingers were frozen! Body and legs are fine, just lots of layers.

I had two pairs of socks on, and put a 3rd on for the time I came home. Whilst at the event I bought myself a pair of nylon style under-gloves and some new gortex winter gloves. They worked a treat, although when you are doing 80mph and its zero degrees you are still going to feel the cold after a while.

For shorter distances and not as high speeds, those undergloves and layers sorted me right out. I'm just hoping I can continue to ride to work this week, fingers crossed for no snow/ice!

 

[metbandit1]

No problem with cold hands with my heated grips and hand guards

 

[Macky]

Do handguards make much of a difference?

 

[Griffo]

My left grip appears less warm than right so I tend to scream a bit on cold commutes lately!
I'll try the undergloves I think!

 

[m4rkw7]

I already tried undergloves, still freezing! Might try hand guards.

 

[bloodiedathame]

I warm hands my hands on the engine at red lights.

 

[Red_knight]

Engine warming at lights, and if you're off the bike for any length of time stick the gloves in the fairing next to the engine. Used to warm them on my exhaust before setting off, but can't do that anymore due to carbon fibre pipe.

 

[metbandit1]

Do handguards make much of a difference?

I think they do, the deflect most of the wind off while the grips do the heating!

 

[Morbius]

I have heated grips.

 

[MADMAN69UK]

Had heated grips on all my bikes, they're great

My new bike is naked however, so I think I'll be getting some of those Acerbis Dual Road Handguards to go with the heated grips. Toasty!

 

[gillywibble]

Do handguards make much of a difference?

They will do yes, as will muffs. The wind chill makes a huge difference and can even be felt with heated grips on full at speed.

 

[bluDawg]

I have electric gloves form a high street electronics retailer which take the chill off, but there not amazing

 

[Griffo]

I may consider some muffs/guards for next winter as even with grips my hands seem to have suffered. I've got cracked skin appearing!

This has never happened before so I put it down to riding through the winter and/or fairy liquid isn't all that.

 

[MADMAN69UK]

I may consider some muffs/guards for next winter as even with grips my hands seem to have suffered. I've got cracked skin appearing!

This has never happened before so I put it down to riding through the winter and/or fairy liquid isn't all that.

I'll be trying the Acerbis Handguards on my new Speed Triple, in conjunction with heated grips. I'll let u know if the handguards make any difference at all

 

[Red_knight]

What sort of effect do heated grips have on your battery life? (Assuming you don't do anything numptyish like leave them on when the bike's not running)

 

[metbandit1]

What sort of effect do heated grips have on your battery life? (Assuming you don't do anything numptyish like leave them on when the bike's not running)

Well if you dont do anything that stupid then nothing happens to your battery life as your bike charges it when your engines running.

Personally I had them wired into a light relay instead to make sure they do turn off when I turn the bike off.

 

[pheebs]

I suffer with renaulds which is a stupppido weird circulation thingy where... when my hands suddenly get cold a couple of my fingers turn white and lose all circulation. Takes a while to massage them back to normal.

Sooo... I think I will be heading for heated grips... especially since I will be tootling to Alaska as it's getting to the minus' in the next 7months!

 

[bakes0310]

Cant you just put your hands inside your jacket