Stupid weather!

TripleT · 14 Jan 2014 at 20:54

Ok handlebar muffs, talk to me. Incredibly gay or ok?

Fingertips genuinely hurt after my 50min commute at the minute. Got decent winter gloves and tried some thin under gloves this morning and they did chuff all but made it harder to stretch them to try and warm them up.

Heated grips I doubt wouldn't make a difference for my fingertips I imagine.

Annoying as I'm a warm person but I just can't get my fingertips warm!

edd1e · 14 Jan 2014 at 21:10

TripleT said:
Incredibly gay

Fireskull · 15 Jan 2014 at 09:55

Incredibly gay....

But you can get away with it on something like a GS adventurer or similar type of bike.

agnes · 15 Jan 2014 at 10:01

I would spend the money on heated grips mate... I have them and have 3 settings, low, mid and high. High should be called lava...

I wear Alpinestar 365 gloves, they are all season gloves but hardly designed for winter. And my hands stay nice and warm on medium in temps lower than 10C, and if below 1C I go to MOTHER CHUFFING LAVA!!!! Keeps my hands very warm, maybe too hot from time to time.

Fingertips, yet, they still get a little cold, but not as much. I would suggest heated gloves but I've never used them.

Now I've ridden with heated grips, don't think I can go back

Griffo · 15 Jan 2014 at 19:33

Whew. I went to Ghent in the end for a few days. Then Ieper. Good time. Knackered.

Also heated grips: ditto. I dunno how I managed on the old sv without!

agnes · 17 Jan 2014 at 19:07

How was it mate??? Enjoy Gent? Please tell me you went to the troll bar and tried out some of the beers? I went in there feeling fine, walked out with a numb face and legs made of jelly!

Griffo · 18 Jan 2014 at 21:31

Son of a horse! I missed that particular bar! Need a drinking partner next time though I think.

Now I have an excuse to go back though, thanks!

And yeah, I liked it a lot. I stayed at the Monasterium Poortackere. That walk over the bridge when you see one tower, a second tower, a third tower... amazing.

agnes · 18 Jan 2014 at 22:47

Yea, glorious town! Let me know next time you go, I will join you and show you the said bar!

On topic for the weather, I am very annoyed, today was meant to be sunny and I wanted to do a full clean on the bike

But nope, will have to try do it tomorrow.

NooBish AbbZ · 18 Jan 2014 at 23:01

agnes said:
I would spend the money on heated grips mate... I have them and have 3 settings, low, mid and high. High should be called lava...

I wear Alpinestar 365 gloves, they are all season gloves but hardly designed for winter. And my hands stay nice and warm on medium in temps lower than 10C, and if below 1C I go to MOTHER CHUFFING LAVA!!!! Keeps my hands very warm, maybe too hot from time to time.

Fingertips, yet, they still get a little cold, but not as much. I would suggest heated gloves but I've never used them.

Now I've ridden with heated grips, don't think I can go back

What heated grips do you have? i'm going to be getting some for my next bike once i've passed my test

TripleT · 18 Jan 2014 at 23:24

By the way I've decided to mtfu and not bother with either!

agnes · 19 Jan 2014 at 10:14

NooBish AbbZ said:
What heated grips do you have? i'm going to be getting some for my next bike once i've passed my test

They are the ones that come with the bike. So part of Ducati. Not sure who they use. Probably their own design as it's all controlled by the normal computer.

edd1e · 19 Jan 2014 at 10:31

Buy a set of BMW heated grips for 12k, get an S1000RR free