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Old 21 Sep 2011
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Hi Ted I have a pair from warm n safe I use them along with the heated jacket Simply put they stop your hands from freezing but in really cold weather I think they still lose to much heat and I have still had numb fingers mind you without them on my hands would have totally frozen and a long time earlier - so put simply they do work but are still a bit limited. If you want to try them well you can borrow mine as I am not riding at the moment for various reasons so your welcome to borrow the gloves, heated jacket and troller for a month or two and give it a go - depending on your size. of course. That way you can make up your own mind. Drop me a PM . Jake.
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Hi Ted I have a pair from warm n safe I use them along with the heated jacket Simply put they stop your hands from freezing but in really cold weather I think they still lose to much heat and I have still had numb fingers mind you without them on my hands would have totally frozen and a long time earlier - so put simply they do work but are still a bit limited. If you want to try them well you can borrow mine as I am not riding at the moment for various reasons so your welcome to borrow the gloves, heated jacket and troller for a month or two and give it a go - depending on your size. of course. That way you can make up your own mind. Drop me a PM . Jake.
Wow Jake.. That's a very kind offer.

My body is fine with the gear I have but I just might take you up on the offer of the gloves as it gets colder..
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I've got a pair of Gerbings T5 heated gloves ( Gerbing's Heated Clothing // The World's Warmest Clothing! ), as well as their jacket liner. As Adventure950 said, they keep your fingers from freezing but you won't find yourself turning the heat down too often in really cold weather.

In addition to the T5s I also frequently wear those Spock type waterproof overgloves from Aerostitch Aerostich Triple Digit Rain Covers :: Aerostich/RiderWearHouse Motorcycle Jackets, Suits, Clothing, & Gear which help cut the wind and keep the heat in.

Because I've got three bikes, and ride them all, it made economic sense for me to have one pair of gloves instead of 3 sets of heated grips. Plus, the bikes keep changing so I'd have to keep buying grip heaters.

There's another product from Aerostitch that I considered and that's a wrap around grip heater ( Aerostich Warm Wrap Grips - Heated Grips & Accessories - Rider Comfort - A to B Utilities :: Aerostich/RiderWearHouse Motorcycle Jackets, Suits, Clothing, & Gear ) because of its portability between bikes. Just sayin'. OOOps, I see in your original post that you've already tried the overgrip heaters.

Oh, I have no affiliation with either of the companies mentioned above.

Take Adventure950 up on his offer to loan you the gloves and try them for yourself. That's my best advice.

Good luck. Nobody like riding with frozen digits.
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Circulation is the key to keeping hands warm, the exact issue Ted has. I usually reccomend a few physical jerks, a good breakfast, not wearing your summer jacket with three jumpers underneath and a decent winter glove/muff/hand guard combo as the way to enjoy winter rides. Electric heat is unreliable, the wires are a pain and the heat tends to be too localised.

If your circulation is bad though electric gloves have got to be the best answer. You could always buy resistance wire and make your own. The only difficult bit is soldering onto NiChrome wire, the trick is to clean it in brake fluid.

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Ted, you could try my electric undergloves as well but tbh they're f@cking useless. You do get heat from them but the cabeling drives you to distraction, the wires dig into your skin and they're really uncomfortable. I (genuinely) prefer cold hands, although I don't have the circulation probs you do. The ones I've got put most of the heat on the back of the hand (in the knuckles area) and not much on the fingertips.
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