I discovered a solution to cold weather riding - It's called a "trickle charge." When it gets too cold to ride I put trickle charge on the bike's battery and take the f **king car...

Damn... I got the winter forum fever...

 

Tony P
Best answer I have seen so far!!!!
Also you have great pics!!!

 

You've got to be kiddin. Battery powered gloves at that temperature? Why don't you all grow a set and ride.

 

I am about a year late in providing a review on these Venture Heat gloves, but I will take the time to provide a few notes now that this thread has been reactivated.

As advertised, these gloves come with four settings. The lowest setting is supposed to provide up to 8 hours of heat, with the highest setting providing two hours.

For my routine commute to work, I have been charging the batteries on the weekend and getting a weeks worth of heat for my 30 mile commute using the lowest heat setting. I wear UnderArmour glove liners inside the heated gloves. The temperatures are typically in the 25-35 degree range. My hands are not toasty, but they don't get numbingly cold either like they used to with good cold weather leather gloves. Here in lower Alabama, I only need the heat in the morning, so I don't have to turn them on for the return home later in the day.

In late January, I took a trip to north Georgia. I charged the gloves before I left Alabama and did not need them on the trip to Georgia. However, on the morning I left Georgia, the temperature had dipped to 18 degrees. I set the heat at about the mid-range where I should get about four hours of heat, for I expected to switch over the regular leather cold weather gloves later in the day as the temps rose. My hands stayed plenty warm, and the gloves still had power when I switched them off about three hours into the trip.

The gloves are expensive, but they have increased the number of days that I ride --- especially for those winter trips to north Georgia. The batteries are supposed to take up to 300 charges, so I should get five years use out of the batteries without any trouble. By the time these batteries expire, a new and better technology may be developed.

 

And you responding to which of the 20 posts above? Or, is the quote function to complicated for you?

 

The gloves are for hikers? And yet HD never mentions that fact, as they sell these gloves with "Harley Davidson" clearly affixed, in motorcycle dealerships. Wonderful.

 

I guess I need to clarify my last comment on the Gerbing/HD battery powered gloves not being for motorcycle use.

In the US, up until the Spring of this year, the only Gerbing/HD battery powered gloves available were of the 7.4 volt variety. These were listed as not recommended for motorcycle use, as they lacked the power and wind insulating properties to function well for use on a motorcycle.

This past Spring, Gerbing introduced the 12 volt Hybrid glove which works optionally from an internal 12v battery, or can be plugged into the bikes 12v electrical system. These gloves are designed for motorcycle use.

BTW, HD's heated gloves are made by Gerbing for HD, but Gerbing's warranty is better than HD's.

 

I dunno bout them, I purchased some glove liners that are battery heated, only used them once, but they have the heater element running around each of the fingertips, they seemed to work ok.

 

The Gerbing price, now that I've looked it up, is a lot better, too.

 

HD doesn't sell the battery powered gloves. They sell the wired gloves.