I picked up my heated jacket and gloves from the dealer this week. I was off off work early today so I decided it was a good time to install the harness and try them out.

Installing the battery harness was easy -- just a matter of ungrounding the battery and connecting up the harness and connecting the battery back up. The end of the harness -- the plug -- tucks up under the front of my seat nicely and cannot be seen when not in use. I liked that.

Anyways -- I had a short sleeve shirt on, the jacket liner, leather jacket, gloves, jeans and boots. Weather was sunny, windy in the low 50's.

Everything worked great. I tried the gloves and jacket on full power (I have the dual thermostat) and was real hot. In fact after about five minutes I began to sweat! So I rolled the jacket down to half power -- and still sweated. My hands were nice and toasty as well. So I have no doubt that these things will work great in sub-freezing weather.

The gloves are HUGE. The gaunlet part must come up 1/3 to 1/2 way up my forearm. I was actually afraid they'd be hard to drive with. But as large as they are, they are quite supple and I had no issues whatsoever. Anbd absolutely ZERO wind came up my sleeve -- that is impossible with these gloves.

Anyways...just thought I'd share. I can't wait to try this stuff out when it gets real cold. I am excited to think I may be able to extend my driving season to include most of the year. I'll check back in after my first ride in the 20s.

 

Just got the gloves myself. Nice. I still can't get used to the wires.

 

Have a vest myself and really like it. Thanks for the input on the gloves.

 

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After years of reading reports from riders raving about the heated gear, I finally broke down and bought a heated vest, arm chaps, and gloves. Would see reports from others noting "What took me so long?". I said the same after the first winter of riding with this gear. I know some car drivers look at me and think I must be freezing, when reality is I'm baking.

 

Thanks for the review, I've been looking at the gloves myself.

 

HEATED GRIPS ARE THE *****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

CosmicHD - which brand did you buy? Seems I have been one of the ones wondering if everyone raves about their heated gear due to the investment... year after year I keep freezing. The time may have come....

 

ive wanted heated gear for a while- but i just never got around to buying it.

hmmmmmmm........ my christmas list IS kinda blank. [8D]

 

I have the Gerbing heated gear & love it. Thinking about updating the gloves to the new waterproof version. Has anyone tried those? I'm worried that they may be too stiff.