Originally Posted by lh4x4

I ride every winter. Three of the bikes that I have used had heated grips. For the others I use heated gloves. The heated grips have out performed the gloves every time. The issue with no fairing so that the wind will cool the grips. Really? With your hands around them the wind does not get to the grips however it will cool the heated gloves.

It was in the mid thirties and raining in the Canadian Rockies on the Alaskan trip that I did. I only was wearing thin mechanics gloves. The bike was a Buell Ulysses XT. The heated grips had two settings of high and low. I had them on low and periodically had to turn them off as they got too hot. I laugh every time I hear a comment that the tops of your hands will get cold. Who evers says that does not understand that the blood that gets heated by the grips circulates through the entire hand. They did a great job on that trip.

With the heated gloves that I use on the Sportster from the mid thirties down can not keep up with the cooling by the wind. I carry some large plastic rain mittens to pull over them to keep the temperature up.

I also have wind breakers for the grips that I got at a snowmobile store. Here is a picture of them on a bike. They attach with velcro straps so I can move them from bike to bike. But in the twenties I still need to cover the heated gloves or add heat packs.

I save money on the bikes without heated grips by just using an adaptor that connects to the tender lead and the other end is the RCA connector to the gloves instead of adding a glove RCA connector to each bike.

From my years of experience heated grips are the best.

Originally Posted by cHarley

Just an FYI - heated grips work best on bikes with a fairing (baggers) that blocks the wind from hitting your fingers/hands.
Unless you have a fairing or wind guards, you might want to consider heated gloves, like these from Gerbing.

Originally Posted by lh4x4

Gary: I am about 150 miles west of Halsted at the I-80 ramp. I used to live in Hazel Crest until I retired. Where do you meet? If there is a clear Sunday sometime through the winter I would like to get in a 300 mile ride on I-80.

Those are just a wind deflector not full fledged Hippo Hands which I think are out of production. I got a set of Polaris version with no fleece lining but you insert your hands into them. They push on the brake lever and that's not good.

With the Gerbings I slip the big oversized orange mittens over them and can keep my hands warm into the teens. I got those in the 70's to help direct traffic when at an accident in a rain storm. Don't remember where I got them and have never seen them anywhere since. A little hard to do some controls with them like the turn signals.