Heated Grips - why are the Ducati ones so expensive
 

Been thinking about fitting heated grips for the winter ( JPM don't even think about the ageist comment I know will have gone through your mind when you saw this thread go up :P) saw the Ducati ones on Ducati Store website but can't believe the price, £230 eek. :o

Anyone know if thats what all dealers charge for them or of any good options??

Don't buy heated grips - they're not the answer to keeping your hands warm!

At low temperatures the body shuts down extremities to keep it's "core" alive - who needs limbs anyway? Thus to keep your hands and feet warm you are better off keeping your body warm.

Go for a heated bodywarmer instead and you'll find that your arms and feet stay warm too. All you need is a plug under the seat and you can use it when you want. It also means no unsightly grips on your bike through the summer months, and they're cheaper and less hassle to fit too.

I saw the title and I couldn't believe it!!! Sorry but you are officially OLD! :P

Antony has got it dead right.

I've tried heated, grips, gloves, waistcoats, willy warmers, everything for riding thru winter and the waistcoat is by far the best IMHO.

heated grips do help as in you can wear thinner gloves when its cold though, but thay work better with either a full fairing (not on a Multi) handguards, handle bar muffs, or 2 litre plastic milk cartons cut open, used as handguards, which look really NICE!:D

Silk gloves under some Hein Gericke lobster gloves are the best, and of course the heated waistcoat.

Problem is i have poor circulation, ( i shouldn't have said that with JPM lurking) I can keep my body as warm as I like but my hands and feet get cold :( Too many years spent riding pedal bikes in winter has taught me that one

As Shaun says I'll fit handguards to keep wind off then a good thin thinsulate lined glove but i want somehing to keep me icle fingers from going blue.

We know we are old, one day you too will be old and will own your dream bike and trailer until then please go back to your room and close the door quietly :)

Mike

i think your age is just right, perfect in fact, ignore them young farts;)

NURSE!!! They're at the computer again .... can you wheel them away?

OK I will probably regret this but I have had two R1100S's. Last one was a boxer cup replika (trying to justify myself here!).

Anyway, being a BMW it came with heated grips. Being BMW it came with two settings, hot and meltingly hot.

However if I wore thicker gloves for the winter, it stopped the heat coming through. If I wore thinner gloves, my hands were nice and warm on the palms but cold on the back.

I settled for medium thickness gloves (Alpinestars gortex) on a hot setting and found them pretty good. BUT I agree, pointless if the rest of you is cold.

Having been used to them I would be lying if I said I hadnt considered them again, but I dont ride my Ducati enough in the winter to warrant it.

On prevous bikes when I was commuting all weathers I tried 'Oxford Muffs' and found them no good at all.

Heated grips work if you get decent ones, I have tried cheap ones and they dont work & look crap too. If you are going to get them, get the proper ones, even see if BMW fit them, and get a heated vest. That combination would see you through most things I would have thought.

Now I will await the onslaught of having been a BMW rider with heated grips. Bring it on!!!:cool:

Children of the 50's who've never grown old Shaun :)

Meant to ask, where were you born ??

I had a few hours where i considered a GS, even went as far as phoning the dealer for a test ride. After I was released from the Psychiatric ward the urge had gone, bought a KTM supermoto instead so whatever they'ed given me worked :)

Fully agree on the thiner gloves, i would rather have control of bike and be able to feel bars with a thin glove and heaters than a thick pair numbing the feel.

"Fully agree on the thiner gloves, i would rather have control of bike and be able to feel bars with a thin glove and heaters than a thick pair numbing the feel."

Think you are right. I would go with that.

And yes I was born in the fifties, mentally in the seventies - you are as old as the woman you feel!!:P

agreed :lol::lol:

I was actually born in Cheshire, but moved upto Gods Country when Mum and Dad got me a job down the pit at the age of 18 months old.:lol:

I was just thinking how funny it would have been if you were born at Dryburn Hospital, Durham. We might have been there at same time .

Why did your parents wait till 18 months?? it was my first birthday treat, i got to work in a 6 inch high seam :)

Gizmo, you might try contacting Overipe & Keen either through here or on Multistrada.net as he had some heated grips attached to his Multistrada. I am sure he said he had got them through a company that supplies them for those snowmobile type things. I know I laughed at the time but I met up for a ride out with him last winter and had a go on his bike and they were excellent. I think he only paid about £30 for them. I really did not want to swap bikes back they were that good! I hate thick gloves and have tried those silk inner gloves which help a lot but still lose a lot of feel with them.

Geated grips are fantastic
 

I use the velcro'd, Oxford "Hot hands" on my 998, so I can easily take them off for summer, and I think they are the one thing thet help me to keep riding all year round. I use the same leathers all year round (euuwww, must wash them next year too) and just slip a thicker t-shirt on underneath if tis below 5 degrees outside.
Heated waistcoats! PAH! Whatever next, hot-pants :smug:

[Edited on 6-8-2005 by psychlist]

Paul ... :o:o:o

Geated grips are fantastic

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Are you a ventriloquist?

Do! I gust sneezed nid-sentence!