Gerbing heated gloves

[Ward8124]

www.gerbing.nl

Bought a set of these yesterday for £119 and i will be honest....they do cost a bit but my god are the worth every penny as i commute in from Cambridge everyday and my fingers are all nice and toastie now....just got to sort the pillion out as she doesnt have any just yet but i seriously recommend them if u do long distances in the cold.

:D

[diamond]

I was thinking of getting some of these for next winter. Are they easy and convienent to connect up?

[Ward8124]

I was thinking of getting some of these for next winter. Are they easy and convienent to connect up?

It took me 3 minutes to hook up to the battery mate so no worries at all. :D

[Ceri JC]

A doddle to connect the wiring (and remove over summer). No permanent "changes" to the loom required to use them, nor ugly controllers on the bars. No more flat batteries from heated grips. Even warmer than heated grips being used in conjunction with bar muffs. Heat the backs of your hand as well as the inside. Nowhere near as bulky/hard to control the bike with as they look like they would be. Look like they would offer v. good protection in a crash too.

My only slight gripe is that it can be hard to do the sleeves of my cruise jacket up over the glove when it rains, but that's as much the fault of the jacket as the gloves and is exacerbated by my choosing the "signature" version of the gloves with the oversized cuffs. I've also got their heated kidney belt for when it gets really cold and that is awesome too. Well worth it if you ride all year round.

[northwind]

I love mine... I added an external power socket for easy plugging in and out (and for easier battery charging) but it's not needed. Wouldn't be without them now, so much better than grips. Gerbing seem to be the ones to have, the Klan ones are nasty- like cheap snowboard gloves- and the less said about EXO Stormriders the better, they're very warm but so badly thought out (no curvature in the fingers for instance, and the visor wiper was so stiff I could barely bend my thumb- it's hard to believe they ever road tested them). You get about £50 worth of heater, but sewn into the sort of gloves you get for £5 at a bike show. Nasty.

No more flat batteries from heated grips.

That can only happen if you install them wrong though.

[Sean_C]

I love mine... I added an external power socket for easy plugging in and out (and for easier battery charging) but it's not needed. Wouldn't be without them now, so much better than grips. Gerbing seem to be the ones to have, the Klan ones are nasty- like cheap snowboard gloves- and the less said about EXO Stormriders the better, they're very warm but so badly thought out (no curvature in the fingers for instance, and the visor wiper was so stiff I could barely bend my thumb- it's hard to believe they ever road tested them). You get about £50 worth of heater, but sewn into the sort of gloves you get for £5 at a bike show. Nasty.



That can only happen if you install them wrong though.

Thanks for that post northwind, very informative. What's the protection like on Gerbing gloves?
I'm definitely getting some of these this winter, I did far too many miles with frozen hands last winter..

[northwind]

Looks decent, I'd want to crash in them before i say anything too nice (if you know what I mean) but they seem solid enough, fairly standard issue big glove stuff. Less protective than an armoured winter glove I'm sure, but then you're less likely to crash if your fingers all work :mrgreen:

[Stu]

the Klan ones are nasty- like cheap snowboard gloves- .
Bugg*r, was just about to buy them :( Oh well better hearing it from you than than finding out the expensive way.
Looks decent, I'd want to crash in them before i say anything too nice
Well get on with it, good man ;)

[Ceri JC]

That can only happen if you install them wrong though.

If by "wrong" you mean the way the instructions tell you to, then I'd have to disagree. Plenty of grips out there connect directly to the battery and have no way of detecting whether or not the bike is turned on. Yes, it's possible to stick a relay into the loom and wire them into that, but that's not the way most of them come out of the box.

[Ceri JC]

Well get on with it, good man ;)

Don't worry, I'll be able to post an extensive "crash review" of them come the January ice if past years are anything to go by. ;)

[rossinio]

These sound awesome, but which ones are they, and where did you get them?

[Ceri JC]

These sound awesome, but which ones are they, and where did you get them?

I have these:
http://www.poweredadventure.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=gerb_sig

I ordered them from Moto Brio.

I don't have experience of the "standard" gerbing gloves, but my advice would be to go for them, over the "signature" version, as the latter's larger cuff can be difficult to fit inside the sleeve of a jacket, which poses a problem when it rains.

[Stu]

Ceri, don't your signature ones come with a double cuff? one under your jacket & one over?

[Ceri JC]

Ceri, don't your signature ones come with a double cuff? one under your jacket & one over?

It has a double cuff, the inner one looks a bit small to offer much protection (looks like it could quickly fill with water). I must confess, I've not used it outside of the jacket in the rain yet; I've always tucked it inside, even though it's a faff/very tight fit. I'll try wearing the main cuff outside next time and report back as to how effective it is. Better to find out now rather than wait for it to get really cold. :)

[Stig]

Get them. There is nothing better out there for keeping your hands warm.

I have crash tested them. Just last week. Slid down the road palms down. They did not wear any quicker than any other glove I have, err, tested.

I had the signature gloves but found the cuffs a pain with my winter jacket. The gloves developed a fault and stopped working. I sent them back to Gerbing and got the older style back. I didn't bother complaining as I actually found them better.

I suffer from Raynauds. Basically anything below 10 degrees and I suffer like hell. With the Gerbing heated gloves I can ride in sub-zero temperatures and my fingers still stay warm. They heat the right parts of your hands that are exposed to the cold and wind.

Bloody perfect.

That is all.

[Ceri JC]

BA, before you sent them back, did you have and problems in the rain wearing [the signature gloves] with the main cuff outside the jacket?

[Bibio]

have a look at this review of the exo2 gloves...

http://mybikingrants.blogspot.com/2008/10/exo2-clothing-review.html

[Stig]

BA, before you sent them back, did you have and problems in the rain wearing [the signature gloves] with the main cuff outside the jacket?

No, the outside cuff has a draw string. That made quite a good water seal. However the toggle on the drawstring did break so I had to get some araldite to fix it.

I only wore them twice is bad weather, but neither time did my sleeves or hands get wet. Just found them too damn awkward to get right in the first place.

[maff]

i bought the gerbings socks tuther day, came this morning, fitted them earlier, had a test and felt warmth...so far so good.

so tomorrow i should have nice and warm tootsies :cool:

[Stu]

I have crash tested them. Just last week. Slid down the road palms down. They did not wear any quicker than any other glove I have, err, tested.
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They're wired into the bike right? so how did that fair? just quick release? or trashed?

[rossinio]

yeah, how did the wiring handle etc? also.. do you get the power cable to run from the battery to your gloves with them? is it a real pain to have a long dangling wire floating around when you arent using the gloves?

[Stig]

They're wired into the bike right? so how did that fair? just quick release? or trashed?

It's just a push in connection. I have to say anyone that has these gloves, it would pay to ensure the wiring on the bike is secured correctly. I have the connector wired and tie wrapped onto a sticky back pad which is stuck to the petrol tank close to the riders seat.

When the bike and I parted company the push in connection just disengaged. No damage to anything. Had the wire just been protruding out of the bike without being secured down, well I guess there is an added risk of the wires being chopped as it is pulled.

[Stig]

yeah, how did the wiring handle etc? also.. do you get the power cable to run from the battery to your gloves with them? is it a real pain to have a long dangling wire floating around when you arent using the gloves?

There are two harnesses. One to fit in the jacket the other on the bike. They just connect together. The wiring in the bike can stay there permanently. If nothing is plugged in, then there is no power draw, so no risk of the battery going flat. During the summer I just cut the tie wrap and coil the wire under the seat.

[Ceri JC]

Here's the way the wires go on mine: I use the gloves and kidney belt. There's a 'Y' cable going between both gloves and the (portable) temperature controller. This all goes inside my jacket/gloves. The single point of connection to the bike is wired to the battery terminals and comes out from underneath the pillion seat, allowing me to lock the wire away when I'm off the bike. A foot of wire from the controller comes out of the bottom of my jacket and plugs into the push connector on the bike. I have no fear that the connectors wouldn't pop apart in the event of a crash- there's no way it could 'tie' you to the bike or anything like that.

I'm ordering one of these:
http://www.ascycles.com/detail.aspx?ID=43308
to allow me to adjust the heating easily on the go. I'll wear it on the outside of my textiles at the waist.

[northwind]

If by "wrong" you mean the way the instructions tell you to, <snip> Yes, it's possible to stick a relay into the loom and wire them into that, but that's not the way most of them come out of the box.

Basically, if you install them without a relay then flatten the battery, it's because you've messed up. Twice, IMO. It's certainly not a fault of heated grips, just user error. It really makes very little sense to install them without an ignition switch, but it certainly makes no sense whatsoever to fit them without an ignition switch then complain when you inevitably leave them on :D

My hotgrips had instructions of how to relay them, and recommended that they be fitted with a relay, incidentally.

[Ceri JC]

NW: My Oxford hotgrips (old model) instructions explicitly warned against fitting them any way other than the way I described! :)

Back to the matter of the Gerbing Signature Gloves, Bigape, did the bit of fabric holding the toggle on yours break? Mine has on both gloves (which are practically new). It seems like a little thing and hardly worth the hassle of returning them over, but it makes it a lot more of a faff to put the gloves on. After the first one broke, I looked at how it was attached on the other glove and it looks like a design flaw, rather than a problem just with my gloves. I just wanted to see if this was the case.

I had a chance to test them in the rain on Monday and can confirm that unlike most gloves, they remain 100% waterproof when worn with the cuffs outside the jacket.

[Stig]

NW: My Oxford hotgrips (old model) instructions explicitly warned against fitting them any way other than the way I described! :)

Back to the matter of the Gerbing Signature Gloves, Bigape, did the bit of fabric holding the toggle on yours break? Mine has on both gloves (which are practically new). It seems like a little thing and hardly worth the hassle of returning them over, but it makes it a lot more of a faff to put the gloves on. After the first one broke, I looked at how it was attached on the other glove and it looks like a design flaw, rather than a problem just with my gloves. I just wanted to see if this was the case.

I had a chance to test them in the rain on Monday and can confirm that unlike most gloves, they remain 100% waterproof when worn with the cuffs outside the jacket.

Yes one of them broke almost straight away.

[philbut]

i have the same gloves as BA - another vote for them - they are F'in ace! my only gripe would be the faff of getting them on as already mentioned. Not tested the cuff in heavy rain yet, but it LOOKS alright - I'll have to wait and see.

[Stig]

i have the same gloves as BA - another vote for them - they are F'in ace! my only gripe would be the faff of getting them on as already mentioned. Not tested the cuff in heavy rain yet, but it LOOKS alright - I'll have to wait and see.

The real faff mate is the newer signature gloves. The inner cuff goes under your jacket the outer cuff goes err outside your jacket. They are way more of a faff than the ones we have.

[Ceri JC]

Ta for that BA, I have just emailed the supplier. I'll want a "repair" that is stronger than the original, or a replacement (plus the £10 difference back), rather than just another pair of signature gloves by the sounds of it.