Heated grips advice?

got these for my previous bike stood up well to a journey from redditch to aberystwyth and back again in late November took about an hour to fit on it was a fiddily job on my old bike cheep and nasty bike though. Grips are excelent, Always hot actuly can start to burn abit if you forget and leve them on high!! if your only going around town nice chunky feel to them while riding

I had some of the Heine Gericke ones at about £50 (oxford do identical ones too)... really easy to fit, just attach red wire to battery, black wire to frame and then use cable ties to hold all in place, they were really good for the whole day I had them on before my bike got stolen I'm thinking about getting heated gloves next tho as the grips are good but they only heat the palms of your hands leaving your knuckles and backs of your hands to freeze! The gloves go from about £80 to £150 as far as I know.

ive got the heated grips, just waiting for delivery now, i just bought a fuse holder from halfords, im going to splice them to the headlights and have the fuse between the headlights/heaters

got the r&g grips fitted yesterday ( got someone else to do it cos i don't know what i'm doing) and they seemed to work well on my way home.
I have no experience of heated grips so cannot compare to over makes but the instructions said not to be used with bare hands so i was expecting them to get red hot, however they don't get too hot but whilst riding they heat through the gloves very well, and as someone else said the left hand side seems to cool off or not get as hot as the right hand side but this is only minimal and it still does the job well.
all in all i'm impressed with them.

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by custard

got a pair, for the price they are good. lhs seems to cool down quicker than rhs at speed for some reason.

The left grip is on the handlebar, the right grip is better insulated from the metal of the handlebar by the twistgrip tube.

Knew I has some photos..

Originally Posted by The Guru

I have Symtec heater elements fitted. I fitted mine earlier last year (2010).. they're really easy to fit and work well. 3 stage (High / Low / Off) rocker switch fitted on 'dash' looks like it was fitted to the bike in the factory.

Originally Posted by Nobbylad

...Exactamundo!....the rocker looked like it was meant to be there as opposed to a fugly box somewhere on the bars.

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

The left grip is on the handlebar, the right grip is better insulated from the metal of the handlebar by the twistgrip tube.

I wrapped a few layers of insulation foil tape around the bars before fitting the heater elements. The foil is good to 200c so it should be fine and so far so good.





And a wee bit insulation tape on the edges to stop them turning up when slipping the grips back on.