Gerbing heated gloves

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.

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

Originally Posted by e.d.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Ceri JC

No more flat batteries from heated grips.

That can only happen if you install them wrong though.

Originally Posted by 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.



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

[Stu]

Originally Posted by northwind

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.

Originally Posted by northwind

Looks decent, I'd want to crash in them before i say anything too nice

Well get on with it, good man

Originally Posted by northwind

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.

Originally Posted by Stu

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.