Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

My experience is different. I have a heated waistcoat but it simply was not enough to keep my hands warm. It may have been because it did not have heated sleeves as well but the waistcoat alone did not work for me.

To be honest I would get a both a waistcoat and heated grips

sam

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

Or you could just wear a fleece / normal bodywarmer? I've met people who swear by their amazing heated gear but they're no warmer than me with thermals and a fleece on a rideout.

I did about 100 miles on Monday with a shirt and a textile jacket (without winter liner in) and it was a bit unpleasant but would have been fine with a fleece or the winter liner.

It doesn't matter how high your core temperature is, try riding in the winter with naff gloves and see how much it helps - bar muffs or heated grips are necessary then.

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

If anyone gets the maplins fleece I would be interested to know how they find it.

Cheers,

John

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

I got the waist coat from maplins last year. Its alright but you do get what you pay for, the heating elements are only in the front and are about the size of 50p pieces there are 3 either side of the zip.

Takes a while to warm up aswell.

Not a bad investment, but as mentioned you would be better layering up. Go to your local Millets or Blacks and look at the base layers there, they work I know as i got some cheap when I worked there.

My current riding gear for the cold is:

Buffalo textile trousers with thermal lineing, and jeans under that.
Alpinestars ER-5 Textile jacket with removeable lining,
Thick Hoody
Long sleeved shirt
Base layer
Balaclarva
Neck tube
Alpinestars Jet Road Gore-tex Gloves.
Alpinestars GPS-3 boots

Only problem is that my fingers get cold, so i'm investing in heated grips.

Just my 2p

Pete

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

Which is why I mentioned getting a proper heated jacket

Can you move with all that on ;)

During week
Work trousers
Belstaff overs (without the liner)
Short sleeved shirt
Widder (been used twice so far this year)
Belstaff tour jacket (with liner)
Boots, gloves n Lid

Weekends the lower bits are covered in just leather and maybe rain suit

Total freedom of movement and warm :)

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

yeah that does sound like quite the myriad of layers

i currently wear 2 (including leathers) with gloves, summer boots and lid

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

+1

& if the heating things are not great £20 for a fleece is not the end of the world

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

Or you could become stupid like me......My equipment to get to work this morning consisted of......

Jeans
Alpinestars boots
Hoodie under alpinstars summer non waterproof jacket
Richa Summer gloves
obviously my shoei, however without balaclava or any other type of neck warmer.

It was pretty cold.

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

This is going to be my 13th winter of riding, so I'm used to the cold. I've only every had heated grips on my first Honda 125 that I passed my test on. I've never tried heated clothing or gloves. I was wearing five layers this morning - t-shirt, shirt, fleece, jacket liner and jacket, so my body was warm nice and warm. My hands were still freezing, even with Texport Defender Pro gloves.

Mrs Wyrdness has been nagging me to get some heated clothing, so I've just ordered the Jett heated vest as WebBikeWorld gave it a great review and awarded it Motorcycle Product of the Year.

If my hands are still cold, then I may get the Chili heated glove liners too, though I'll need new gloves as well, as my current gloves are too snug to allow a liner.

Re: Staying warm on a bike
 

I saw some gloves on ebay from america. They have a liquid that holds heat in them, you stick them in the microwave for 2 minutes and they stay warm for upto 1 hr.

Infact there is a few products about like this that could work the same way if produced into winter gloves in the right way.