Originally Posted by northwind

The SV can deal with heated grips fine, don't worry about blowing up your new reg/rec- if it's going to blow up, it will anyway They're not massively effective when combined with heavy winter gloves, but every little helps. Heated gloves are better still of course, I'm considering these myself- never seen a pair yet that looked as protective as my winter gloves though, in fact they all look about as well put together as the no-name gloves you can buy at bike shows for a tenner

I don't like muffs... (hur hur, etc) because I find them awkward when I remove my hands from the bars to pop in the mirrors for filtering. But they're very warm. Hand guards seem like a good option but I've never used them myself.