Cold hand advice

[Phil_C]

Hi folks, this is my first post so please bear with me..

I am looking for advice on what to purchase to keep my hands warm on my CB600S Hornet. I was looking for some sort of "wind defeater" like you get on trials bikes and courier bikes. I don't like the idea of those things you put your hands in, in case I need to let go quickly. Heated grips won't do any good as my palms are warm, but my fingertips and thumbs are bloody freezing. Thicker gloves will just reduce my feedback.

Hope this makes sense! Thanks

[Simple]

plenty of oposts on this I will however humour you,

start with inner or winter gloves
still cold?
>hot grips
still cold?
>bar muffs

if you're still cold after that you need better/more baselayers, think longjohns and thermals...

the aboe keeps me warm and I'm fragile
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[Phil_C]

No, you seemed to have missed what I said. I don't want to use heated grips as they will only warm my palms, not my fingertips and thumb, which are proud of the grips. I don't want to use muffs as they could be unsafe (my opinion). I need to stop the wind-chill factor on my grips, then the gloves will keep me warm.

Longjohns and thermals? O.o I'm warm, my hands are bloody freezing.

[Finglonga]

[Bishbash]

You can get heted gloves for about £100, my mate suffers from bad circulation in his hands and the cold really effects him, he uses the heated gloves and has no problems.

It is a simple connection of a wire from the battery that pokes just out of your seat, here is a connection plug for the wire that sits inside your jacket. The wire in your jacket detaches from the gloves also.

They are very, very good and are better than the grips for obvious reasons.

[veeeffarr]

Can you get model specific brush guards?

[Bishbash]

I think they are universal, it would boil down to the handle bar diameter, but I am sure you can get model specific ones as the companies would not want the chance to miss out on that opportunity to charge 3 times what they are actually worth.

[Simple]

You cant have looked into heated grips too well then, I have oxford wrap around grips, they're larger, so the whole inside of your hand is warm,

long johns and body warmers keep your core temperatue up.. so the blood reaching ur hands is hot rather than having lost its heat as it goes down ur arms...so ur hands stay warm.

Muffs can be unsafe, mine took 2 weeks to get positioned suitably, now they're a doddle and work wonders.

Muffs become second nature if you ride your bike enough you adapt to them, I dont even notice them any more.

I wont wear thick winter gloves after hitting a car in a car park because I couldn't get my hand around the clutch lever (was non adjustable) it flicked from under my fingers and I went bonnet surfing
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[Phil_C]

Good advice guys. £100 for some heated gloves are probably a little extreme for me (not the price, but the wiring up etc).

Finglonga: where could I find gloves like that? I admit my gloves are probably more summer wear than hardcore winter thermal, but even with thick woolen linings they can't keep the cold out.

No-one have any idea where I can buy the defeaters? I know tourers and trials bikes use them (for different reasons).

[Finglonga]

Most are universal but mainly for trials bikes, mine came as standard (added the spoiler thingies after).

Some....Here
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[Simple]

Maplin did do heated gloves for £5, firend had a pair, put battery in each,, he said they were ace, when I went to get some they'd sold out in cov, may have some near you?


good winter gloves are HG ones, about £30 I think. look on their site
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[Imonster]

I don't understand why people think bar muffs are "unsafe"

I've used them for years covering 1000+ miles a week as a courier, and also use them now when I'm instructing.

I've come off bikes a fair few times before with muffs fitted and never, not once, have I got "trapped" in the bike - you're on the deck before you even have time to think "shit, what about my hands"

The only unsafe thing about them can be that without minor modifications is that at speed the windblast causes them to blow back onto your front brake lever, or clutch. A simple solution is to put a hole in the top of them to "thread" the mirrors through, and a hole in the side through which you screw your bar end weights. If you're on a faired bike, you can't do them through the mirrors generally but through the bar ends alone should do the job anyway.

The bigger muffs are better (chortle), ie. when you put your hand in you want half your forearm to disappear, and consider covering the outside of the muffs with gaffer tape too as added wind/rain protection.

If you have cold hands, then a combination of heated grips and muffs should solve your problems - this week I've covered about 800 miles, riding about 8/9 hrs a day and not had cold hands once - would rather this, than have the lines of my bike unspoilt but leaving me with numb fingers...

[Simple]

[colin1]

my advice is to wear a lot more clothes.

Keep your core body temperature up, and your hands wont feel cold. I wear a down puffer jacket under my bike jacket, and padded ski trousers over my bike trousers.

if you dont like bars mitts, try lobster gloves (a bit like mittens). If you dont like lobster gloves, get some cheap winter gloves off ebay.

[Pete.]

As above keeping your arms warm is an important part of keeping your hands warm. I don't like using bar mitts but I am using them now and I don't see them as being at all dangerous. There aren't many reasons you would want to take your hands off the bar in an emergency anyway and even then the natural reaction is to adopt a "death-grip".
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