Heated Grip question... Swap to another bike?

[MarJay]

'lo all,

I've decided for my dire winter commute I need some heated grips. I may go wholly down the heated-grips-and-tucano-urbano-muffs route eventually, but I'll start with the grips.

Heated grips aren't cheap, and I'm happy to pay for them if they are decent, but my GF has a set of Oxford ones on her ER6. She doesn't ride in winter and has never used the grips. It seems like a logical choice to take the grips off of her bike and put them onto mine. However, there is a fly in the ointment for this plan... Will I trash the grips by removing them? If so, it's not worth doing as I will wreck a perfectly good set of grips. I'm guessing that it would be easy to break the fine filament wire that is set into the grips? If I go shoving a screwdriver down the grip, will it survive? The grips were fitted by a garage (the previous owner wouldn't know what end of a screwdriver was what I think) so it may well be they have been properly glued...

Anyone have any experience in swapping over heated grips? If not, do I go cheap Oxford (on offer from Sportsbikeshop for £45) Or do I jump to the £90 Keis ones which are removable and have independently controlled grips?

All experience and ideas gratefully received. Unless you want to Tef, in which case please leave a sufficient gap to allow other posters to put in their 2p before text-walling the place to oblivion pls. Thanks!!

(in B4 I had Mike Hailwood branded steam grips fitted to my CB125T in 1978...)
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[B5234FT]

I've swapped a few sets which werent toooo solidly attached, but for £45 new its madness, just buy a new set, fit and enjoy. I've always used oxford grips and never had any issues (as long as you dont have the older, shit controllers)

[Polarbear]

If they have been fitted properly, with grip glue, they are going to be a bastard to get off.

Maybe with a hair dryer to soften the glue but TBH I would just get new ones. Yes it's expensive but if you fuck the GF's grips you are going to have to buy new ones PLUS grips for her bike.
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[MarJay]

[evilzed]

The grips are usually wrapped around a solid plastic tube which are then super glued onto the bar and throttle tube so there's almost no space to get a screwdriver in without chewing some of the plastic up, I've heard of people turning them on to max to try weaken the glue and rotate them off but like everyone else I'd just get another set.

[talkToTheHat]

I've never really had an issue getting the left grip off, but getting a grip off a throttle tube without wrecking the tube is harder. Are the throttle tubes interchangeable?
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[P.addy]

For £42, if I ever considered riding in the cold again I would wire these up instantly;

https://www.mcaleicester.co.uk/daytona-heated-grips/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuJiTi7Ks3gIVCLXtCh0zyQd6EAQYBCABEgLnjPD_BwE

I too have to muff it up, but I ended up riding with no gloves at one point as they were drenched and these on the lowest in a set of muffs, it felt like summer in there.

[MarJay]

Yeah I have been persuaded and have bought the Oxford ones which are on offer and were posted in another thread. You're right, it's not worth faffing for the sake of £40.
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British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F; Cheap project: CBR900RR FireBlade
Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.