Heated grips

[Sensfan]

I still for the life of me, can't figure out WHY you need heated grips in Florida.......I however, probably could use them, as here is what we woke up to this morning lol. It's a loooong, sad winter beginning here. Although my sister in law suggested trailering the bikes to her place in Orlando and leaving them there in her garage, fly down and ride when we want......but will I have to purchase heated grips?

 

[Hayabusa]

Go and buy heated gloves.......

 

[Dawg68]

I was just in Ottawa two weeks ago. You folks are worse off than Alberta...for now. Heated anything wont solve our problem unless we can figure out how to melt snow and ice as we ride...like you said, long winter.

 

[Dawg68]

Does anyone have any recommendations of a type of heated grip that works for them?

I was looking at these, Oxford over grips;
Oxford Hot Hands Heated Grips - RevZilla

Not sure how these will work but for the cost, not a huge investment.

After reading the posts here I never thought about the problems of heating moulded plastic...We have the same problem on some of our winter kit that has heated core, the plastic becomes brittle over time. Same thing used to happen with the old CRT Television cabinets due to the heat from the tube. I thought that the heated grips would have been manufactured from moulded rubber. Not much you can do to prevent brittle plastic.

 

[vanguard138]

[quote="Hayabusa, post: 22476MineGo and buy heated gloves.......[/quote]

I agree, get some Gerbings. Mine broke, Triumph replaced them, but I am afraid to use them. I will use my Gerbing gloves next spring.

 

[cr0ft]

From what I gather, it's the part of the grip that holds the cable end that shreds. Personally I'm on year two on my grip, but I don't use it constantly... and with horror stories in mind, I carry the original grip in a pannier, just in case. I'll be needing a new clutch cable anyway so I think I'll pick up two and put one of those in the pannier too.

 

[slidderhd]

thanks to this forum, I was able to get mine running in about 10 minutes after the grip broke. Simply open up the housing, take the return cable lose from its hole, then put the pull cable in that location. Use a knife to cut a groove for the cable, been close the housing. The throttle bodies have so much spring tension, you don't need a return cable.

 

[wheeli]

If you throttle jockies would stop twisting the life out of those poor grips they might hold up!
But seriously they are frail, poor design was my first take, plastic and steel don't mix. When mine broke, and I stopped crying, I was able to get home by manually pulling and pushing the cable. Not easy, but do-able, all I needed was a #2 Phillips screwdriver.