revtothelimit - motorbike forum

My wife suffers from poor circulation in her hands which makes them particularly cold when on pillion with me.

She’s using a pair of wooden gloves under her bike gloves just now but although they do the job obviously they are bulky and make it difficult to put the outer gloves on.

Any recommendations for a pair of inner gloves for her?

Millions of pilots can't be wrong, try silk liners.

Stick some of these on the grab rail.

https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorc ... q8QAvD_BwE

Wooden gloves?

That wooden do at all.

What about heated gloves?

Any chance she can get some heated clothing? Both vest (for her core) and then if budget and voltage allows glove liners too.

Obviously make sure that the layers don't restrict blood flow either.

Maybe look for different main gloves. Most gloves are aimed at the rider. Maybe some pillion gloves ? Mittens are warmer than gloves.

Thanks all.

She's got diabetes and also arthritis in her hands
Both not too debilitating fortunately but neither of those conditions are good for the circulation.

She won't go pillion if its too cold so we just need something to take the edge off rather than go full blown electric.

I'll have a look next time I'm in a bike shop for liners although no doubt a good outdoors shop will sell the same.

Or as suggested a really good pair of gloves.

In that case, a two pronged attack:
- warm core, ensure that her body stays warm. Keep the wind out (neck, cuffs). Pillions don't have direct wind blast, they suffer slipstream on the back.
- warm gloves, get the best insulated you can. Inners is a bodge fix.

As for "if silk liners worked for Biggles" ...

Your Irvine jacket certainly sounds wonderful. I have one that would appear to be around the same vintage as the one you have.

It too is an early vintage (around 1940/1941) and is made from single pieces, the back panel being made from two pieces and is beautifully made. Under the arms are vented using small round metal rivits (not sure if that's a great description of what it actually looks like or not?)

The one I have has also been an electrically heated jacket. I say 'has also been' because the wires have been removed.

I was told that these electrically heated jackets tended to be worn by Air Gunners and that Pilots didn't wear this version. However, I have studied photographs of my grandfathers crew (he was a Halifax pilot) and my grandfather is definately wearing an electrically heated jacket - so Pilots did wear them too then!