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For all you hardy AWB's sale on Blaze heated gear for the cold winter months.
https://www.blazewear.com/shop-by-activity/moto

Lol, the other instructors i work with have an assortment of heated vests and insoles they use as well as the obvious heated grips. I have yet to go down the heated clothing route but will look to get my bar muffs i have used on the GS and Multi adapted onto the Fazer

I generally manage ok with decent base layer and a thermal layer right down to freezing point temps

maccecht wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:50 pm For all you hardy AWB's sale on Blaze heated gear for the cold winter months.
https://www.blazewear.com/shop-by-activity/moto

However good that gear is, the website is awful!

The gloves are 6 watts per hand. Has anone used these? That doesn't sound like you'd griddle yer pinkies.

Trogladyte wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:59 pm The gloves are 6 watts per hand. Has anone used these? That doesn't sound like you'd griddle yer pinkies.

Not used the gloves but the missus and I both have the heated jacket liners and are happy with them. We both have Gervinho gloves which plug into the Blaze jackets. The gloves can get too hot but that’s because the Blaze temp controller on the jacket doesn’t control the temp in the gloves. Had a few mild scalds on my knuckles but all my own idiocy.

Bigyin wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:57 pm Lol, the other instructors i work with have an assortment of heated vests and insoles they use as well as the obvious heated grips. I have yet to go down the heated clothing route but will look to get my bar muffs i have used on the GS and Multi adapted onto the Fazer

I generally manage ok with decent base layer and a thermal layer right down to freezing point temps

Once you've tried a heated vest you won't go back. They heat the core and keep warm blood circulating to the pinkies.

I froze my butt off for years as a courier with the 'muffs / decent baselayer / thermal layer' approach, and couldn't believe how warm I could be with heated clothing - I bought a Gerbing right at the end, just before I started training. For instructing, with the heated waistcoat I didn't need muffs and got away with unlined gloves on all but the coldest days.

I did blood running for four or five years and inevitably got called out late at night in winter (in summer the jobs mysteriously dried up ). I remember one particular 3 hr ride in -10c temps (one of the coldest Jan nights ever in Kent) between 2am and 5am. At the end I was cold - but without the core heat, I would have frozen solid on that ride.

To reinforce that (caveat - I'm a wimp), I bought the RRT from Witham SV at Grantham. Temps were about 2C, it was windy and drizzling. One T&P stop during the 130 mile trip.

With the heated waistcoat on (EXO2), I switched the heated grips off and arrived home with just cold toes.