The ideal winter gloves?

[GrahamNZ]

Heated grips of various kinds have added weight to my bikes for many years, but I'm still searching for the ideal winter gloves to go with them. Heavily insulated gloves help keep in any meagre heat your hands manage to generate, but they also tend to exclude the heat generated by the heated grips. What seems like not much heat through heavy gloves can almost burn bare hands. The gloves I'd like to find would have little insulation in the underside areas so you could feel the grip heat, and a lot of insulation on the outer areas where wind-chill is the problem. Gloves like that would also allow good feel of the controls.

Anyway, does anyone know of gloves with different degrees of insulation?

 

[NeroGuzzi]

I have struggled with finding a glove that is windproof, insulated, yet thin enough to transfer heat from heated grips to my hands. The intermediate solution I have found is the Shift Racing Torrent gloves. They are good for about an hour in 30 degree weather with heated grips on high. Here is a link to the gloves: http://shop.shiftracing.com:80/ecomm/Pr ... 00001F.jpg

 

[profwacko]

I have been using a pair of Held gloves for quite a few years now. I think the model is the Steve gloves.

They match almost exactly what you are asking for, in that the palms are single-thickness kangaroo, and the backs have the insulation. They have metal rivets on the heel of the palms that are backed up with extra layers on the inside, so that when you are sliding down the road on them, they don't burn your hands. Thankfully, I have not had the opportunity to test this feature as yet.

They are a little princely at about $160, but they wear like iron and feel really great.

Naturally, YMMV and all of that.

-Jack

 

[Holt]

Graham,

There is a technical problem using heated grips and goretex and equal lined gloves.
Since the membrane technique is based on the idea that the inside of the glove must be warmer than the outside, for the humidity to be able to pass the membrane the right way inside out, exactly the opposite thing will happen if you turn on the grip heating.

Maybe Gerbings will be a better choice than heated grips?

I've just purchased a pair of Held "Warm'n Dry" ( http://www.newenough.com/gloves/insulat ... loves.html ) gloves, but cannot give you any opinions yet, as it's summer now up here.
They are rated to be good, though.

 

[GrahamNZ]

Thanks for the feedback, especially re the Held gloves. They do look like exactly what I'm seeking. I intend pursuing some.

 

[Mike.C]

We have been using the BMW Pro Winter II gloves since last winter - only complaint is that they are not water prooof as they claim - after about 5 hours in puring rain they become like washing up gloves with holes in the fingers..

They do however have thin palms which make the Breva heated grips on the high setting actually too hot.

 

[Roblatt]

Mike,

you live in Qld. Why would you need any form of heat?

 

[Mike.C]

Simple.... in my book any thing less than 15 degrees is a problem, and many years ago when I moved SOUTH to Brisbane I swore that it was as far as I would ever go.... but in the ensuing years I realise I got it wrong.

To quote Susan Johnson of HUBB fame from the recently released Achievable Dream video "It is always Summer somewhere in the world, and it is quite easy to plan your motorcycle journey to take advantage of that" so winter gloves or no, that's all the encouragement I need. Sorry Graham but I won't be visiting in the winter..... and the endless summer - here I come!












(well one day)

 

[Roblatt]

Jeeeeeeezuz,

15 degrees! That's a heat wave.

 

[GrahamNZ]

Mike

It's 15 C here at the moment, which is pretty mild for this time of year. Sorry to hear that your BMW gloves leak. Do you have a jacket where the sleeves fit over the glove tops?

 

[Mike.C]

The way the gloves are designed the jacket goes inside, but that was not where they leaked from. 5 hours in the pelting rain was just too much for them and it breached the waterproof (?) liner.

Thing is though that they are very nice winter gloves from a warmth perspective and we now just use a good Kiwi product (rain off over gloves) over the top on a long ride in the rain which to be honest isn't that often so in the end we are very happy with them - heated grips work very well with them n chilly mornings!

 

[Roblatt]

would something like bees wax on the gloves work? or maybe very large plastic gloves to go over the top of the normal gloves?

 

[Mike.C]

That's exactly what the rain off over gloves are.

Link HERE

 

[cmgies]

Or these rain covers from Aerostich:

http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/Aerostich-Triple-Digit-Rain-Cover-p-16447.html

Michael

 

[jr1967]

Or try these: http://server01.hein-gericke-store.com/ ... ctureName=

They have worked for me for years, without heated grips 250km trips at 5 below is possible without frostbite.