- Location
- Derbyshire
Any recommendations for mitts / heated grips please? Either or both - what works best for folk? Out this morning and first hard frost of the year and my right hand was bloody cold and painful despite gloves.
Quad mitts / heated grips - recommendations
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Do not be tempted by cheap eBay heated grips, you will probably regret it rather quickly.... 
Decent motorcycle grips like Oxford last and work well. However, when I was doing a loy of contract pelleting, I always swapped the thumb throttle for a proper twist grip, partially for better control and less thumb pain, but also for a way better use of the heat in the grip, as the hand is wrapped around it tightly.
Decent motorcycle grips like Oxford last and work well. However, when I was doing a loy of contract pelleting, I always swapped the thumb throttle for a proper twist grip, partially for better control and less thumb pain, but also for a way better use of the heat in the grip, as the hand is wrapped around it tightly.
I have these on my CanAm
www.158performance.co.uk
Very good and if on the higher settings they are almost too hot to hold.
Seperate controls for the grips and the thumb throttle pad.
Heated hand grips & throttle combo
Heated hand grips & throttle combo 4 temperature settings with individual controls for thumb and grips.
www.158performance.co.uk
Very good and if on the higher settings they are almost too hot to hold.
Seperate controls for the grips and the thumb throttle pad.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Mitts are dangerous
You want just a standard, but decent quality, set of handlebar muffs something like this.
phmotorcycles.co.uk
All the heated stuff expires sooner or later unless it's the OE factory fit gear.
Usually it's the switch gear or attendant wiring that gives up due to water ingress and it always happens sooner or later, goodness knows how many sets I've binned over the years on bikes that have come if for "electrical problems".
The muffs probably do a better job anyway but most bikers are just too vain to use them!
JMP HANDLEBAR MUFFS - P&H Motorcycles
JMP HANDLEBAR MUFFS Color: Black. Suitable for various motorcycle models.
phmotorcycles.co.uk
All the heated stuff expires sooner or later unless it's the OE factory fit gear.
Usually it's the switch gear or attendant wiring that gives up due to water ingress and it always happens sooner or later, goodness knows how many sets I've binned over the years on bikes that have come if for "electrical problems".
The muffs probably do a better job anyway but most bikers are just too vain to use them!
- Location
- Staffordshire Moorlands
Second this. Warm but dangerous. I do use them but always have to make sure the bike is in neutral if I take my hand out of them as it catches the thumb throttle regularly.
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I have to chuckle at the two heat settings,
I mean who thinks to themselves " nah. My hands are far too warm for a January morning
I mean who thinks to themselves " nah. My hands are far too warm for a January morning
- Location
- Romney Marsh
I'm another one that really think quad mitts are dangerous and should be in room 101 !
Just go and buy yourself a good pair of gloves.
Just go and buy yourself a good pair of gloves.
pycoed
Member
- Location
- Pontarddulais, UK
Don't get mitts - f**king things sent me backwards down a steep bank stuck underneath the quad in blackthorns The quad was only a 350 & I'm a big bloke, but it was all I could do to push it off me lying head down the bank. There were more pricks in my back than in a second hand dartboard.
Female friend of my son was not so lucky - she did the same thing a month later but also with a bigger quad & broke her back. She was VERY lucky to make a full recovery.
The quad was only a 350 & I'm a big bloke, but it was all I could do to push it off me lying head down the bank. There were more pricks in my back than in a second hand dartboard.Female friend of my son was not so lucky - she did the same thing a month later but also with a bigger quad & broke her back. She was VERY lucky to make a full recovery.
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Was someone at a quad dealer in this area was killed after one of these caused the throttle lever to get stuck on many years ago.
As I said, good quality motorcycle kit is what is needed....You want just a standard, but decent quality, set of handlebar muffs something like this.
JMP HANDLEBAR MUFFS - P&H Motorcycles
JMP HANDLEBAR MUFFS Color: Black. Suitable for various motorcycle models.
All the heated stuff expires sooner or later unless it's the OE factory fit gear.
Usually it's the switch gear or attendant wiring that gives up due to water ingress and it always happens sooner or later, goodness knows how many sets I've binned over the years on bikes that have come if for "electrical problems".
The muffs probably do a better job anyway but most bikers are just too vain to use them!
Good connectors make a difference too, if in doubt put a dab of white grease on the connectors.As with others, I found muffs less than wonderful, just get some dirt bike hand protectors
Most of the grips I've put in the bin over the years were Oxford.As I said, good quality motorcycle kit is what is needed....
As with others, I found muffs less than wonderful, just get some dirt bike hand protectors
All of them are ghastly anyway, big old thick things, think you had a sledge shaft in both hands. That's where the OE scores as they can make the handlebars thinner so that even with the heating element you're still holding a 22mm grip.
Don't get peoples issues with the handlebar muffs, they used to be pretty standard fare on commuter bikes as nothing will keep your hands as warm and dry without the need for ridiculously thick gloves, which really are dangerous!
Genuinely have never heard of any problem with them before.
Nothing like farmers to not think outside the box.
Obviously there is the padded boiler suit, exelent but if you do anything physical the sweat will pour out of you. Gloves, dont spend a fortune just buy several pairs.
Everything that bikers can get for their bikes can be fitted to a quad bike and clothing they use can be used on quad bikes as well.
Heated waste coats are exelent and the battery lasts all day on the low setting, which is all you need.
If you get the heated hand grips they should last if the dealer fits them properly but if they pack in get a new set next time it is getting serviced.
And the big one that god only knows why nobody fits them, a Heated Seat. They are paradise to use and put heat into your body.
They are dirt cheap to buy and easy to fit.
Obviously there is the padded boiler suit, exelent but if you do anything physical the sweat will pour out of you. Gloves, dont spend a fortune just buy several pairs.
Everything that bikers can get for their bikes can be fitted to a quad bike and clothing they use can be used on quad bikes as well.
Heated waste coats are exelent and the battery lasts all day on the low setting, which is all you need.
If you get the heated hand grips they should last if the dealer fits them properly but if they pack in get a new set next time it is getting serviced.
And the big one that god only knows why nobody fits them, a Heated Seat. They are paradise to use and put heat into your body.
They are dirt cheap to buy and easy to fit.
Well, I have them on my one bike, fitted in 2010/11.... still working well!
Had a problem with a dodgy connection around 5-6 years ago, bit of cleaning on the lugs then some grease.... Been fine ever since. Damne well hope so as I'll need them next week!! They generally get fitted to commuter hacks and one winter, two if you're lucky, just about goes for them.Well, I have them on my one bike, fitted in 2010/11.... still working well!
Throwing them in to the typical farm environment I just can't see going well!
Pistonbroke
Member
I am going to try and find some Motocross type hand guards to fit. I use my son's KTM sometimes and I never get cold hands. Anything to keep the wind off,even the aluminium box on ours diverts the wind away and makes a hell of a difference
- Location
- Yorkshire
Issue is to do with the throttle lever, think if you have a twist grip throttle you won't suffer the same problems
2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
i have oxford heated grips on my road bike. can't fault them but with hindsight i think heated gloves would be a better bet as they heat the backs of the hands as well as the palms.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I am going to try and find some Motocross type hand guards to fit. I use my son's KTM sometimes and I never get cold hands. Anything to keep the wind off,even the aluminium box on ours diverts the wind away and makes a hell of a difference
On the last CanAm I specc’ed heat grips and wind protector over the handlebars.
On a seriously cold day I put gloves on too, but most of the time keeping the wind off whilst warming from underneath is more than adequate. Rarely have the heated grips on max for long as they get too hot.
I’ll spec the next bike exactly the same.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Daytona make good hot grips.
Don't like the Oxford ones as they don't have much grip at all and often one side stops working fairly early on, and they're too fat if you wear gloves as well.
There was another brand really commonly sold here when quads first came on the scene but damned if I can remember the name, they were excellent but had a dopey big switch on the bars that wasn't very waterproof after lots of use, they actually had grippy grips so were better than most of what came since. Different if you're doing lambing beats etc with reasonably clean or wet hands, but if you're on a dairy farm with mud-blobs for hands hotgrips just cook crud on and get too slippery
I won't start on handlebar muffs + thumb throttles as that's already been said
Don't like the Oxford ones as they don't have much grip at all and often one side stops working fairly early on, and they're too fat if you wear gloves as well.
There was another brand really commonly sold here when quads first came on the scene but damned if I can remember the name, they were excellent but had a dopey big switch on the bars that wasn't very waterproof after lots of use, they actually had grippy grips so were better than most of what came since. Different if you're doing lambing beats etc with reasonably clean or wet hands, but if you're on a dairy farm with mud-blobs for hands hotgrips just cook crud on and get too slippery
I won't start on handlebar muffs + thumb throttles as that's already been said