Heated grips

[JulesMaximus]

Only because my home place is a PERPETUAL 67 degrees F, I never think about heated handgrips and always ignore that as a "feature" in bike adverts. However, I appreciate that guys in truly cold places like Sweden or Buffalo could be helped by heated grips. Like you said, it's one of those things you don't appreciate until you're in an environment where it'd be a nice crrature comfort. (Do heatyed grips really help THROUGH GLOVES?)

I live in San Diego, CA and ride year round. Temps can get down into the low 40s here overnight during winter and mid to low 50s overnight is very common. I've also ridden into the local mountains during the day and been met with temps in the low 40s.

Yes, heated grips do help through gloves, even thick winter gloves.

Aside from completely hacking away your factory grips with no way of returning the bike to its factory state; or the fact that you have to hack-job glue to make sure the heated grips doesn't slip...yea they're easy to install :whiste:

I like heated grips but there's no way i'm going to install heated grips on my bike.

I've replaced grips myself on a few bikes I've owned. It's not difficult and definitely not a hack job. I can't imagine adding heated grips would be much more difficult, you just need to make sure your bike's electrical system can handle the added draw, wire it in and mount a switch for it. A friend of mine wired in auxiliary lights to his air-cooled Multistrada. Doesn't look hacked at all. Looks very clean in fact.