Is heated gear worth it? My opinion after 15 hours of 🥶 winter riding. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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- Recently I took a trip up to Las Vegas from Phoenix for the unveiling of the new Ruroc 4.0 helmet (unsponsored). Last minute I decided to stop @cyclegeartv and @jpcycles to pick up some Hotwired heated gear and wanted to share my experience. This was something I once thought was a completely spoiled thing to own but now I fully understand why it has such good reviews. I have provided my @RevZilla affiliate links below to all of the gear I bought for this trip and that you would need to assemble the same get up.
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You just need heated gloves, heated grips and heated jacket liner. Then waterproof boots with wool socks, waterproof pants with good base layers, and you are good to go to Alaska in winter!!
I did an Iron Butt 1000 ride from Saint Louis, MO to Buffalo, NY in the dead of winter, the temp never went above 28 degs., and it was raining half the way. One surreal experience with heated gear is, you won't believe the temp until you crack your visor open.
I would do it again
I live in Pennsylvania. NEPA. I ride all year round. Gerbings. They are simply the best. I ride down into single digits..snug and warm the entire time. I have socks, pants, jacket and gloves. I love riding in the winter. NO BUGS.
Game changer as long as it’s working. I be had mine go out twice lately. I didn’t have backups. Like froze to death. Carbon fiber wires are easy to break. I think I killed mine rolling them up tight and stuffing them in. One of my warm n safe socks will burn your toes. If I turn the controller down for the sock. It turns the pants down too low. My warm n safe jacket has to have something put on over it really tight to do any good. It feels like a thin wind breaker and is zero insulation.
I ride in Japan and temperatures get down to high teens low 20's, and heated gear is an absolute must. I'm currently rocking a heated vest and heated gloves. Heated gloves are a game charger... I spent 10 years riding without any heated gear, I look back at myself and call myself a dumbass! To anybody whose on the fence about purchasing heated gear, drop the cash your rides will improve 10 fold and your body will thank you! Great video!
What brand heated gear do you use?
You are so terrible right. In 1983 it did not exist. Several years later the V1 came out. Heavy as shit. The generator of the bike could not power it well. Plug and plug out when i saw the headlight powering down. To get more juice in the battery.
Ohw, what a horrible times back then.
Been using Gerbing's 12 volt heated gloves from 2003. And a year later bought the insoles. It makes such a difference when your hands and feet atleast are warm. It saves a lot of your energy. Because of a 12000 km trip several years ago bought the Gerbing's heated jacket. Allready had the needed controller from the gloves and insoles. Needed the jacket because i needed as less gear as possible on that long trip.
A ventilation jacket for hot weather and when it got cold i used the heated jacket beneath that. O man, worked perfectly. One time at night it was minus 6 degrees Celsius. The heated jacket under the KTM mess jacket. Power at around 60 percent and my upperbody and arms were toasty warm. Also the neck. And on purpose i used a slightly to high setting so the blood in my upperbody could also get some warmth to my legs. Heated gear for sure is the best purchases i ever made for riding a bike. I still own the first heated gear from before 1990. But the current heated gear has become so much better. Back then you could not move in it. Only sitting on the bike. Heavy at is was you became quickly tired while riding.
I hope that one day i can ride in Japan. A wish for more then 40 years. While watching Ichi. Became captivated by the nature shown in black and white. Also of the history and the people. Read many many books around 1980 and even before that time about Japan and its history. Incredible strong people but their suffering sometimes was so horrible. But i really do not like raw fish. 🤢 😂 Here we have Zure Haring. Brrrr. How can people eat that ? Even Musashi liked it. 🙈
I hope before i stop breathing that i can visit (in my mind) the most beautifull country in the entire world. And before the CCP takes over. 🙈
Great video!! I moved back to AZ from MD, where I spent 12 years there after retiring from the Air Force. I rode every winter until the first time snow fall, because then they would salt the hell out of the roads. So when it came to heated gear it was I must for me to be able to continue riding long after everyone else put their bikes away for the winter. I used heated gloves, started with a heated vest, but moved up to a heated jacket liner after the second winter. I have heavy leather pants that are insulated and just wore heavy socks. I also had soft lowers I would put on the bike. I also would wear a balaclava under my helmet. A couple of times on the foggy damp morning I would actually develop ice on my knees! So on those days I would wear knee pads for extra warmth! I wore all of this 5 days a week going to/from work. My girlfriend used to think I was nuts! lol What can I say I love to ride, besides some of our grandfathers wore electrically heated suit flying in open air B-17s, I'm doing this for fun, they did it because they had to. Since I've moved to AZ I don't use my heated gear as much, but occasionally I've pulled out the jacket and gloves when my rides take me North of Tucson. Dan, you discovered the first problem most people encounter with heated gear, not changing out the fuse to account for the additional electrical draw. Most of the manufactures include a chart to aid in figuring out how much draw your heated gear with pull. Also remember if you ride with a passenger and they have heated gear you'll need to account for that too. Great video, as always! And you are MY trusted source for information!
The good thing is you don’t have to buy all the gear at once. My first piece were the gloves. Then I got the jacket later, then the pants, and finally the insoles. The gloves get warmer than the glove liners. I use the included battery harness, and not the SAE lead. The instructions call for blue 15 amp fuse, which is already installed with the harness that came with the gloves. When combined with the freeze-out base layer, you can ride in any temperatures you want, or until ice is on the ground.
For me, they sell thermal liners that, with layering, are fine. I have Freez-out liners that work great, and I ride regularly below freezing during the winter, as my bike is my main vehicle. The one place where heated gear does come in as a necessity is gloves. There is no glove made by man that can keep the cold out below freezing.
Dan, Good video with info for me.
Because of it, I will consider buying the gear. Thanks
Great video - my Hotwired gear is keeping me toasty warm in frigid east coast temps, and the convenience of the controllers built into the garments can’t be beat!
Great stuff thanks for posting... Next time I ride a bike from Glendale to Vegas... It'll be a Goldwing LOL. But then again, you ain't almost 80 years old like I am...
I was looking into heated grips and ran across your video. Good stuff thanks for the review! Rethinking maybe heated gear is the way to go. 🤙🏼🇺🇸
I've had mine for 4 years now. I bought mine with Christmas gift certificates four years ago and I have been happy with it here in PA. I only have the coat and pants. I'm not a distance rider but I HATE the cold. I've ridden as low as 21 degrees.
21!! That is legit cold lol
For me, riding in Mongolia which is much colder than anywhere in the USA, the heated jacket and pants are unnecessary and I ride off-road down to -23C (so far). I have heated glove liners, heated grips and handlebar muffs. My hands were my weak point and this keeps them toasty. I've got heated socks but I don't find them necessary. My core is warm enough with layering. I just make sure no bare skin is exposed or I'd get frostbite. If I were road riding, it might be a different story, but I rarely do that since I live off road in the mountains. The nearest paved road is quite far.
The biggest problem for me, not mentioned in the video, is my pinlock visor frosting over inside. This usually happens below -20C. This is below than temperature where pinlocks and breath deflectors/boxes work. That's where I need some sort of heated visor. I'm making one myself.
I also hate being tethered to my bike. I fall off lots of time riding on snow and ice. So being tethered to the bike is undesirable. My few heated elements use 7.4v 2200mAh batteries. The heated grips (Oxford) are the only part wired to the bike but not attached to me.
Only answer is Hell Yes, I have been wearing complete Gerbings gear since 1999, hardwired controller on the Tiger. Watch your total amp draw. With driving lights on, I have to turn either the pants or jacket off. Heated gear is also GREAT on the sailboat under the float suit.
Nice video! Got a subscribe from me. Being from Michigan I've always wondered about heated gear . . . as well as motorcycle accessories like heated grips, seats, etc. Considering where I live, a modest investment in some heated gear has the potential to significantly extend my riding season.
Live in Indiana used my quite frequently great video
Nice man! I have a heated vest and gloves but they are both battery pack operated. Not sure I’m ready to drop 5 bills on new stuff but definitely interested.
Great job!!
Thank you!
I live in Washington state. Not a lot of snow but gets in the 30's. But would consider this from your recommendation. Because could extend my guiding time. 👍
Lowest I've ridden in was mid 20s but at speed. Honestly, for ME, keeping my hands and feet warm are all I need. I have heated gloves, and just put on heated grips this winter. As for my feet, I put soft lowers on, and thick wool socks. Getting off the bike every hour to stretch is key. My legs, I wear lined jeans and chaps. My leather jacket, I put a down sweater on underneath. Too much bulk, I cant move around.
It works wonders . I am able to ride all winter 🙌
Getting caught out there in the freezing death cold can be miserable man. 💀
For sure, I can definitely see why people love heated gear. Its a season extender.
@@GearsGadgets I did the same as you last year I brought all the pieces except the feet soles! And I have the heated riding gloves not the liner! But hands down the best pieces of gear I’ve brought being cold and riding doesn’t make motorcycling very fun for me. It’s worth every Penny can ride in temps below 30 all day if I had too and I live in New England!
Here in the Seattle area and Cascade foothills- your choices are: don’t ride between October and March, or buy heated gear. Mine are battery operated. It works fine for the jacket, pants, and glove liners. As for socks, they get really toasty on the highest setting, but are a pain to replace (so high up the leg). So after ~2 hours, the feet get cold. I’d like the plug in gear, but too much to replace at this point. I like the earlier comment of adding a separate plug in with a 15 amp fuse. Good video- thanks!
I've been running heated gear for 5yrs and riding here in md and PA it allows for yr around riding. I've been as low as 20 on my heritage. Makes a difference. Btw....you should upgrade to a 15 amp fuse. My gear guy, and bike mechanic both said 15 amp will be safe with jacket,gloves,pant liners, and socks the draw is around 12 amps.
I have the jacket liner. It works great.
Just use the supplied harness directly to battery to avoid bike fuse issue. The supplied harness has a fuse too, just follow instructions for the proper size for how many heated pieces you run.
I had never bought heated gear. I have thought about it but never rode a lot in winter. I kinda have the Age rule, never ride when the temp is below your age. So anything under 61 degrees I just drive the car.
I guess that happens when we get older. Lol
Good Video!
Right on
Lucky you use Fahrenheit. The entire world (except the USA) uses Celcius. So, I'd never be able to ride.
I would add a second SAE plug on its own 15a fuse. That way you aren't potentially drawing too much on that one circuit and your charger plug is stays properly protected with it's 7.5a fuse. A fused SAE plug is dirt cheap and available everywhere. Even Amazon.
That is a good idea.
Going through the twisties and through snow some days ago I can say that if you see snow for 5 months out of 12 it is worth every penny....
can you plug all of the gear in at the same time or do you need to alternate? Thanks for the video, from Ottawa Canada :)
I have the Hotwired jacket liner pants the larger heated gloves all the of the gear chain up together using the one power cable to feed all the pieces at once! Heated gear is the best thing I’ve brought for when it comes to colder weather! Hate riding cold makes riding not enjoyable at all!
If it wasn't snowing so much here in Michigan I would ride more often in the cold
can you expand your channel into PEV stuff? :D E-scooter drivers uses motorscyle gear because we go fast and that is the safest option. so I would like to know if you can try high performance electric scooters and check how it is to use some of the gear you review on them
Great insite
Thanks
Hmmm, what a strange question.
For 21 years i have been riding the entire year around. For the winter i had a second bike. A so called Pekelfiets because of the salt on the road during wintertime.
The first 3 years i had no heated gear. Brrrr.🥶🥶🥶 You all can not imagine what i went through. A little more then 260 km per day. A lot of times i allmost froze to death while riding.
Tried everything. Newspapers in my jacket , dried grass and a lot of other weird stuff. Even tried to make my own heated gear in the Eighties. Used copperwire from a heated blanket. In a t-shirt. After 20 minutes i had to stop because i was on fire. The wire burned into my skin.😂
Later bought the first stuff from Gerbing's. A heated jacket and trousers. Their first try. I still have it. The complete suit is something around 25 kg. 😬 But it worked although it worked poorly.
Years after that bought their heated gloves. That worked great. And later again the heated insoles. Those had problems. They still do. Their current ones i mean.
But all in all. The electrical heated gear from Gerbing's saved my life. Of this i am 100 percent sure. In the first three years i have really been close to hypothermia. So many times. Riding in minus 19 degrees Celsius for a couple of hours.
And one night their was 50 cm snow on the highway. I could not ride my BMW K75 anymore. Stood more then 11 hours beside the road in the grass. In the feezing cold and strong wind. Every hour i started my motor and let it idle for 15 till 30 minutes while my heated gear was connected to the battery. It was how i survived the entire night. Afraid to run the battery out of juice. 😖 While extreme cold winds tried to kill me. As soon as i shut of the electric gear within five minutes i felt the cold claw its way into my body.
Afraid because my K75 was not trustworthy. Had to fix it all the time. But because i was poor i had no other option for transportation. Even in winter 5 times every year had to ride from the North in the Netherlands to a place in Belgium. 396 kilometers single ride. I was completely mad. Frozen roads, snow, no visibility through the visor while covered with snow and so on.
I can honestly say that if Gerbing would not had existed then for sure i would have been dead. Atleast would have experienced several crashes because of not being able to ride safely. On a bike riding in minus 20 till 28 degrees Celsius within a few minutes you are cold. And 10 minutes later you get so cold that your brain will try stopping to operate correctly. But you do not really know that. Shivering and all that stuff. Your toes and knees, elbows and so on. You can not even sense them anymore. 1983 i still remember. Minus 28 degrees Celsius, in December. 19 years old. Everywhere broken down cars beside the roads. Accidents everywhere. Farmers helping people out who were in need in there cars. And i ?? Trying to stay upright on my bike while riding through 10 till 20 cm snow. Tires all worn out without any profile on them. A terrible painfull bladder because i was to afraid to go and stop on the side of the road to piss. Because all the snow was plowed to the side of the road and was sometimes more then a meter or more high. And i also could not stop on the middle of the road. Opel Kadets stranded here and there😢 Poor as i was had to endure all of that. Sometimes no money to even fill the tank. Still have pain in some toes on my left feet because they have been frozen back then. But had to work and earn money because i needed to provide.
Gerbing's , thanks. 👍
I want some (plug in) heated gloves.
I’m good and toasty in my riding gear, but my hands go numb. Anything under 50F for than an hour, at interstate speeds, just chills my hands into meatcicles.
Were the liners adequate ?
Yeah, I have the same question because I'm fine down to low 30s except for my hands and feet. It gets to where I literally can't feel the grips. Thicker gloves aren't an option either because it causes the same issue.
I have the Hotwired heated gloves not the small liner gloves he used. They work great!! I hate freezing hands myself I also have bark busters on my bike to help deflect the wind as well! On my fz10 I have heated grips paired with heated gloves I could ride all day in temps below 30 easily if I had too! I wonder myself if the liners are as good as there thicker riding gloves! Would be nice to have another option to carry the smaller liner gloves in back pack if I needed them for those days where it gets cold at night!
@@StephenTillman I would say use those liner gloves paired with heated grips if you want to keep hands from feeling bulky! Try to find a good pair colder weather gloves that aren’t so oversized that do a good job at keep wind from hitting your hands!
Make sure your bike has enough excess charging capacity for the amount of gear you're hooking up.
Some bikes are designed for it, some aren't.
Heated gear is great.... game changer and you dont need to look like the Stay Puff Marshmallow man....
Sorry I not going to spend $500.00 for this I will just wait for the weather to warm up.
Heated gear is great but once you go that rabbit hole. There's no going back. You'll become soft.
You got that right!