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Which heated grips and handlebar muffs?
I'm planning to winterise the Tenere and want to add heated grips. The obvious choice is Oxford, are there any others I should look at?
I will also try to fit the handlebar muffs off the 1200 GSA but if these don't fit does anyone know of any alternatives? Tim |
im running oxford they are ok not brilliant, on my last bike i rand ktm heated grips which come with spacer bars incase your running acerbis hangaurds, which was handy, they can be hard to get hold of though.
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The muffs themselves are very easy to take off as they velcro around your miror stalk and all of the switchgear.No pics, my apologies as the bike is still in the dealers! |
I used to get the oxford hotgrips on my others bikes.
I mrealised this year that they're 75€ !! I do not remember them being so expensive. Other people on the forum have installed the symtec which allows to keep the original grip. http://www.windingroads.co.uk/shop/p...d0611ea3290aad |
I use the oxford grips and combined with some handguards and intermediate gloves commuted 1 hr on the motorway each way last winter. Temperatures went down to -4 without the windchill. If it went any colder I'd have to consider consider heated gloves or the muffs. The windchill is the real killer at those speeds though.
Also worth pointing out is that with that combo that summer gloves don't give enough insulation against the wind on the top of your hand and winter gloves insulate your hand from the heat in the grips to much wheras intermediates seem to strike a reasonable balance. For waterproofness for the length of journeys I do both my gore-tex gloves seem to do the job nicely at keeping the water out but then my cheapest gloves are �80 (a Bikers pair, with Alpinestar 365 X-trafit Gore-tex being my other main pair). I've recently switched to my intermetiate gloves from the alpinestars now that temperatures are often at 6 degrees celcius (43F) in the mornings! The main reason I'm not using muffs is i'm concerned that should I have an accident that you can't get your hands off the bars quick enough as they'll be trapped by the muffs. |
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If i buy a tenere the first thing i will fit is symtec heated grips |
Fitted the symtec on all my off roaders. Good quality kit with all the necessary fitting instructions. Great when wet through and v cold during the winter months
WB :) |
I have just fitted the Oxford hotgrips and i am very happy with them. They are a bit pricey but to be fair they are a lot more sophisticated (spelt right?) than they used to be as now you get a four setting digital switch and voltage meetering to stop you having a flat battery.
Hope this helps. Mark. (Very fed up as i have mixed up the dates for the Dent meet and cant do it now) |
hi i fitted the sytecs and was not impressed and have now gone back to the hotgrips as they definately seem to work better. i have the ktm gaurds as i use the tenere all year round on a 50 mile commute . the oxford's came off my tengai though the temparture controller had failed due to water ingress so am currently using a flick switch and must get round to fitting a resistor to keep them cooler as they will get too hot after 10 minutes, not a problem faced with the symtecs though, warm not hot in that case :unibrow:
my 2p's worth stoic |
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