SloButWide 

Actually, OP later revealed they have Raynaud's Disease. Pogies, gloves, etc. help your hands conserve warmth; when Reynaud's strikes, your hands don't warm. The circulation in them is severely restricted. An external heat source may be the only viable option, and chemical heater packs don't warm the fingers.

noglider 

You are mistaken.

SloButWide 

Thank you. I guess my attention wandered between the posts where Raynaud's was discussed and the disclaimer.

JohnJ80

Cold is going to be a matter of acclimation. While you and I might think of 20F as warm, someone in a warmer climate is going to see that as bitter cold.

I'm up here in Minnesota (we know cold). I have been going back and forth with a guy who moved here from Atlanta this summer about what winter would be like. He couldn't believe how "cold" 20F was the first time we had temps that cold. I told him that would feel warm when he'd been through -20F. Sure enough, -20F came and went and he couldn't believe how warm it was and even was walking around with his jacket unzipped like the rest of us. It's also why it's so funny to us Frozen Northlanders when we go spring skiing in the mountains and all the southerners show up wearing what we'd wear for subzero and the temp is around 30-40F.

J.

fietsbob

Mittens will always be warmer than fingered gloves ..

Giant Doofus

I apologize for the confusion. I hadn't realized that the word "Raynaud's" was part of the product name in the link I posted. That is likely what caused the misunderstanding. I will say, though, that my trouble with cold hands does seem to be on the extreme end of the spectrum among people I know, even though I am generally stoic about physical discomfort. The pain from cold (only in my hands) is pretty intense, and I can normally only warm my hands back up again by doing something like wrapping them around a hot mug of tea.

Giant Doofus

I know what you mean! I used to live in Michigan, and what I think of as "cold" in Memphis is what I thought of as "early spring" back then. I tolerated the cold in Michigan really well and enjoyed outdoor activities even in the most frozen of months, but even then, I always had trouble with my hands being painfully cold.

Giant Doofus

Good idea. I'll look into them.

Really interesting! I've seen Bar Mitts mentioned before but never really followed up on them. I'm going to check around to see if I can find some that will work with my moustache bars.

JohnJ80

I too have problems keeping my hands warm - I've frostbitten them multiple times - so I'm pretty focused on schemes to keep my hands warm. But I think that too, even with the added sensitivity, has a large element of acclimation to it. For example, in the first cold of the year, I'll usually wind up with my heavy mittens on. Later in the year when I've been through some deep subzero, those same mittens would wind up wet from sweat at the same temperature I felt cold in at the beginning of the season.

j.

2 Piece

The Semantic games I play? I played no games, you however...
If you want to keep your hands warm with poagies go ahead I hope they do you well. I'll try to stay on topic and answer the OP question without trying to force some other option upon them.
You want to buy many different gloves for different situations go for it the economy depends on you. I will pay more for one good set that that will do a very decent job of many different situations.

"I'm glad you enjoy your gloves." Talk about semantic games. I use electric "liners" not electric gloves- there is a difference, a big difference. I do use and stated I use a water and wind resistance medium weight Pearl Izumi over the heated liners, not heated gloves.

JohnJ80

I am glad you enjoy your gloves (liners are still gloves).

You're missing my point - I don't ski in bike gloves and vice versa.

What temp is your set up good to? How low will it go?

J.

no motor?

I wore an electric vest and sometimes used electric (Gerbings) gloves when I had my last motorcycle, and they recommended you have enough power generation on the bike to get the most out of their products. Granted that was years ago, but I wonder what kind of runtimes you'd get with these. They might be a great idea at first, but only until the battery runs down.

And with Raynaud's, the feet are usually effected before the hands.

dabac

While they work - technically - I've never found them particularly useful for outdoors activities. They carry a rather limited amount of heat, both in time and temperature. I've tried using them for tour skating, and more often than not found them already activated and spent when I wanted to use them.

2 Piece

Sorry for delay in response, I have had some pretty serious health issues for last 6 months and actually just now noticed your post.

I ride (use to ride) year around. The coldest I have been out on my bicycle has been 13 degrees Fahrenheit and 18 degrees Fahrenheit on the motorcycle. I only go out when its this cold to commute about 6 miles each way, not for pleasure riding.

Yes, I love my liners and they work on 12 volts and come with two very small and light weight 12 volt batteries, one for each liner. The battery pack operation will last at least several hours, I have never timed them. The one thing I notice about these liners are- they never get real hot, but then again I never notice my hands or most importantly my fingers feeling cold. On my motorcycle the liners come with a cord that plugs into my Battery Tender pigtail. My motorcycle is a Kawasaki Versys 1000LT and in has hand guards factory installed which helps deflect the wind generated while riding. I have no heated hand grips, they never made any sense to me in that all of the cold weather riding I have done the palms of my hands never get cold, just finger and mostly top outer part of my hands. The liners address this and keep my hands comfortable. I use a light weight Pearl Isumi outer glover for their water resistance and to help keep the heat generated by the liners.

I do understand your point that you do not ski in bike gloves and vice versa, its a good point. However my point is I am more of a minimalist, I look for items that will serve several functions well. I know I will never be able to have the "best" of both worlds doing this, but then again I would rather have fewer things to keep up with and to maintain. So far this has worked well with the 12 volt liners. If I were to make an attempt on Mount Everest, I know I would need more than the 12 volt liners, in fact they would be a total waste of weight and useless for that. But for my commute on either my motorcycle or bicycle at least down into lower teens they work great.

Happy trails

JohnJ80

Sorry to hear about your health issues - never a good thing and it's disruptive for sure. Hope you're doing better.

It's all about the application. A cold 6 mile commute is going to have different requirements than a 1-2 hour ride would have in the same conditions. It also depends on what "cold" means.

In cycling, as you've noted in riding a motorcycle, keeping the wind off the hands is a major component of keeping your hands warm. And as you've also inferred, keeping your hands warm - but not sweaty - is also of major importance. That's the difference in cycling gloves vs deep cold hand protection (i.e. ski gloves). Cycling gloves have less of a need for generating warmth and a higher need for breathability to keep your keeping your hands dry coupled with wind resistance. Skiing or gloves for deep cold have a greater need for generating or holding warmth and a much lower need for breathability. Cycling generates a lot more heat from exertion than does skiing or other less aerobic winter activities. For cyclists, that heat that can be leveraged but it has the joint problems of sweating and wind resistance. Difficult to find hand protection that solves all of those problems simultaneously. To my knowledge, has not been done yet.

J.

Moe Zhoost

Below freezing this is what I use. The problem with heavier gloves is that you have to fight their bulk to get good grip on your bars/brakes. This causes pain and numbness for me. The poagies (AKA: barmitts or scooter mitts) create an insulated envelope into which you insert your thinly gloved hands. Nice and toasty unless it is mid teens or below.