Originally Posted by
qcpmsame
I am surprised no one has mentioned the A'me heated bar wrap in this thread. Kind of pricey (actually it is stomp down pricey) and you have to mount the battery, kind of exacting in its installation if you have aluminum or steel bars, too. They made heated dirt bike grips for quite a while now, the enduro crowd likes them up north. Any one here using this for their hand warmth issues?
They have demos in the showroom at the LBS across the street from me. I turned them up full blast, waited a minute, then put my gloves on and tried them out.
As you would expect, like an oven mitt, gloves insulate from the heat as well as from the cold. Might be okay in the 'tween seasons while wearing half-finger gloves or none at all. Winter? A gimmick.
I'm good down to the mid-teens wearing an extra-large pair of windproof 'tween seasons cycling gloves over a large pair of summer-weight long-fingered MTB gloves.
When buying lobsters, try them on first. If your fingers are paired together inside the glove, it's okay to buy. If your fingers are separated by the liner (like a glove) don't buy them since they've defeated the purpose of pairing your fingers.
For real cold, nothing beats a good pair of snowboarder's mittens. (They're less bulky than snowmobile mittens.) And yes, I can work the levers of my STI without difficulty while wearing them. I have to shift my hands a bit and use a slightly different technique, but they're quite usable with integrated road levers.