The Essential Guide to Heated Gear

[@RevZilla]

Check out Brandon’s Common Tread article on whether you should buy heated gear! rvz.la/3gMVCCP

[@dongguanwarmlovesmarttechn818]

we made battery pack for heated apparel

[@LividAxis]

It's also essential to keep sizes in stock through out the winter season!

[@jimgordon3468]

Gerbings is by far the best heated gear. Socks, pants, jacket and gloves. Plug right into battery tender. Done. I ride all winter long. Pennsylvania winters.

[@redeyedfreaks]

Gotta say I've used the hotwired grear and it's opened doors. If you're not cold there's less reason to not go out. Yes there's wires, but man once you've been out at 0-32° F and been (reasonably) comfortable it's well worth the trade off.

[@TrigunV4S]

Got a heated Hotwired jacket this year game changer for sure! So much more comfortable now in colder weather! Also got the Hotwired gloves and recently got the sale RevZilla had on the Hotwire pants haven’t tried them yet still waiting on the y splitter! Definitely recommend Hotwired

[@Blazemon9999]

Wow, really informative. Didn't really learn anything new, but this guide would have saved me hours of research last season when I finally bought a full set of heated gear. Like you said, once you have it you'll never go without it.

[@thinkdunson]

gloves is all you need. buy a decent winter jacket and a rain suit, and your core will be plenty warm. the rain suit will block the wind so the jacket liner can keep you warm. i'm in texas and i don't actually use my heated gloves unless the temps get under 40, which is very rarely. if you ride every day, anything above that won't bother you as long as you have good winter gear. the best gloves i found that aren't heated are actually very cheap; they're called Kemi Moto. and my jacket is the Rev'It Tornado 3. i've worn that jacket down to 32 (with nothing else for my torso) and up to whatever, and it's fine for my 20 mile commute. if i still had my longer commute, or if the temps get below that, i'd throw on my two piece Nelson Rigg rain jacket and pants to block the wind a bit more. and the few times the temps have gotten below 25 or so, i have a First Gear fully insulated one-piece rain suit (not heated). if i wear that suit when it's 32, i'll be soaked in sweat when i get to work; that's how warm it is. just a warning though, i've never owned a rain suit that's 100% waterproof. when my commute was 70 miles one way, i would arrive soaking wet regardless of which suit i wore. i don't know how because there's no visible way for the water to get it, but it does. and no, not through the neck. i would guess through the seams when the speed is high enough, but on the nelson rigg, it's got a kind of plastic-y seal inside the seams. so anyway, if it's below forty-five degrees AND raining? you'll freeze to death if your ride is longer than a few miles. (i mean, i've done it and i'm not dead, but i think i might be a bit more stubborn than most.) i would say no more than 20, but depending on you, that may be way too much. less than 10 miles and i wouldn't even wear the rain suit, just the rev'it with liner, unless it's absolutely pouring rain.

[@thinkdunson]

7:34 that's not a coax cable. it's not even a twisted pair. coaxial cable is cylindrical and the conductors surround a common axis. twisted pair is... a pair that's twisted. what we have here has no special name, but i suppose you could go crazy and call it a, two conductor cable with barrel connector. the connector could theoretically be called coaxial, because the two leads are in fact coaxial, but it's got its own name already and we generally try to differentiate between cable and connector. and that concludes your first class on, Why I'm Single 101.

[@phillip-tx9565]

Thank you !!! I've just started researching heated gear, and several people mention the "coax" cable. Each time I have wondered what are they talking about exactly - and is it really coaxial cable !

[@John_Ridley]

I get through Michigan winters with just heated grips. It's important to wear an outer layer that totally blocks the wind. I did build up my cold tolerance by bicycle commuting all winter with no heated gear at all but of course on a bike you make your own heat and don't have such high winds. Still, subzero temps are brutal, frostbite can get ya.

[@johnraconteur1723]

Y'all are tough as nails up North in regard to the cold. You just made me feel like a fool for the way that I shiver and shake in Southern winters when the temp drops below 50 degrees.

[@Mark-ou8nu]

So close to 1 million!

[@phunwithphiphi8055]

Any practical refrigerated gear on the horizon?

[@mrhlynnu1464]

That would be awesome!

[@GreatEgret]

Oh, man! We need cooling seats like in my brother's Raptor!

[@A_Ride_To]

@@GreatEgret there are seats with cooling for HD touring Models 14- but i dont know of any other bike that got that option.

[@GreatEgret]

@@A_Ride_To Now that's something I'd like to try! The more you know ⭐

[@Fee.1]

I've been saying this man its overdue

[@Fee.1]

what should I wear to make me buff like your base layer model

[@PovilasPanavas]

Try protein :D

[@Fee.1]

@@PovilasPanavas so inject bananas ? Into the muscle or the veins ? 😳

[@PovilasPanavas]

@@Fee.1 Bananas has no protein :) Google says medium size banana has only a single gram of protein. Try meat :D

[@Fee.1]

@@PovilasPanavas oh right mixed it up with potassium

[@CandyBarMoto]

Y'all should have also pointed out NOT EVERY MOTORCYCLE CAN USE HEATED GRIPS. I just installed a set of Flymoto bars on my Harley, and they are not compatible with Heated Grips... I knew that ahead of time. But most people don't research everything with a psychotic obsession like I do 🤷‍♂️ before purchasing stuff.

[@jayw900]

That's an issue with the bars not the bike as you're claiming.

[@LUCKY-mo5ex]

Do the make a set that daisy chain everything gloves jack paints socks that is powered by your bike?

[@johnbragg2690]

I have heated grips on 2 of my motorcycle. the problem i find is that the tips of my fingers seem to get coldest. I currently use joe rocket frontier gloves that help, but on interstates im good for about 30 miles at 28ish degree weather any suggestion for glove vs liner or gloves that have the best element in the fingertips. I intend on being wired and idk how cold can be zero or below as long as i'm riding🙂

[@babybugspaw7085]

Can I use Harley Davison’s heated gloves with Hot Wire Jacket? The jack looks like a AUX cord.

[@ClassicRider]

The wiring instructions in your vid are tapping directly into your battery. Why have you not provided a relay that is activated by the Ignition switch as your gear can directly drain a motorcycle battery's power within a few min's? Given that your device trolls the battery, what advice if any do you provide for starting a bike in the cold while wearing your heated gear? For example, I just had a great lunch, and my bike was parked for over an hour in windchill of 35f. Are there instructions for best practices as to when to hook up, or is it 'just hook up?' Btw: Try a relay and then set a precedent in the heated gear market place. Btw1: It would also be cool if able to run also directly off its own battery pack like the vest I have -

[@juha2031]

0:27 How do you clip nails like those?

[@rebirthofthecool5619]

What about heated socks?

[@billmilstead1473]

Great video

[@tocccapotato7229]

Thank you for the explination

[@gjkMN]

Brandon, how are you riding in Pennsylvania winters? There's snow..

[@RevZilla]

We get very light dustings here in Philly. I'd hardly call it snow but I'm from the mountains of NC so perhaps I have a different perspective... -Brandon

[@TrigunV4S]

@@RevZilla what do you ride for the winter?

[@rogervallve7375]

snow tires!

[@michaelcase8574]

Its interesting to me that the price difference between heated vest and heated jacket liner is only about $20. Looks like manufactures don't like selling the vests.

[@Vstromxt]

How do you clean sweaty stinky heated gear?

[@SirBalageG]

I guess the point is to keep you warm enough to feel comfortable but not too hot to sweat. Also an alternator doesn't really have the capacity to heat you to sweating, at least my bike doesn't

[@masonwilliams4914]

Brandon is SO HOT!!!

[@darius2640]

or you know just get a car hit one button on the automatic climate control and boom you're warm

[@John_Ridley]

Yeah but then you'd be in a car.

[@redeyedfreaks]

@@John_Ridley 😂

[@johnraconteur1723]

Being in a car means that we miss things like the crispness of air in the morning when there is snow on the ground but the roads are clear.