Keeping your hands warm?

[YoungBlood]

does anyone have any tips for keeping your hands warm at below 40 degree weather? The rest of my cold weather gear works pretty well, and I've got a pair for waterproof thinsulate gloves. But after about 10 minutes my hands are freezing.

[awsmsrv]

I've got the Warm & Safe Ultimate Touring Heated Gloves. They work great.

[Flyinfool]

I just rode an hour in to work today at 55 mph speeds, the temp was 31° when I left the house. The only part of me that gets cold is my cheeks (no not those cheeks, the ones on my face:crackup:)

I have a pair of blaze orange Gore-Tex, Thinsulate hunting gloves from Cabalas. I never felt a hint of cold on my hands this morning.

These are the same gloves that keep my hands warm sitting out in my deer stand all day in sub zero temps.

I will take a hike out to the parking lot later to see if there is a brand name on them anywhere.

I have other "waterproof" Thinsulate gloves that do not do as good of a job as the Gore-Tex because they do not breath causing my hands to sweat and the moisture then nullifies the insulation.

There are also some brands that have the insulation on the outside of the water barrier that allows the wind to blow thru the insulation robbing all of the stored heat.

I tried a lot of pairs of gloves before I found this set that work great.

 

The other Key thing to keeping your hands warm is to make sure that the rest of you is warm. If your body temp starts to drop even just a little bit, the body's first response is to reduce blood flow to the hands to conserve heat.

[pegscraper]

I have a set of hand guards from National Cycle that I put on the bike in cold seasons. They'll keep the hard wind off of your hands and make whatever other gloves you use work a lot better. I know, you don't like windshields. You may not want them either.

[YoungBlood]

lol after my ride last night @ 34 degrees I'm seriously considering getting a windshield

[SilvrT]

Hard-boil 2 eggs, put them in your pockets, insert hands in pockets...voila` nice and toasty!

 

[YoungBlood]

I've heard that about baked potatoes slvr

[ctraylor]

I ride my BMW when it is cold with heated hand grips

[E-Fishin-C]

Ski-doo mitts with Hand warmers the only way we do it in Northern Ontario

[SilvrT]

I've heard that about baked potatoes slvr

 

ya, potatoes might be better coz you wouldn't get them mixed up with other, egg-sized warm things.... :rotf:

[Condor]

I just open the side vents and stick my hands down between my leg and the false tank cover. Nice and toasty....

[Herb In Texas]

I ride all winter in carhart bibs and jacket with my beloved Gerbing gloves. Temps to the low 20's and 70 mph not a problem at all. I got Dawn a TourMaster gloves and a TourMaster Electric jacket with a temperature control dealy for what I paid for the gerbing though. When the gerbings crap out I will likly goe with the tourmaster stuff.

[Yammer Dan]

I just open the side vents and stick my hands down between my leg and the false tank cover. Nice and toasty....

 

I do that.

 

 

 

If you ever ride with the sheild you won't go back.

[Guest seuadr]

i have mesh summer gloves that i slip tillman welding gauntles over. the pigskin ones for tig. soft enough that i can still feel controls and manipulate them just fine, thick enough my fingers don't even know it's cold!

[jer878]

I just rode an hour in to work today at 55 mph speeds, the temp was 31° when I left the house. The only part of me that gets cold is my cheeks (no not those cheeks, the ones on my face:crackup:)

I have a pair of blaze orange Gore-Tex, Thinsulate hunting gloves from Cabalas. I never felt a hint of cold on my hands this morning.

These are the same gloves that keep my hands warm sitting out in my deer stand all day in sub zero temps.

I will take a hike out to the parking lot later to see if there is a brand name on them anywhere.

I have other "waterproof" Thinsulate gloves that do not do as good of a job as the Gore-Tex because they do not breath causing my hands to sweat and the moisture then nullifies the insulation.

There are also some brands that have the insulation on the outside of the water barrier that allows the wind to blow thru the insulation robbing all of the stored heat.

I tried a lot of pairs of gloves before I found this set that work great.

 

The other Key thing to keeping your hands warm is to make sure that the rest of you is warm. If your body temp starts to drop even just a little bit, the body's first response is to reduce blood flow to the hands to conserve heat.

 

 

I've heard people being called " A$$ Face" so some people might not be clear on the cheeks still. LOL

[RedRider]

If your going any distance in the cold, and you don't want to spring for electrics, hit the Walmart for a couple of items (may be out of season now though).

 

First, get a pair of mechanics gloves. Thin and skin tight. Then get a set of hunting mittens. The kind with the flip top over the fingers. Then purchase several packs of the chemical hand warmers. Place one in the mitten top on the outside of the the fingers and another on the inside of the fingers.

 

Drove 700+ miles in weather that never went above 40F and was fine, until the chemical hand warmers ran out of juice about an hour from home. It was 25F when I got home and I was frozen.

 

RR

[friesman]

I just buy the hand warmer packs and slide one on top of my hand in a glove or mitten and I am fine. the packs of hand warmers are cheap, I think Princess Auto charges less than a buck for two

 

Brian

Edited April 29, 2010 by friesman

[painterman67]

ok Going to post this without testing the theory. But a fellow rider and myself discussed this the other day. He said he bought your standard ruibber gloves used for cleaning with chemicals and wore them under his insulated gloves and his hands were completeley warm in below frezzing weather. Agin I havent tested this but I will next winter as being a painter I have various types of rubber gloves on the truckranging from light weight like used in a doctors office to the heavy duty work gloves used in commercial type applications. Seems to me to be a goood idea as whenever I wear rubber gloves of any type my hands get hot.

 

 

 

David

[SteveP]

First -expensive- choice: Gerbings heated gloves.

Second -inexpensive- choice: A disposable hand warmer in each non-electric glove.

 

They even make foot warmer insoles, though I haven't tried them yet... my boots are warm enough as is... maybe for my passenger (but she usually stays off the cycle if it's too cold).

[Scooter Bob]

I put heated grips on, but they weren't cuttin' it when I headed south end of Feb and it was 8 degrees out.

 

I put a chemical hand warmer on the back of my hand inside a $25 pair of 150 gram thinsulate ice fishing gloves.

 

Life was good, did 460 miles that day. I can't believe I never used them thing all these years.

 

I also had one of those same hand warmers between my regular and wool socks in the arch of my foot inside my snowmobile boots.

 

My riding season just got waaaay longer.

 

Later, Scooter Bob

[pegscraper]

lol after my ride last night @ 34 degrees I'm seriously considering getting a windshield

 

No windshield in 34º. I don't know how you do that. I don't mind the looks of the windshield that much. Now I really do not care for the looks of the hand guards at all, but when my fingers get so cold that they can't function, for me that's a safety issue and this becomes a matter of function over form. They do stretch my riding season out quite a bit. I take them off in the summer.

 

Whatever happened to the reusable hand warmers? They'd last for hours when activated. When they were done, boil them in water for a few minutes to reset them, then they were good to use again. I used to have a couple but they disappeared sometime. Now all I can find are these throw away ones.

[Brake Pad]

My wife and I carry a small jar of petroleum Jelly.

while riding in cooler weather. we rub a tiny bit on our face and fingers and wrests.

The Petrolem will not stick to your gloves. if allowed to dry in alittle.

 

we also use it scuba diving, in freezing weather. :scubadive:The visiting tourists, look at us like were crazy. but its not for while your under water, its for when you come back to the surface, and do your site time, between dives. they are now freezing their butss off, :rotf:and your sitting, in 98.6 degrees body heat. relaxing in our wet-wet suits:confused24:

[Guest Oldsalt]

ok Going to post this without testing the theory. But a fellow rider and myself discussed this the other day. He said he bought your standard ruibber gloves used for cleaning with chemicals and wore them under his insulated gloves and his hands were completeley warm in below frezzing weather. Agin I havent tested this but I will next winter as being a painter I have various types of rubber gloves on the truckranging from light weight like used in a doctors office to the heavy duty work gloves used in commercial type applications. Seems to me to be a goood idea as whenever I wear rubber gloves of any type my hands get hot.

 

 

 

David

 

I tried this and it did nothing for me. I was able to get some (not a lot, but some) relief by putting on two pair of thin cotton gloves (the cheap ones that Cabellas sells) and they seem OK but not a real solution. Next will try the disposable hand warmers as they are cheap and will not over-tax my electrical system which is what the real solution (Gerbers) would do. Thanks to you folks for the disposable hand warmers idea.

 

oldsalt

[aharbi]

I have heated grips yet my finger tips still get cold. I've bought several pair of "winter riding gloves", snowmobile gloves, glove liners, etc. If you do much cold weather riding bite the bullet and get a pair of electric heated gloves. Well worth the $135 bucks.

[uechi kid]

Try these. I've used them while working in the freezer at work. They worked well for me. Most grocery stores carry them.

http://www.uline.com/BL_1198/Hand-and-Foot-Warmers?pricode=wq825