Brrr... I need heated grips.

Use a trick developed by the military - a cord shorter than the flex is
attached between the appliance (you)and the plug, so that if you forget
to disconnect before dismounting, it simply pulls the plug out without
wrecking the cable. The same can be done on the supply lead.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

How will a series/parallel switch help?

Won't it just make the downstream (or whatever the electrickery word is)
grip cooler?

I would like to know as I'm hoping to fit my grips this weekend.

 

I optimistically tried a battery-powered heated waistcoat from Maplins
last year, and it was warm-ish.
I converted it to plug into the BMs socket and burned my chest the first
time I tried it.
I then got a resistor (a big ceramic thing) from a friend here a work
and that made the jacket better but the pocket with the resistor got too
hot.
It then exposed the cheap quality of the inner jacket wiring by burning
through one of them, melting the nylon of the heated jacket, scorching
my shirt and jumper and burning my shoulder.

This year I'm playing safe and strapping a calor gas heater on the pillion.

 

The grips on my R1100RS were good, but the alloy handlebars conducted
the heat away before it got to my hands.

 

It just series the grips for lower output (if you series two resistances
it halves the current and the power, therefore the heat output) or
parallels them for twice the current draw, twice the heat.
In the absence of an s/p switch it's perfectly fine to just connect the
grips in series and try them out. I found that paralleling them was too
hot and it's only of use as a boost setting for a few minutes. I suspect
the life of the grip is reduced at the higher setting anyway.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

I'm not sure if you'd like the seats in the RX - they're *very* firm.
Then again, maybe that's what's good for a bad back.

 

Thanks for that. I didn't know it would make both cooler.

I have filed Ropes explanation away in my head to make me look clever at
a later date, but I'll probably use the wrong lunchline.

 

IME it's the shape that's important, not the firmness. The "sports"
bucket seats in Jude's 206cc are very firm and ordinarily perfectly
comfortable, but with my back issues it's been painful at times, even
with a hospital-supplied back wedge/cushion thingy. The Volvo's seats,
by contrast, are as comfy as a comfy thing with extra comfiness,
despite the fact that they too are very firm; they're nice and big,
though, with a straight back, whereas the Peugeot seems to want me to
bend to fit into them, IYSWIM.

Of course, this is rapidly becoming a thing of the past for me, as the
recovery continues. Hopefully at some point I'll be able to move
myself out of the 'crippled' box and resume laughing at youpoor sods
with knackered backs, hips etc.

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I occasionally get back pain - nothing serious, just muscular strain, which
I'm much better at avoiding nowadays. I had it about a dozen years ago,
when I had to drive an old Bedford CF Luton van back to NI - 400ish miles of
motorway to Stranraer. I expected to be crippled at the other end, but
actually I was entirely pain-free. The seat although apparently nothing
special, had held me in exactly the right position for the whole 10 hours.

The Fuglypla has lovely seats, and from what I recall of my FiL's old SAAB
900, which is the only SAAB I've driven long distances in, the seats were
excellent. But the best seats by far were the armchairs in the Rangie.

 

ITYF heated gloves are the way to go.

Mark

 

A car steering wheel.

 

I use those on my bike and they're dead good. A major plus point is
that they plug into the Optimate socket and changing them from one
bike to another is a 5 minute job.

 

This reminds me of when, in the late 70's I used to work for a bike dealer
called ABC in West Drayton and Earls Court, we used to sell a range of
heated gloves and jacket liners made by a slightly odd bloke in a garage in
Slough, any way, we had been selling this stuff, quite well, for a few weeks
when loads of it started coming back with complaints of people getting burnt
and melting nylon clothing, (remember Belstaff Brigand jackets?) it turned
out that none of the stuff had any form of regulation, it just relied on
heat loss through wind to keep it cool! We stopped selling it fairly soon
after.

 

Captain Maurice Seddon, Royal Signals (retired). Wonderful lunatic.

http://tinyurl.com/322p5c

 

message

Thats the chap, couldn't remember is name.

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel says...

Daytonas. Had three or four sets on different bikes and they're great.
You're welcome to try the ones fitted to my Daytona anytime you like.
I'll even fit them for you if you like.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Daytona-Heated-Motorcycle-
Grips_W0QQitemZ330176022621QQihZ014QQcategoryZ25626QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrd
Z1QQcmdZViewItem

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE
Suzuki SV650 K3
Honda CBR600 F-W
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka

 

I met him once, early '90s, when I was living round that way.

Total and utter loon. He'd long since decided that heated clothing was
the only solution, so didn't have ANY other heating in his house - he
just plugged his thermals in to each room.

Drove a VW Beetle which he'd rewired himself. With the home-brew loom P-
clipped to the *outside* of the shell.

 

The Older Gentleman ( (The Older
Gentleman)) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Aye, Datchet. Definitely the same bloke.

 

I thought it was your back was crocked, not your arm.