Sort of. They are some sort of stiff foam. You slip them over the levers and such and use Velcro straps to hold them on. The opening facing you is much larger than Hippo Hands so it’s easy to put your hands in and out even when wet. The ones I have are made by Arctic Cat for ATVs and snow machines.

I agree, the hand shields look bad but they do work. I’m not ready to ugly up the Vespa yet though.

As far as connections for the gloves — attached the leads to the battery, run the cable to wherever you want it and that’s about it. Nothing hard at all. I use mine for the gloves on the road and the Battery Tender in the garage. Power flows both ways.

The end of the lead where I plug in failed because of corrosion. It hangs out year round and I suspect the elements got to it.

Don’t think I’ll add a battery lead for the gloves to the spare. This one lasted years. I’ll take my chances unless I head to Alaska.

Months of cold weather ahead!

Found a worn spot in the wiring, it must have been contacting metal somewhere and blowing the inline fuse.

In my defense it was July, and State College was in the fiery grip of a heat wave.

If you could spare the time to describe how your gloves are wired, and also what bits corroded that would be a great help.

I personally think that the combination of heated grips and enclosing hand shields (I would go with Tucano Urbano if I went that route) would be heaven. But I hate the look of hand shields.

So I think I’ll put Gerbing gloves on my Santa list and cross my fingers.

I was thinking I’d install an outlet on the left knee pad have that hooked up to a Warm-n-Safe Heattroller digital heat control.

What do you think?

Will a spare connector now become part of your “spares” list?

You’re making me cold just reading your words. I used to have heated gloves and YES, they work much better than heated grips BUT I kept forgetting to unplug when dismounting.

We generally can’t ride in the mornings here due to icy/frosty roads,

bob
Riding the Wet Coast