Heated gloves

[Paul Taylor]

I am a year-round bike commuter (except when the roads are slippery).
I have a problem keeping my hands warm, and have tried the heaviest
mittens I can find, gloves with Oregon Research over-mittens, and
Moose-Mitts. None will keep my fingers warm on my 45-minute commute
below about 25 degrees.This winter I am going to invest in some
battery powered heated gloves. does anyone have any experience on
these?

[Phil and Carol Good-Elliott]

Paul - that's a long commute in the winter. I can believe your hands get cold - even with heavy gloves and pogies (Moose Mitts and the likes). One thought before you invest in heated gloves: do you wear glove liners under your bigger mitts? These make a huge difference for me. Please note that my commute is only about 15 minutes, so I can't really compare my experience to yours. Good luck!

-Phil

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[Mark Stosberg]

Paul,

Larry Clarksberg does:
http://bikeforth.org/making-winter-biking-more-comfortable-with-electric-glove/
He even figured out how to plug himself into his electric bike. :)

I have long thin fingers myself and had trouble keeping them as warm as
I wanted, even with double layers. A couple things have worked for me in
recent years.

One is change in my diet, to emphasis warming foods-- both in the
eastern sense of food classification and in the western sense of
increasing circulation. A long the same lines, a small amount of cayenne
can be applied externally to your hands before you head out. (Too much
will give you a chemical burn!).

I wrote a few posts on my blog on this topic:
http://mark.stosberg.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=cayenne&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20

The other thing has been "Bar Mitts" ( http://www.barmitts.com/ ) which
compete with Moose Mitts. I have not seen or tried the Moose Mitts
brand, but with Bar Mitts, last season I was able to be comfortable at
15 degrees with only light gloves. I think something else would become
the weakest link with Bar Mitts plus heavy or double gloves.

Mark

[Paul Taylor]

Phil & Mark. Thanks for your thoughtful replies. I've never heard of
the 'cayenne pepper' caper, but it sounds kinda messy and I think I'll
pass. I found the Moose Mitts with a fairly heavy glove to be good
down to about 25, and also a heavy leather ski mitten with a thin
liner good to about the same range. I tried the heavy mitten with the
Moose Mitt, but the leather mitten was too large to fit inside the
Moose Mitt.

So I got the battery heated gloves. I wore them for the first time
today. I think they will work fine, but they were very expensive.

On Nov 18, 9:53 pm, Mark Stosberg <m...@stosberg.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 05:19 PM, Paul Taylor wrote:
>
> > I am a year-round bike commuter (except when the roads are slippery).
> > I have a problem keeping my hands warm, and have tried the heaviest
> > mittens I can find, gloves with Oregon Research over-mittens, and
> > Moose-Mitts. None will keep my fingers warm on my 45-minute commute
> > below about 25 degrees.This winter I am going to invest in some
> > battery powered heated gloves. does anyone have any experience on
> > these?
>
> Paul,
>

> Larry Clarksberg does:http://bikeforth.org/making-winter-biking-more-comfortable-with-elect...

> He even figured out how to plug himself into his electric bike. :)
>
> I have long thin fingers myself and had trouble keeping them as warm as
> I wanted, even with double layers. A couple things have worked for me in
> recent years.
>
> One is change in my diet, to emphasis warming foods-- both in the
> eastern sense of food classification and in the western sense of
> increasing circulation. A long the same lines, a small amount of cayenne
> can be applied externally to your hands before you head out. (Too much
> will give you a chemical burn!).
>

> I wrote a few posts on my blog on this topic:http://mark.stosberg.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=cayenne&IncludeBlogs...
>
> The other thing has been "Bar Mitts" (http://www.barmitts.com/) which