So I’m looking to get a pair sharpish as I’m comuting to Milton Keynes for a few weeks.
I was looking at the Oxford hot grips but are like £70
there are others like R&G for about £40
so any experience with the above or any others I could look at just seems to be a massive price difference and am I paying an extra £30 for the name.
Ta
Bike magazine rate the R&G as best buy with the oxfords a close second.
Go for the one with the most gradient settings, the oxfords have 4 so it’s really easy to get it just right. I had them on the last bike and they are superb. My KTM had the KTM ones fitted and they have 2 settings, one of which is too hot (so hot it can get painful, quickly, which is not good!) and the other is not hot enough, so you have to keep switching between the two, which is an arse, but not as bad as not having any. worth the £30 for comfort and ease of use IMHO.
No experience with heated grips, I’m looking at the Oxford Bone dry handle bar muffs, appears to be the choice of couriers
R&G are sh1te, don’t even bother
Oxford ones get really warm but I’ve had the controllers fail on me
The Dr Bike ones I’ve been running recently seem rather good at £30 or so…
Have you got muffs? Heated grips keep the inside of your hands warm, the part that isn’t in the wind blast. By their design they are not efficient at keeping the bit of your hands that freezes warm.
Some say heated grips + muffs is a match made in heaven. Muffs on their own make the biggest difference though. Tucano Urbano ones are great.
On my R&G ones the controller died (think it was just after the year period for warranty had ended
I had the oxford ones on after that and they seemed like a much better quality product but the way I positioned the cables meant that at some point one of them got cut by the way my tank was sitting after I had to lift it and they got buggered… 
I would agree with Joby though, the best thing on my bike is the muffs… though when I had both on it was really great! 
less hassle is to buy and fit oxford heated gloves no need to bugger around with grips and wire them into bike battery - 2 mins unless you can’t find your battery
Those Oxford heated gloves are tipping the scales at around 150 hard earned :w00t:
I’ll stay on plan A in the bargain basement with Oxford’s £35 Bone Dry muffs 
Karl buy my Oxford ones £45 ill fot them at my work
I’ll take them if sleeper doesn’t want them Shiver…
Cool that’s good with me I’ve got heated gloves now
just pm’d you mate
I got mine off ebay for £100 - arrived last week perfect and lovely and warm but appreciate your not wanting to spend that much
A hundred quid are you serious?!??!
I brought some heated gloves as well, tried it on the bike today.
Couldn’t get the bike to start. Other the batterie isn’t giving enought power or may be to much. Not sure how to get that right
Sometimes Dobles in Coulsdon do Oxford Hotgrips at around £40 due to some deal they have with Oxford. Might be worth ringing them to see if they have any deals like that on at the mo’.
I’ve had my R&Gs for coming up to two years and still working as good as when I first got them. They don’t get as hot as Oxfords though.
I refused to get the Oxford ones because I didn’t want my grips to say Oxford all over them. The R&G ones are plain.
Not tried either grip, but have heard the control knob on the R&G ones is supposed to be easier to use with gloves on.
Also gone down the heated gloves route. You just missed a good Powerbuy, with some Gerbing ones going for £100. Although I’m still waiting for mine to turn up!
I bought a pair in the powerbuy too 
I’m guessing they’ll turn up at the end of the week with any luck.
I missed out on the powerbuy - started to go through the process, then got a phone call, by the time I came back they were up to 30 people so all gone
