which handle muffs?

i know they are ugly but i rather be safe and have slightly warm hand.

please post link

do they still press on to the levers at speed? Or are those just a pair of crap ones i bought many years ago?

i’m tempted with some of these and dare i say it heated grips and a top box :pinch: old before my time

i found the Tucano Urbano ones to be best, could keep in summer gloves right into winter :slight_smile:

http://www.urbanrider.co.uk/tucano-urbano/shop-for-accessories/tucano-urbano-bar-muffs.html?gclid=CJHHzJGH1qsCFQUNfAodUj_uRg

i have heated grips and muffs (in winter) and a top box. im only 19 :stuck_out_tongue:

I had some of the oxford ones, and I adapted them by drilling through them to fix them with my bar-end. Warm, but gay…oh, and prevents full lock on a sports bike

what about if you use them on the motorway, will be muff fly away? note that ill be using these on a handle bar

They’re strapped on past the controls and attatched to each other via a strap between them as ‘standard’. I threw away the strap and bolted them onto the bar ends (like the tucano ones)

Your bike has higher bars so should be fine, although I’d still do the ‘mod’ to attach them to the bar ends.

Why not buy the Tucano Urbano ones that area lready ‘modded’ for the bar ends? I was always told these were the best but I never got any…

This year I think I’m going to go for KEIS heated inner gloves…

Can’t remember, I think they were 30 or 40 quid more, and a drill is free :smiley:

Until you do something stupid like drilling into the tank by accident! :stuck_out_tongue:

that happened to me once doing 70 on the M4 in the outside lane. Trying to hold the throttle open with 1 hand and pushing the brake lever open with my fingertips was a bit scary.

ever since then I’ve hated muffs

Properly designed and fitted muffs won’t foul levers etc. The only time it has happened to me was when I had the muffs improperly fitted. With the correct fitting they don’t foul anything even at three figure speeds and make a huge difference in riding compfort in winter.

Generic muffs are rubbish - you need ones that are designed to fit the bike, and it is well worth paying for decent TU or Bagster ones.

Nothing wrong with a pair of muffs. Age doesn’t matter look at Hew Heffner…He is still racking them up at 65+

has anyone fitted these to a hornet, or something with a similar bar/mirror arrangment?

id like to know if the mirrors/mastercylinder etc get in the way of fitting them properly

Those look similar to the Bike-It Boxer muffs I had on the scooter, they just slip over the lever so don’t interfere with the controls. Bit weird trying to operate the indicator through the ‘thumb’ part of the muff :expressionless:

…but as Boris says, I was wearing vented summer gloves all winter to ride (only up to 5 miles) to work, so they were worth 20 quid!

i had these on the hornet last year,

They are a bit of a pain to fit but once thats done they stay on for winter.

the bad points i found were the plastic boots that cover the mirrors/switchgear etc. they’re not lined with anything and you cant really seal these up properly so you still get a fair bit of wind blast directed inside and on to the hands.

anything more than 5 miles or so and you start to end up with pretty cold fingers so im after something better before it gets cold

r_o_b - you need to pack them with old newspaper to keep the draughts out :slight_smile:

I had the Tucano Urbano ones on my old CB500. They did foul the levers at high speed until I fitted a monumental screen and then they were fine. I left them on in the summer too as I didn’t find that my hands go too warm. I did get any drafts either.