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[JCZ]

I'm about to order heated jacket liner, pants liner, sox and gloves from Gerbing's.  Does anybody else have any experience in this area?  Pros or cons, different brand etc. I'd like to hear it.

For those who may be interested, here is the site:  http://www.gerbing.com/pages/motorcycle.html

[Cabo]

If it sooo cold that you need that stuff...take the cage!

Also What happens if it rains or snows on that stuff..I was told to keep the electric heater away from the bathtub..... [smiley=1syellow1.gif] [smiley=huepfenjump3.gif] (just kidding..I bet on long cold rides it would be great)

[mr_magoo]

To cold take the cage [smiley=confused5.gif] I can't believe my ears.  Have had good luck with gerbing stuff about half the price of HD stuff.  Make sure and get the 04 plug it is different than the 03 and earlier.

[JCZ]

Thanks for the heads up on the plug Magoo.  Sounds like Cabo (being from Texas) has never been caught in the snow or the very cold.

Cabo, when you're 2,000 miles from home and it's down around freezing and you need to put down 600-800 miles that day........there is no cage available.  It seems to happen from time to time and I'm a year round rider....that's how you get an average of 25,000 a year on your bike.  I would have thought you were one of those.

[Cabo]

Is said I was kidding.....

Just trying to spark a flame ..and it worked... [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]

[JCZ]

Is said I was kidding.....

Just trying to spark a flame ..and it worked... [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]

Cabo be nice......I know it's hard, but try! lol

[naitram]

i have the h-d jacket liner and gerbing gloves. i also have the h-d Portable Thermostat. h-d was cheaper for the thermostat gerbing was cheaper on the gloves and would have been on the jacket liner, but i got it 50% off on a big sale at a local dealer. one word of warning the accessory plug on the thermostat may look exactley like the plug for a battery tender, but the fuse is different 1.5amp for the tender and 30amp for the heated gear. i made that mistake and had to pull the seat off to change the fuse. i love the gear though i was still riding to work until the end of november

[JCZ]

I made the first plunge today. Went and ordered the wife's pants liner, jacket liner, heated gloves and heated sox (imagine that!) $640 bucks! Ooouch!!

[mr_magoo]

My understanding is yes HD uses gell batteries.  Who's heated stuff Gerbing or HD.

[JCZ]

Gerbing.  All the web sites I visited and magazine articles that I could dig up, they seem to be the premier heated clothing guru.  Plus, I could go to the BMW dealership right here in town and see the stuff first hand.

The "gel battery" question.......the salesman explained to me that Battery Tender is designed for regular motorcycle batterys that charge at a 1 amp an hour rate.  He went on to say that jel batteries have to be charged at a much slower rate to be totally efficient and complete charge....more like 1/2 amp per hour.  So they (Battery Tender) makes a new charger special for gel batteries.  It's not in the same type of package thow.....it's black and gold packaging and did not have "Battery Tender" name prominent like the regular green and yellow package.

He did say that the original battery tender will help your battery to last longer than a battery without one, but not as long as the new battery tender will help your battery to last.

Just another expense to either be comfortable or save money. lol

[psycho]

I'm about to order heated jacket liner, pants liner, sox and gloves from Gerbing's.

[naitram]

i went from shirt+sweatshirt+leather jacket+denim vest to shirt+heated liner+sweatshirt+denim vest and i dont feel like the "michelin man" anymore and i'm much warmer on a rare ocasion i added an extra sweatshirt

[JCZ]

Psycho I've been riding that way all my life.....
I'm thinkin at my age I'm deserving something a little nicer, a little more comfortable.

They do have an attachment if you're also using a battery tender (which I will be).  But the electric clothes are so expensive, they're cutting into my mod money (and I'm not done with my truck yet, either).

[mr_magoo]

Thats the good part about getting older we can afford the good stuff,  or is that we are smarter.[smiley=nixweiss.gif]

[JCZ]

Asked some questions reagarding electrical clothing.