Winter warmers: Best heated motorcycle gloves

A good pair of motorbike gloves is essential when the temperature drops. However, when it’s really cold, sometimes we need to actually add heat via something like a pair of heated motorcycle gloves to make sure that we stay warm and don’t begin to feel the effects of cold; a loss of concentration, followed by feeling and a decrease in safety.

One of the first areas that can start to feel cold are the hands. Many riders swear by heated grips and indeed, these will help you to keep using thinner gloves for improved feel and comfort when things start to get chilly.

However, unless you have handguards to protect your hands from the windblast, the wind-chill can drastically reduce the effective temperature at your fingertips. And in this case, you start to get cold very quickly and heated grips will do nothing to help you.

I know this from previous experience. Every winter, I find myself gravitating to a pair of heated gloves, for the simple reason that my palms tend not to get cold as they are against the grips (heated or not) but my fingertips and the back of my hand do – where the wind gets them. And a pair of heated gloves is the answer.

Best Deals at a Glance

The cold weather’s here, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be on the lookout for a decent deal on heated gloves – or rather, we can be on the lookout for you.

Over 15% off Furygan Heat X Kevlar® Heated Gloves – save £60: was £299.99, now £242.99
25% off Macna Unite RTX Heated Gloves – save £32.50: was £129.99, now £97.49
20% off Alpinestars HT-5 Heat Tech Drystar Heated Gloves – save £65: was £319.99, now £254.99
20% off RST Pro Series Paragon 6 Heated CE Gloves – save £50: was £199.99, now £159.99

The best heated motorcycle gloves

Other heated gloves recommended by MCN

What to look for in heated motorcycle gloves

One of the key decisions to make when selecting a pair of heated gloves is fundamentally how long you will spend riding in them. If you are likely to use them for an hour or two a day, then battery power is likely to be plenty for you, even on high heat settings. Most gloves should last a couple of hours on high and a handful of hours on lower settings.

However, if you plan to ride all day – you use your bike for work, you’re a blood biker or enjoy big-mile winter tours – then you might want to consider hard-wiring the gloves to the bike’s battery.

This may make it a bit more of a faff when you mount or dismount to connect cables emerging from your jacket cuffs and plugging your jacket into the bike but you will be able to run the gloves on whatever heat setting you want for as long as you want and never run out of power.

About the author: Justin Hayzelden is MCN’s resident products guru and keeps a finger on the pulse of all that’s new and important in bike kit and accessories.

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