Good afternoon youtube and welcome back to the channel it's a beautiful sunny day here in
Scotland but the temperature is actually sitting around maybe two to three degrees centigrade
so just above freezing. I figured it's a really good day to go out
on my Royal Enfield Himalayan do an install plus review on my oxford hot grips stay tuned.
These are the Oxford Hot Grips and they are the adventure version and i bought them for myself
just before Christmas i got a really good deal on them actually i looked online and i saw them at
Infinity Motorcycles in Glasgow so popped up there and i picked them up of course you can get them
on amazon and ebay and all these different places as well i'll put some likes below to help you out.
When you're installing these of course you need to remove the original grips folks so you can try and
break the glue i guess well you know with like a screwdriver or something up between the bar or you
can do what i did and just take a Stanley knife if you're not intending to use the grips again
just take a sharp knife and cut those off throw them in a bin. You want to make sure
that your bars nice and clean so any excess glue or anything on there you need to clean that off
all i did folks was take a fine grit sandpaper you know and rough that up which obviously helps
with the adhesion of the new grips because of super glue going on there to hold these on.
It's getting a bit chilly bear in mind folks that super glue dry's obviously very very quick so
when i put these on i put them on dry first just to satisfy myself that i had them
exactly where i wanted them to be before i go sticking them on there
that's especially important with the throttle.
Be sure
you're happy where you're routing the cables now of course the best thing to do is take the tank
off i've done a little video on how to remove and replace the tank before so i'll put a little link
to that up towards the end of this video here. Oh the change in the weather in the last 40 minutes
is just unbelievable it's definitely dropped several degrees in temperature that's for sure.
Of course you need to install the little controller here and what i did is i actually
cut this so that it would fit exactly in this space here and i just used a metal cutting disc
for that there. To be honest i think that's a really neat place to have that it's really handy
it's exactly where you would want it to be. It's got very cloudy all of a sudden now if you look
at this little controller here you can see that it's actually got a plus and a minus button it's
got nine different settings so it goes 30 40 50 all the way up to 100 percent which is obviously
the warmest setting there. This is the adventure style heated grip all of these are basically the
same yeah but the texture of them, the texture of them is going to be slightly different they're all
trimmable so you don't necessarily even if you've got an adventure motorbike you don't necessarily
need to buy you know the adventure grips here you know grips are grips i just happen to find
these ones you know for a really good price now they're also wider than the standard grip which
really suits me i must admit because i've got quite big hands there's nothing wrong
with the last ones but you know these just feel a little bit grippier for me a little bit better.
What a difference eh? Okay so who are these hot grips for well they're for people who
ride motorcycles in cold weather of course now the lowest setting here is good for you know what uh
sort of balmy October evening sort of halfway up you know i usually have these set to maybe
60 or 70 percent but then once you start getting into this type of weather when you're in the snow
then you're best to just crank them up all the way in my opinion everybody's
different but when you do that it stops the tips of your fingers from going numb or
it does for me. Of course something else that would complement these grips would be
winter gloves and also you know decent hand guards my hand guards are off at the minute
there's a little bit of a story behind that but i'm going to be replacing them in the very
near future. Obviously it helps in this type of weather just to sort of break the wind.
Break the wind? If you only ride when the sun's out you know a fair weather rider then you know
buying the hot grips or heated grips is probably going to be the last thing on your shopping list.
I'm being very cautious at the moment because the wind is kicking up to maybe 40 kilometres an hour.
Let's just wipe the snow off the camera.
Let's go!
That's a little off-road track so let's just turn here
have a little noisy through the forest for a minute.
Let's keep the Himalayan Motorcycle nice and slow here.
Very cool.
There's also quite often an element of bravado shall we say in motorbiking or in the biking
community yeah it's usually a little bit of banter i find with my friends and stuff you know but it's
comments like "Oh heated grips you know that's for p....." "Or what have you heated grips for you're
an old man" . You know. Okay let's just turn the bike here because it's gonna be dark soon.
My advice is.. very cool there's another track there i need to come back up here
maybe come back tomorrow actually what was i saying oh yeah so my advice is you know ride
your own ride at the end of the day don't be embarrassed by those types of comments i know
it's easy to to do we've also got to think about you know who's making those comments who cares
you know. There's a friend of mine that actually said that to me it's an old trope.
Literally I just had fun with him but i touched a nerve a little bit
because i could literally count on one hand the number of times he's had his bike out of the
garage in the last 12 months i think the last time he had it out would have been August
Ah windy! What a day huh anyway that's it for this one guys i really hope you liked it if
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