Has Anyone Fitted Heated Grips

Has anyone fitted heated grips to their 800? Any advice on what to buy and fitting gratefully received!

iv'e been thinking about heated grips for awhile now i fancy the heat demons that fit inside the handlebars but don't know about the switch mount i'd like to see some before commiting to buy!

ippikin wrote:

Has anyone fitted heated grips to their 800? Any advice on what to buy and fitting gratefully received!

no difference between the 800 and any other bike but the only ones that I could find with any bling to them at all were these Link I don't think you will go far wrong with Oxford heated grip as they are about the biggest seller of them

smart wrote:

iv'e been thinking about heated grips for awhile now i fancy the heat demons that fit inside the handlebars but don't know about the switch mount i'd like to see some before commiting to buy!

I know Mr I was looking in to those as he does not want to sacrifice his fancy kuryakyn ones for the heat maybe he will know a little about the as we all know what he is like for researching stuff

thats the reason i wanted the heat demons they go inside the handlebars and you can fit any grips you want i.e kuryacyn which are on my wish list!

Yeah they are the ones that I will be getting, they are very clever and as already said you can keep your after market grips on. They have Clear, step-by-step instructions which are included with the Heat Demons
universal mounting kit. They also have a template to help you drill the
hole to run the wires to the control switch.

Because the heat element installs within the motorcycle’s handlebar, you can use whatever grips you want! No more crappy looking grips
required to keep your hands warm.



One button controls a combined total of 40W of heat energy.

Dimmable LED lamp allows you to see what setting the heaters
are on. The control switch is also available in either a black or chrome so that should keep you happy which ever direction you take your M or C in .

hi guys the cheapest heat demons i've found so far is £110 from windingroads.co.uk with a choice of switches chrome or black, for my vl it would have to be chrome don't you just love it!

I agree chrome is a must for the C, very clever setup on these

smart wrote:

hi guys the cheapest heat demons i've found so far is £110 from windingroads.co.uk with a choice of switches chrome or black, for my vl it would have to be chrome don't you just love it!

Sadly they ain't cheap but it's a darn site better set-up than the external ones, warm hands and still having your fancy grips on makes them worth the pennies

Yes, they look like the dog's danglies! ]

Looking again at the Heat Demon heated grip system; does anyone know what the bar-end weights look like on the M800 internally? What I'm getting at is:

• • When you remove the bar-end weight does this give access to the handlebar interior so you can fit the heating element?; it would make life really easy if you didn't have to remove the grips!
  
  
  
  • Is there enough room for the heating element once the bar-end weights are re-installed?
  
  

Any tips/ideas? Thanks.

Very good point Grob, the M & C stock setup's are the same so I would say that you probably can't fit the Heat Demons with Stock grips due to the way the bar ends install.
If no one comes back with a definitive answer by the morning I will go out to my workshop and dig out my stock bar ends and check.

Mr Intruder wrote:

Very good point Grob, the M & C stock setup's are the same so I would say that you probably can't fit the Heat Demons with Stock grips due to the way the bar ends install.
If no one comes back with a definitive answer by the morning I will go out to my workshop and dig out my stock bar ends and check.

Thanks. If there isn't space I guess it would have to be the Oxford Cruiser Heated grips...... these have stainless steel ends on them (which it say can be removed so you can fit your bar end weights again). Just a shame if you can't keep your aftermarket grips!

ippikin wrote:

Just a shame if you can't keep your aftermarket grips!

No problem with the aftermarket grips, just a possible issue with the stock ones!

Mr Intruder wrote:

ippikin wrote:

Just a shame if you can't keep your aftermarket grips!

No problem with the aftermarket grips, just a possible issue with the stock ones!

Does that mean that your Kuryakyn grips do not have bar-end weights as such, Dave? Does this affect the handling at all? Do we need bar-end weights?

Mr I has got these on the end (not weights just Bling)



These grips have vibration damping so no need fo bar end weights

captain crash wrote:

Mr I has got these on the end (not weights just Bling)



These grips have vibration damping so no need fo bar end weights

Cheers Crash.

captain crash wrote:

These grips have vibration damping so no need fo bar end weights

That's interesting. I am looking to dump my bar end weights.

From my understanding of bar weights they are simply there to stop vibration but there are other options to get ride of this. One way is to buy grips like Mr I has with vibration damping, Mr I would be best placed to tell you how well they work

Other ways are to fill the bars with a substance such as silicon or even play sand, sounds strange but it does work.

I have just orders the ISO grips and thats what Im doing, the stock are of and the bling is going on.

ippikin wrote:

Does that mean that your Kuryakyn grips do not have bar-end weights as such, Dave? Does this affect the handling at all? Do we need bar-end weights?

Crash is spot on bar end weights are there simply for the purpose of reducing vibration & have no other impact on handling. The grips that I use have contact with the bars via rubber only so there is no vibration transferred from the bars to my hands that I can notice. The bar ends I have installed are purely cosmetic and weigh next to nothing. This in turn means that they leave the bar ends empty and will readily except the internal heated bar elements, these elements will not install with the stock bar ends installed!

Here is my setup & for anyone that is wondering what the extra bit in the first pic is, thats a throttle boss!

I guess that leaves 2 options:

1. Buy the Heat Devils warmers and fit Kuryakyn grips (or ideal for those of you that already have them).... but extra expense for those of us who don't........ or
   
   2. Fit the Oxford Cruiser heated grips, cut the steel end covers off and refit the bar-end weights (or don't bother with the bar end weights at all.....as the fancy takes you)

Hmm..... how much are the Kuryakyn grips?

Thanks for the help guys.... getting my head round this now!

ippikin wrote:

Hmm..... how much are the Kuryakyn grips?

The setup I have is not cheap but I was happy with it. The problem is as you say I already have it setup and only need to add the demons, where as you are starting off with the stock setup
£13.40 - Kuryakyn Throttle Boss
£33.10 - Kuryakyn Stiletto End Caps
£54.68 - KuryakynGrips with Chrome Accent Rings
£90.92 with discount
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