Exo2 Stormguard Heated Gloves

[muddy]

I bought these of EBay for £70, down from a much higher original price. Now I know why. They seem to be well put together with mouldef leather knuckle shield and a long wide cuff that makes it not too hard to get them over my jacket sleeves. So far, so good. I bought a medium fit and though the fit isn't bad for the span of my hand the thumbs especially are eeay too long and sort of flop about.


To operate I wired the connector socket directly to the battery and let it protrude through the top of the seat near the tank. To connect with the Y wires provided you pull some rather thick wires down each sleeve and another hang out from inside your jacket ready for connection. The sheer length of that wire is overkill and actually dangerous, which I'll get to in a sec.


This is where it all gets annoying. So I walk out to my bike on these cold and frosty mornings, with a long length of wire dragging behind me, having tumbled out of my jacket pocket. Never mind. Start the bike and get on, ease the gloves and connect each glove, then connect the plug from the long length running from the back of my jacket to the socket sat on the tank and the first thought is 'the fit is way too loose'. Sure enough not 10 minutes into my journey and there's a wire flopping around dangerously close to the bike chain. The weight of the slack and the lose connections mean constant disconnects.


In operation the back of my right hand felt nice and warm, the left hand less so and my fingers were icey. Since your fingers are the first part of your hand to get cold why no elements to warm them? And I found that the heat was erratic, toasty warm for a mile or so, then barely a glow. The gloves felt cumbersome and because of the long thumbs it was hard to use the bike switches. Poor design.


So I have to give these gloves a massive thumbs down.