I’ve had a gerbing jacket for nearly 3 years now. Never had any issues. I do wear a thin long sleeve baselayer underneath (proskins)Hi all, i've been thinking about some heated gear for a while now i've got Gerbing Gloves and there
spot on,so i'm now thinking jacket,so i read this post with real interest,then i watched Teapot latest
little ride around Britain, and he mentioned Gerbing with a few added photos (26:08) mins in on the vid,
The photos show a couple of nasty burn marks on his back and arm,from the Gerbing heated jacket,i wondered
if anyone on here suffered the same
Cheers Baza
Keis Or Gerbing?
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Thanks for your replies fella's,how much d’you reckon a secondhand Gerbing jacket with controller would be worth 
Cheers Baza
Cheers Baza
I had Gerbing, wore it a couple of times but found it extremely uncomfortable. I was hoping it would be more akin to the BMW heated waistcoat in terms of thickness. Next time I’ll likely go for a heated base layer. TeapotOne swears by Keis but take a look at Warm and Safe from motolegends.
WnS are good BUT the next to skin they do has no panel on the stomach area so expect a cold draft.
Stupid omission as the heat generated by the rest of it makes it very noticeable and uncomfortable.
Their jacket however has a panel either side in that area. Go figure.
Whatever you do - try them on with your existing kit you plan on using.
KEIs for example on the older jackets couldn’t be used with Rukka’s Goretex Pro stretch cuffs due to the knitted cuff they insisted on stitching in. Ridiculously bulky and meant pressure points and enough extra thickness that you couldn’t get glove cuffs underneath the Rukka cuff.
Garbing were similar.
Look for one that has no cuff.
Stupid omission as the heat generated by the rest of it makes it very noticeable and uncomfortable.
Their jacket however has a panel either side in that area. Go figure.
Whatever you do - try them on with your existing kit you plan on using.
KEIs for example on the older jackets couldn’t be used with Rukka’s Goretex Pro stretch cuffs due to the knitted cuff they insisted on stitching in. Ridiculously bulky and meant pressure points and enough extra thickness that you couldn’t get glove cuffs underneath the Rukka cuff.
Garbing were similar.
Look for one that has no cuff.
I have the Gerbing micro heated jacket and wear a Rukka Jacket, the cuffs on the heated jacket are bulky, but I can get them under the Rukka cuffs. As the Rukka cuffs are quite long, sometimes I just let the Gerbing jacket stop before the cuffs. Anyway its workable and better than being cold
I found my Gerbing jacket a little uncomfortable around where the wires were routed. But I then discovered you can get to the wires from a zip on the inside and with a bit of tape you can route them more sensibly and together, since a little fiddling the jacket is fine now. I find the gloves a real pain, not sure if it is just me, but the velcro on the straps seem too short, so I can't tighten the gloves enough, and the buttons on the cuffs are a pain when trying to do the zips up on the Rukka jacket. I need to get my needle out and rearrange the velcro. Guess heated gear companies are not glove manufacturers. I can see that is where heated inners win out.
Mrs Hann wanted a little bimble on the bike yesterday so i picked her up from work and took a ~40 mile ride home.
I packed all her riding gear on the GS including my home-made heated jacket i made for her as it was 4 - 5 degrees which can feel cold on a late,dull Febuary afternoon.
I asked her whether she was warm enough when we got home and she said she was boiling, how often can you say you`re too warm when riding a motor bicycle in the winter..!
I had my own (home-made again) heated jacket, heated insoles, handlebar grips and seat. I only get cold when i stop...
I packed all her riding gear on the GS including my home-made heated jacket i made for her as it was 4 - 5 degrees which can feel cold on a late,dull Febuary afternoon.
I asked her whether she was warm enough when we got home and she said she was boiling, how often can you say you`re too warm when riding a motor bicycle in the winter..!
I had my own (home-made again) heated jacket, heated insoles, handlebar grips and seat. I only get cold when i stop...
I have a keis jacket and inner gloves with a stand-alone Bluetooth push button controller that sits on the top yoke (it’s no longer available sadly). I can honestly say that it has transformed my cold weather/wet weather/nighttime riding. It’s just lovely. I generally have it on a medium setting with a thin Baselayer and my Klim goretex gear on top. If it’s really cold or blowy I will sometimes put a thin fleece on top of the keis jacket so it squashes closer to my body. I’ve never used it on full heat because it’s too hot after 10 minutes or so. I can’t recommend it enough
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