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I bought the Maplin heated gloves yesterday and I really like them! Rode home last night and back in this morning with full feeling in my fingers, without liners or anything. I expected my hands to feel really hot but it’s just a nice temperature. Good for this sort of cold but you’d need more below -5 or so, I reckon. And a proper bargain at £12.
There are a couple of downsides: you can feel the heating element in the palm of your hand, but I think I just have delicate hands (ha!) and it could be solved by some padding or a thin pair of gloves underneath; I bought a medium and they seem pretty big, I don’t think I’d be able to do anything particularly dextrous like change gear or find my work security pass in my pocket (as proven this morning); and the long sleeves make putting them on difficult if you insist on wearing them with a huge down jacket, as I did.
If anyone would like to try them out then let me know, I’m more than happy to share the warmth.
I also bought the heated insoles but haven’t had a chance to try them out yet as I need to make them smaller – the only size they had was 6-12 and I have little midget feet. If I don’t think I can cut them small enough to fit my feet without damaging the elements then I’ll pass them on to someone with more normal sized feet...