Hasta La Gadget!

It’s winter, and you’re on your bike. The snow is coming down, the wind is finding its way in through even the tiniest gaps in your clothing, and it is bitterly cold. Thanks to your heated handlebar grips, though, you hands and fingers remain soft and warm.

Then, the batteries fail, and the temperatures plunge as fast as the shrinking current. Your digits begin to ice up…

This is the nightmare scenario only possible if you spent $200 on a pair of A’ME Heated Grips, the bike equivalent of those heated hair-rollers. If only you’d thought to buy waterproof, thermal gloves instead, you might save your now frostbitten fingers.

The kit consists of a pair of temperature-controlled grips, adjustable to any of six heat settings, along with a battery pack (you’ll have to find somewhere to put this), the mounting system, cables and battery charger. Should you have more than one bike, you can just buy an extra pair of grips for $80.

These grips are for a mountain bike, although a set of heated wraps for drop bars is coming in September.

Of course, if you need heated grips, you’re almost certainly wearing gloves too, and there’s nothing less pleasant when riding a bike than frozen fingers. Yes, a good pair of gloves is fine, even in the coldest of Berlin winters. But if you’re up on a mountainside and the correct flick of a brake lever is the difference between staying on the bike and tumbling into a snowy crevasse, then warm, responsive fingers might be essential. Available now.

Heated bike grips [A’ME via Urban Velo]

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