This a  funny topic.I laugh a lot.

Even the Blackwatch would wear heated gloves here. Gets damn cold and you definitely need warm hands to operate the bike as the drivers are garbage and so insulated in their warm cacoons that whether they drive over the top of a roo or a motorcycle rider, doesn’t matter.

I put the HD heated grips on my Street Glide - the black rubber ones, easy install and get warm pretty quick. Expecting to give them a decent work out later in the year.

Done a few rides before in combined snow and rain, even just really cold mornings out Singleton way and could hardly move, let alone feel my hands, so far very happy. I too don't like wearing thick gloves and did consider the heated gloves, just preferred the integrated set up of the factory grips - most don't even know they're heated.

DocGreen

cant see the big deal, you have heated gloves or grips or you don't

the wife's Tricycle come standard with heated grips and they are great on that long cold trip, I don't have heated grips so I have a couple different types of gloves.

I got caught having just my leather gloves riding home one winter night from Kimba, half hour into the ride, I had to stop and warm the hands on the top of the motor, the wife gave me here thermal gloves for the rest of the trip home (1 Hour) and she wore cotton gloves with her heated grips comfortable all the way home. 

I don't often ride if the weather is that bad, I have a perfectly good car for that

Fucked a few gloves up though.

- heated gloves will keep your hands warmer including the all-important finger tips. My heated gloves are insulated so do OK cutting wind chill. Worked well one time at 120km/hr on a Canadian freeway at -3. My gloves last 4hrs at high heat and 6-7 at variable heat settings. I do not think most heated gloves not connected by cables to your bloody bike or jacket will last more than 4hrs at high settings, so if you want heated gloves for a full day ride at max toast good luck!

- my heated grips do not get so hot that without gloves you cannot touch them. It’s the type of grip that determines the heat transfer. I’ve got thick grips. The heated grips help make most chilly days with normal gloves a lot better on the hands and fingers. As those of us who have ridden in cold - not just chilly - weather know, cold fingers are a hazard. People can go all brevado about sucking it up princess all they like but cold fingers are cold fingers and can be a hazard. Heated grips are always there. When you didn’t think it would be so cold. When the battery dies in the gloves. When it is so cold you want both. When it is just chilly and that little extra warmth is nice. 

- little mentioned fact: gloves better for finger tips, but grips warm the palms directly and that heat transfers up the forearm. I once rode through the White Mountains are of New Hampshire (USA) on my FXR, and also did the Swiss Alps on a BMW, and there were times in the 0 to 5c range where I felt the heated grips transferred more heat into the bones of my forearms. Subjective experience and YMMV. 

Minus 2 between the Blue Duck Pub and Mitta Mitta, I had heated grips and heated seat full bore but still didn't defrost the road. 

P.S this photo was around 11am, we had left the Ensay Hotel around 07:30 Temp minus 6. 

Ridden to work here at as low as -7 and thats before the wind chill factor, rode through fog at that temperature and came out covered in ice including my visor thick enough it wouldn't wipe off, thankfully commuting to anywhere here is only 40 min max in the early morning but still long enough to cause numb fingers and serious pain in the digits, can't be good for them.