Is It All Coming Back to you Now, Bunky??!!
Electric Clothing Vendors
Is
It All Coming Back to you Now, Bunky??!!
Daryl's Heated Vest is constructed using the newest technology in heated
clothing, a fabric called Gorix, and made by At-Last. Gorix fabric is a
carbon-fiber electrically conductive fabric. It looks very much like black
fiberglass, but each strand is electrically conductive. A hole punched in
a heating element made of Gorix won't kill the heating element, the current
simply flows around the damage. Since the current flows from the top of
the heating element to the bottom, the only way to destroy an element would be
to cut it in half, opening the circuit.
Three manufactures currently use Gorix in their products: At-Last and Gorix Co. They both make vests. At-Last is the minimalist version (front and back panels attached by velcro). Gorix.co (limited prices & no pictures) lists jackets, vests, underclothing, full suit with gloves and hand muffs, but I'm not sure you can actually order anything from them.
www.exo2.co.uk
www.4atlast.com
http://www.gorix.co.uk/acatalog/
The rest of the heated clothing manufacturers use
heated wire
technology.
Chilli
makes a vest.
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/chilli/index.htm
Aerostich
has a vest and a liner.
http://www.aerostich.com/riderwearhouse.filereader?943489104+EN/catalogs/1025
BMW
and HD make a vest (but the HD site was hard to get to, so the heck with them).
http://www.motorcycle-store.com/bmw/riderswear.html
Kreamer
makes a vest, heated glove liners, heated boot soles and lots of other stuff.
http://kreamersports.com/
Gerbing
makes a full line of heated clothing including gloves (or they will wire your
own gloves for $79) and socks.
http://www.gerbing.com/
Widder
makes a line of heated clothing that includes a vest with arm chaps and leg
chaps.
http://www.widder.com/
Links to Battery Operated
Everything
http://www.tgoemall.com/mallbodywarm.htm
Extreme Comfort makes battery
operated boot heaters and glove liners
http://www.electrichandwarmers.com/index.html
Giali makes jackets,
waistcoats, vests, harness, gloves, socks, trousers, grip covers
http://www.motorcycle-uk.com/giali/Gialiheatedclothing.html
Body Warmer makes a truly
bizarre total body heat strip
http://www.commercemarketplace.com/estore/bodywarmer/systems.html
Kustom Komfort makes DYI
heating systems for clothing
http://www.kustomkomfort.com
Internet BMW Riders
instructions for making your own heated clothing
http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/heatedclothing.html
If you find yourself in Italy
contact
www.klansrl.com
If you find yourself in New
Zealand contact
www.baehrintercoms.com
Good
Hunting
(If you know of other
Manufacturers of Heated Motorcycle clothing,
drop
me a line and I'll add them to the list.)
