Guys,

This is how I installed heated grips on my SuperDuke R.

First, find the ACC1 cables behind your headlight. That's where you'll connect up to. Check that your grips don't exceed 10A. Mine did below 2A when I measured, no sweat.


Get rid of your normal grips. I used a steel bar to pry them off. You can use compressed air (someone here mentioned it, thanks) or you can cut them off if needed.


Test fit them. Mine were longer than the ones I took off.


I cut off the little lip on the throttle sliderthingy.


I also made the "stopper" smaller so it fitted into the recess of the heated grip.


This is how much I had to cut off the heated grips. I "sanded" the ends down with my dremel and a sanding drum (I cut one twice to be careful).


LHS test fitted.


Throttle rollerthingy. Note the low edge on the stopper.


RHS grip fitted.


I had to change the connectors from the round ones to spade ones. Easy peasy.


Time to connect it all up


Something like this:

Zipties galore!

Then I tried it with my battery charger

All OK...

Time to plug it in:


Left hand side finished:


Right hand side finished:


Throttle side cabling:


Things to remember:
- Make sure you can move your bars to the right and to the left. To the stops. Nothing should be touching.
- Make extra super special sure than the throttle side doesn't stick and that it returns to idle. Try it at least 10 times. With bars to the right and to the left.
- Make sure that the bulging part on the grips where the cable goes into them doesn't interfere with the clutch and brake levers. The brake-side doesn't have to clear the brake lever at full throttle (you never need that much trhottle to do a burnout! and the brake lever shouldn't come that close to the bar anyway)
IMO, these grips have the cable routed the wrong way (backwards when it should point forwards).

There might be a few more pics here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/the.joxor/K ... eatedGrips
(can't remember if I posted all of them).

Hope that's of any use to someone.

never tried heated grips, do they keep your hands warm?
I went out for a ride today, +3 after an hour my finger tips were numb, thats with a good pair of winter gloves.
Would heated grips stop my fingers going numb?

Cheers

Craig

Cheers, jawk. Good tip! Thanks!

Nice work - do you have a choice of grips? Those don't look very soft & sticky. But it looks like you're stuck with that grip, because of the design.
Is it not possible to add the KTM heated grips to the SDR?
I had an '02 R150R, and the heated grips were magically warm in sub freezing weather. Too bad BMW doesn't make them as an accessory.

I can tell my heated grips were a blessing today, could have been a bit hotter though.

Bar ends are R&G:
http://www.rg-racing.com/browseBike/KTM ... 022BK.aspx

Just finished installing my new Oxford heated grips, turned them on... nothing. No LED, no warmth, no joy. Checking my work revealed a mistake: I made the total bonehead error of reversing the power and ground connections at the accessory leads. When I cut the ring terminals off the heater control module to replace them with blades for the accessory connectors, I no longer had a big red cue to remind me which was positive. The in-line fuse holder should have still served as an obvious indication, but - if memory serves - I got distracted by something dropping during the process and must have mixed up the wires in my hand while looking elsewhere. Still, I should have double-checked before turning everything on, but it was all so simple - what could need checking?? (famous last words)

Now, with the connections corrected, I still get nothing. I hoped that was because the voltage wasn't quite high enough, as these have an automatic cut-off under 11.5v. Checked the available voltage with engine off and it was 11.9v. I started the engine, let it warm up, gave it some revs to make sure all the electrons were flowing, but still nothing from the grips - not even the briefly flashing LED on their controller that's supposed to indicate inadequate voltage. I guess I destroyed the heater module by reversing the polarity, but I don't know if that would actually do such damage. I've also read about a fair number of these modules that don't work properly without any help from a dullard like myself. Can anyone tell me if my error would have cooked the module?

Many thanks for your expert input, and please don't mention this to anyone else.

I am voting for absolutely not, on the screwed them up possibilty. First off the electricity doesnt give a shit which way it goes on a resistance circuit. motors care heat coils dont.
I would stick a voltage tester on that acc circuit.
You havent screwed anything up. I will say it would have been good to check them prior to install.
Stick a screwdriver accross both battery leads touching the negative first to the positive and then place the positive to the negative. you will screw it up just as well going either way. Go back to square one you will get it toasty in no time.

Thanks for the vote in my favor! However, it's not the grips that I think I may have damaged -- it's the black box that contains the voltage sensor (for the automatic shut-off circuit) and the electronics that govern the amount of power fed to the grips, based on the control switch setting. These seem likely to be less resilient than the resistance-based heating elements embedded in the grips. Voltage testing at the ACC wires confirms the expected current. It certainly would have been good to have tried the whole system hooked up to a spare battery off the bike before I started the installation. Next time...