Heating grips the home-made way.

[yambabe]

Imagine you have just purchased a very cheap motorcycle to see you through the winter. With a minimum of effort it's passed an MOT and you are in the process of giving it a nice coat of spray-can black to hide all the mis-matched panels. So far so good.

Now obviously as this is your winter hack you need it to help keep you warm, so bar muffs are essential. No prob, you have a set of home-made ones that will fit on nicely. But you can't help feeling that it is still lacking something......... so what do you do?

Well you could try this!

1) Put a piece of plastic pipe on top of the engine block where there is a convenient little scoopy bit.

https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a229/Yambabe/BILD0527.jpg

2) Run said piece of pipe alongside frame and up inside fairing, securing with cable ties.

https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a229/Yambabe/BILD0524.jpg

3) Affix wax-coated sheepskin mitts (which still, to my joy, carry a label stating "this is a luxury garment"! ) to handlebars, and run end of pipe into them.

https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a229/Yambabe/BILD0525.jpg

4) Repeat on other side.

https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a229/Yambabe/BILD0526.jpg

5) Admire finished look!

https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a229/Yambabe/BILD0528.jpg

6) Take for a quick scoot round the block as bike still not taxed and discover that as you hoped warm air is indeed being blown into the furry muffs so the further and faster you go the hotter your hands get!

7) Check out your partner's Zephyr to see if you could do the same fix to that and discover that you can't cos there is no handy scoopy bit anywhere on the head.

8 ) Look smug. (Git! lol) Then start talking about fixing a pc fan to said partner's bike to blow the air into pipes, sometimes I really worry about him.............
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[adilxs]

carry a few fire extingusers with u will ya

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Bah, out of karma. Nice bit of bodgery there

How about running another pipe to under the seat?
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[ms51ves3]

I thought you were a fair weather biker

[yambabe]

Not my bike Chives I have my own set of beaver-skin furry muffs though and today after a quick run out I acquired an almost-matching cat-skin seat warmer!

https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a229/Yambabe/BILD0520.jpg
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[iooi]

Only a Divvy would that be


Why not put the scoop behind the oil filter, once running it should pick up enough heat to keep the chill at bay.
Add on one of the tools from a old vac and it would be even better

Not such a daft idea, lets face it how often on a cold day when stopped at lights do you move your hands down to the cylinders to warm the gloves up.
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[Mudskipper]

Rat-tastic!!!
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[Charlie]

If the bike has a radiator put the piping behind that... I guess it would have a similar effect?
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[yambabe]

He's been eyeing my not-water-cooled and no-scoopy-bits engine up and muttering about computer fans, I am scared..........
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[virus]

Ive been thinking About doing this on the deathtrap for a while now, I might give it a go tomorrow.

Nice work.


Cheers
John
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stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[KLR600]

That's a great idea but would the pipe not melt? Maybe a metal one would be better, like those tubes that are connected to showers?
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[Peirre oBollox]

Stick a set of THESE inside the muffs, they`ll be toasty then
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[moog]

That is fucking awesome


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It is ironic that we spend a lot of time trying to keep our engines cool and ourselves warm.
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[steppen22]

I'm ambiguous.

It's the lamest looking mod I've seen in a while.

And yet, I can't help but admire your inventiveness. I thought I was clever for putting woolly gloves over leathers, but you're in a different league.
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