Nick
Actually, Hippo Hands are a brand name of a product designed by Craig Vetter, of Vetter Fairing fame. His first shop was in an old house in Champaign, IL before he moved to Rantoul, IL. Check out his site:
http://www.craigvetter.com/pages/Motorcycle_Designs/Hippo-Hands-pages/Hippo-Hands-Main-page.html
He raced a modified Bridgestone 350 back in the day, and so I had him cut down the rotary valves on mine. That was a neat bike, but suffered from too many serious manufacturing problems.
Sandy Thompson
--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, Jan Wysocki <st@...> wrote:
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> *I see that Baglux are now UK only. (But surely they used to be French?)
> Other makes exist, but the Baglux muffs are the best I've ever used. -- Jan
I use the Oxford Sports muffs (Sports? Shum mishtake there shurely?..) on my Honda NTV, and they've been giving good service for years of winter riding. It helps that the mirror upstands provide support, and a few zip-ties keep things in place. Mind you, my hands are very sensitive to cold and still go numb inside them if I don't have my superb Klan heated gloves hooked up. The weird thing is that, without any visible control system, those gloves just keep my hands comfortable and never get noticeably warm. It's as if the elements have a self-limiting capability that the makers never mentioned.
By the way, Ben B tells me handlebar muffs are called Hippo Hands in the US!
NickW, UK
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