The Symtec heated grips come with a heating element for the clutch side that has more heating wires than the throttle side. You don't need 2 sets of grips. Clutch side does warm a bit slower than the throttle side. I have steel bars. Might be different (worse) with aluminum bars.
Jeff
Colorado
--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, Cole Howell <wicoho67@...> wrote:
>
> My Dual-Star heated grips came with a thick piece of heat-shrink tube for
> the left grip. This allows the same level of insulation from the bar as the
> right grip. Only draw back is you need two right side grips due to the
> added diameter of the left tube.
>
> Cheers,
> Cole
> ST2
> On Oct 25, 2011 6:02 PM, "Jan Wysocki" <st@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > David Evans, on Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:35:47PM +0100 you wrote:
> > >
> > > you have to take the fairing off even to change your mind!
> >
> > Well that reminds me:
> > I've now owned my ST for a year and a half. I've taken all or part of
> > the fairing off, many times. However, it was only last weekend that I
> > realised that you don't have to remove the screen before removing the
> > upper fairing, or more to the point, replace the screen when the fairing
> > is back on the bike! This may seem completely obvious to the rest of
> > you, but I thought I'd point it out in case there are any other dummies
> > like me!
> >
> > Anyway, I'm now liberated from that unnecessarily fiddly task! I had the
> > upper fairing off twice at the weekend* and it was only the second time
> > that I realised that I could attach the screen to the upper fairing before
> > putting the upper fairing on the bike.
> >
> > Now I've calmed down, I'll also mention that I've replaced the screen,
> > which I recently snapped, with a cheapo Hong Kong import. So cheap, I'll
> > probably buy another just in case. A fLeabay trader called usdeur2000
> > (see item 170537369047) sells them for GBP 19.50 including postage to
> > the UK. That's about USD 31. He's fairly laid back about the packaging:
> > a polythene bag inside an envelope, but replaced the one that arrived
> > snapped very quickly. His screen holes don't align exactly with the
> > original, but using my new method of assembling the top fairing and screen
> > before fitting, made it easy to tweak the alignment. I've fitted a
> > clear acrylic (Perspex/Lucite) screen, which I prefer to the previous
> > tinted screen. usdeur2000 also sells light, dark and blue tinted screens.
> >
> > I also needed to finish the edge of the screen and discovered that the
> > Halfords chain sell screen edging. Brute force and a heat gun made it
> > fit the sharp curves at the sides!
> >
> > *I was following the wiring to discover why my heated grips weren't
> > working.
> > It's getting chilly! Which reminds me,
> > those of you who use heated grips will probably be familiar with the way
> > the right grip is always hotter than the left grip. This is particularly
> > pronounced on my ST. (It's because the left grip sits directly on the
> > handlebar's metal, whereas the right grip sits on the plastic twist grip
> > and so transfers far less heat to the handlebar.)
> >
> > So my question is: does anyone know of heated grips which compensate
> > for this by having individual heat settings, or just have higher power
> > on the left hand side?
> >
> > --
> > Jan
> > On the road:'03 ST4s ABS (since April 2010), '99 M900 (since new)
> > Languishing: 'Guzzi V50 III & that legend of unreliability: a Lario!
> > and now, for Really Bad(TM) winter days, a Fiat Panda!
> > Norwich, UK
> >
> >
>
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