Heated Motorcycle Gloves
Rechargeable battery pack or 12v powered heated motorcycle gloves.
Keep your hands warm and protected against the worst of the UK weather with a pair of the best heated motorcycle gloves.
Heated motorcycle gloves buying guide
Find the best heated motorbike gloves for winter warmth
Updated October 2025 by Mark Hopwood
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Riding a motorcycle in the depths of a typical UK winter is something that the majority of UK bikers choose to avoid. For those of us riding purely for pleasure a cold, dark, slimy ride out is possibly the last thing on our minds. Wrapping ourselves and the bike up until Spring is the order of the day for many.
But what if you can’t? Perhaps your bike is your only means of transport, or your commuting tool. Or maybe, just maybe, a dry and sunny winter Sunday manages to lure you back out on the roads for a quick blast.
There’s a lot of great heated motorcycle clothing on the market these days – from heated inner socks, to heated waistcoats and leggings. By a country mile however, the most popular item of heated motorcycle clothing is the humble glove.
There’s a very good reason for this. It’s relatively easy to keep your core warm with a good motorcycle jacket and layering – but not so easy to do the same on bodily extremities. You can buy a pair of the warmest and best insulated winter motorcycle gloves to stave off the worst of the cold, but the fact is that due to the high surface area to volume ratio of your hands as they face the full force of a 60mph windchill, keeping your hands properly warm can be a losing battle.
Of course, an increasing number of bikes now come with factory fitted heated grips. Heated grips are great, and can mitigate much of the chill by heating your palms. If you've got heated grips and hand guards, then your summer gloves might see their use extended by a good few weeks. Certainly, my Tracer 9 GT+ has heated grips and handguards as standard, which makes summer gloves fine (for me) down to around 10 degrees at sustained speed.
But when it gets really cold, your fingers will start to suffer first. That's when a pair of the best 12v motorcycle battery powered, or rechargeable heated motorcycle gloves can make all the difference in keeping you properly warm.
The best heated motorcycle gloves can keep your hands warm & dry even in extremely cold biking conditions.
If your hands start to get cold on a bike, the feeling can vary from uncomfortable to downright painful. Even at the “slight chill” end of the scale, your control of the bike will begin to be impaired. Combine this physical motor impairment with the mental distraction (and lack of concentration) caused by the cold, and you’re adding another unnecessary layer of risk to your (already somewhat riskier) winter ride.
This is where heated motorbike gloves come in. By combining a well-insulated, waterproof glove with electrically heated elements, heat loss from the glove is balanced by heat being generated internally. Riders who try heated motorcycle gloves for the first time typically keep electrified for life!