Ekoi Heat Concept gloves review

Tired of cold fingers on your winter rides? The Ekoi Heat Concept gloves could help

Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Ekoi Heat Concept are heavy-duty winter gloves with a lot of padding and sophisticated palm grips. But their main trick is the built-in heating elements. These are effective and easy to control but are let down by the uncomfortable battery positioning.

Reasons to buy
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    Actively heat your hands

Reasons to avoid
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    Expensive

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    Batteries are uncomfortable

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    Bulky

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    Can’t use in the wet

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The Ekoi Heat Concept gloves include heating elements to keep your fingers warmer as you ride. Because they’re out in the wind and not moving much, fingers can be the first part of you to feel the cold in freezing conditions. Once your fingers get cold, in the worst case they may never warm up again for the rest of your ride. Riding with cold hands is miserable and potentially dangerous if you can’t operate your controls properly.

So a set of heated winter gloves is potentially a godsend. The heating elements in the Ekoi Heat Concept gloves are powered by two thin battery packs in each glove. These fit into a sleeve inside the underside of the gloves’s wrist, are held in place by a Velcro closure and have a cable with a small plug to connect them to the heating wires in the gloves.

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