Well, I hadn't heard about the alternator so I went ahead and installed a set of Oxford Heaterz. I had them on a prior two wheeler and liked them. I've been using them a little on the Ryker and so far no problems. According to Oxford, the grips draw 3.6 amps on average; surely the alternator can han...

Surely someone has wired up some heat; where did you tie into the electrical or did you just wire them hot and rely on your memory to turn them off? I worry that my memory is not that good anymore!!

I've had my Ryker Rally since April, have just over 3000 miles on it. But I'm new to this forum, glad to find a forum just for US! I recently moved to Ruidoso Downs, NM from Bandera, TX and now call NM home. It is starting to cool off here now but until it snows, I'll be riding pretty much every day...