Merlin Bednell CE2 D3O Heated Gloves - Black

These gloves are very well made and are really comfortable. The leather is nice and soft so doesn’t need breaking in like some gloves do. They are a little bulky due to the battery in cuff but not noticeable when riding.
The gloves are warm anyway but with the heater turned on they keep your hands from chilling. It’s not an intense heat at all and sometimes you barely feel the heat but that’s not the point of these gloves the heating element are on the back of the hands to remove the wind chill effect. Riding my z900rs in sub 5degC I had the gloves on full heat and the heated grips on. My hands were perfectly warm. The battery lasts about 4 hours on high to medium settings.
The touch sensitive finger isn’t right on the tip so you need to use the flat of your finger on touch screens but is fine once used to it. Overall, great gloves.

Everything about how the glove is made is great, the stitching heat retention leather quality and the fact it’s CE2 is awesome!

Only gripe is that the actual heating could be a lot hotter. The hottest setting won’t warm up your hand if it’s already cold. That said. The glove does hold heat really well so if you leave the house with warm hands and have it on max then you won’t get cold.

Would definitely recommend and hopefully with their next model they improve the heating.

I really needed some heated gloves to endure the near 0deg temperatures and this set is doing the job great.

Just don’t get them for the touch control compatible tips. As others have said, the index finger does not have a touch sensitive pad at the very tip, so really, it’s only your thumb that can do anything. That feature for me was a nice to have rather than a necessity so it doesn’t bother me. If I need to use my phone I rather stop at a safe place and take my glove off for a minute

Size: Small
TLDR: check wrist strap before purchase.

The gloves wrist strap is poorly engineered. For a tight seal there is no velcro, not even close. I have a below average wrist of 15.5cm in circumference, even if you had an average wrist of 17cm you wouldn't even get half the Velcro of the wrist. I wear alpinestar SP-Air as my summer glove also in small and i have full velcro wrist connection.
They are warm even at 5deg c, my fingers at the highest setting are very comfortable.
They are watertight, with many tests in the rain.
The electronic touch point is at the palm side of the finger rather than the point, very hard to navigate the phone considering how bulky the glove is. The stitching started to thread only a week in. (Only at the touchscreen finger fabric).