I recently bought a 2022 850 V7 Special. To my surprise I discovered it has heated grips! I only discovered this when I accidentally switched them on and found my fingers toasting.
There is a very discreet button on the left-hand grip and a small light close by it that glows when the grip is on. It appears to have several settings.
I believe that the previous owner may have ordered it as a factory accessory from new.
Hope thus helps as I’m a numpty with electronics.
Cheers,
Steve
Hi Steve . Thanks very much for your reply. That’s really very interesting and encouraging. Would you be able to take a photo of each handgrip and pot them here so I can see what the grips look like? I’m just wondering if they are a standard Moto Guzzi accessory or an after-market set, such as the Oxford Pro.
The photo below is the Moto Guzzi set but I’ve only seen them advertised for the 85TT bike:
Hi T, rest easy the V7 850 will cope easily with heated grips. I fitted Oxford grips to mine 3 days after buying it (inDecember) and have used them many times for long and short journeys and have had no problembs at all.
Thanks Jimimech
Hi Tony,
Sorry for the delayed response. Below is a couple of pictures of the grips. The writing on them says ‘Daytona’.
They are very discreet and VERY effective (as I discover when I accidentally hit the button on the left-hand grip.
Kind regards,
Steve
Thanks Steve. They do look very nice and blend in well. I’ll have a hunt around the internet to see if I can find them.
All the best
Regards
Tony
I just had a quick shufty and found this site Bikermart: Daytona 22mm 4 Level Heated Handlebar Grips with Integral Control, heated grips
Good luck!
Thanks Steve 
I have no special technical knowledge or skill and therefore I assume a direct connection to the battery will not cause any canbus issues. If it does then maybe someone on here will let me know in the useual way. Thanks.
I have not yet fitted heatd grips but I have a powered sat nav brackets.
2 options
1/. On my STONE - Under the seat there is socket with a dummy outlet. The outlet is switched through the ignition. I bought a plug ( about £1 on ebay) for the socket and wired that to a relay and connected the relay to the battery and through that fed the power supply to the mini transformer powering the sat nav.
I Could power hotgrips through the same relay. Oxford hot grips have never let me down. However using the above kit I know the grips will power off when the ignition is off.
2/. On my SPECIAL - I have an optimate battery tender lead connected to the battery under the seat. With the appropriate connector it can supply a Hot grips connector. ( it already supplies power to a sat nav bracket) I will never need to have hot grips and a battery on charge at the same time. If you use this method you must check the POLARITY of the connection as it is easy to get it reversed. Also, if you leave the grips switched on, this does rely on the Oxford Hot grips powering down as the battery voltage drops.
Hi Brockett. I’ve fitted Oxford Pro hot grips to my 2022 V7 Special. I’ve connected them directly to the battery (via a fuse in th positive line). They work well and don’t cause any problems to the Canbus system. I’ve also got a battery state monitor hooked up to the switched supply plug under the seat and even with the grips on, the battery doesn’t suffer any voltage drop ( when the engine is running). Hope that helps.
Tony
Hi,
I realise that this is an old thread but I thought that I’d add my experience of recently adding Oxford EVO Touring heated grips to a V7 850, as I see that there are still some folks with questions.
I was a bit unsure when I ordered these, as I read somewhere that the length for the V7 850 was 123mm, whereas the Oxford grips are 120mm. However, I can confirm that the Oxford grips fit perfectly and, as measured with a pair of calipers, the original Guzzi ones are also 120mm in length and also 22mm diameter. The Oxford ones are just as grippy and the new pattern doesn’t seem any worse than the originals.
I wired them straight to the battery, as recommended by the mechanic at Via Moto, as they have a low battery cut out.
I wired these in two weeks ago and the bike had been sat there for two weeks without running due to the adverse weather. I wondered if the grips’ wiring had indeed protected the battery or not.
So today I put the key in, hit the start button and … nothing! No activity at all from the starter motor, even though the instrument cluster was lit up. And that was my clue; starter button malfunction. Then I remembered that I’d washed the bike after I’d last used it and that it’s been very damp and freezing since then, with lots of rain and snow.
So, a couple of squirts of some contact cleaner down the side of the starter button, wait a minute and … hey presto, she fired up on the first press.
I have ridden the bike for 120 miles today in sunny but cold weather (5 - 9c) and I had toasty mits just using the lowest setting. In fact, I couldn’t tolerate anything higher through my Richa winter gloves.
Well worth the effort.
Just one question though; how have folks arranged the surplus wiring length? I can’t seem to find a layout that doesn’t look somewhat untidy.
Hi. I fitted the Oxford Pro grips to my 2022 V7 Special. I cable tied the grips’ cables to the control cables so they don’t hang around and looped the excess cable (which wasn’t very much) up under the petrol tank and fastened it under there with cable ties.
Regards
Tony
Out of sight, out of mind. Yes, that may well be the way to go. Thanks for the tip.
It’s come up before, that the starter button has a coil spring, and that this spring could go coil-bound before the contacts touch. Fortunately it’s not difficult to take the housing apart.
Nowadays my standard procedure is flick the kill switch and press the button a few times before I actually turn the key on, to ‘clean’ the contacts.
