So lately I've found myself hatin on lock-on grips and reverting back to the traditional. It's been 20 years since I've used squishy grips, but still remembered them sliding up, sliding down, throttling, etc. So I dug into my car racing/rockcrawling history and all the little rubber-on-steel tricks. Tire sealant. NOT tire CEMENT! It's a gooey, messy black ooze that you apply with a brush to steel rims. Keeps the tire from rotating on the bead, cures small bleeders, yet doesn't "permanantly" attach the tire. So I tried it on my grips, wait 3 minutes and it worked AWESOME. The cool thing about it is that it doesn't "glue" the grip on, so nothing to scrape/gring off the bars later, and you don't have to cut the grips off either, the air hose trick still works, however found that you have to actually WATCH what you're doing with cheap grips as they WILL inflate like a dead cat in a river before all of the sealant releases! Grip comes off and you just wipe the bar down with alcohol, and reapply!
NOTE: Don't be a slob with it, though, it WILL remove paint!
Like I said, it's been 20 some years since I've used these, so this is prob already a standard, played-out method and I'm a dumbass. I can deal with it!
ALSO... what's THE hot grip these days??? Something thin and sticky!
NOTE: Don't be a slob with it, though, it WILL remove paint!
Like I said, it's been 20 some years since I've used these, so this is prob already a standard, played-out method and I'm a dumbass. I can deal with it!
ALSO... what's THE hot grip these days??? Something thin and sticky!