TECH TORQUE :RETAIN THE VALUE OF YOUR HAND GRIPS BY SLEEVING
Handgrips wear quickly when you ride off tar or through technical riding.
Don't wait for them to wear out. You can protect them now.
You can retain your bike's value or re-juvenate worn grips while protecting them.
By sleeving them in a genuine rubber grip.
CAUTION: your handgrips will be ±3mm bigger in diameter and it will take a few rides toget fully accustomed, afterwhich you may never remember how they were before.
Will the heating in the grip still perform?
Yes, as before, no difference.
Go over to your preferred sports shop and ask for the cricket bat section an choose yourself a new cricket bat hand grip sleeve.
This shop has close on 100 with a broad spectrum of choices.
Any colour, many patterns, personalise your bike.
Anne chose Yellow for her Yellow bike
You will need Scissors, a torx and a phillips screw driver
Using the existing handgrip, measure the length you need and cut the new sleeve to the same length.
Use the torx to remove the handle bar wieght and expose the hand grip
With the handgrip exposed, you can work the sleeve over it
Work the new sleeve over the end of the grip and start working it on.
Slip the phillips in between and keep twisting it around and around working the new sleeve fully over
Withdraw the screw driver and massage the new sleeve into an even spread and... viloa!!!
Repeat the operation doing the same on the right side.
Be sure to tighten up nicely and replace your wrist wrest.
Yellow bike, yellow grips
Looks cool and personalised.
This is not a new trick, it is a useful practical solution to extending the life of grips
Mr.Badger has padded hockey-stick tape wound onto his grips. It is cool blue, and the grip is grippy and soft and bigger - which suits me better.
The advantage of the cricket bat rubber is that it is thinner, so the heated elements work through it. I had to cut away most of the old grip before I put mine on.
Does this not void your warranty???
The answer is no.
Not if it was a dealer that does this as well.
As for the pink, it iwas tempting.
Annie's hand went this way and that before settling on yellow as her bike is yellow.
Myself, pink was an option as it makes the bike unmistakable, but then I do want anonomity so prefer to stay with the feather and hide amongst the crowd.
You might as well paint your whole bike pink. Went to pick someone up at the airport and on the second floor of the parking, in front of the lifts and security guard, was your bike. It had your jacket on the seat, and ostrich-feather helmet. Could not have been anybody else.
Curious that you would leave your stuff unsecured at the airport like that.
neat trick.
pity the tip came far too late for me to save my grips.
I purchased some grips form trac-mac for aobut 150.00 but they're shorter than the BMW ones.
Looks kinda weird but does the job.
You might as well paint your whole bike pink. Went to pick someone up at the airport and on the second floor of the parking, in front of the lifts and security guard, was your bike. It had your jacket on the seat, and ostrich-feather helmet. Could not have been anybody else.
Curious that you would leave your stuff unsecured at the airport like that.
That was probably my bike. Andy owns the spot on the first floor
Ek het myne laas jaar gedoen, om dit dikker te maak.
Wat wel vir my gewerk het: sny die regte lengte nuwe rubber (krieketkolf se rubber), gooi klomp babapoeier in sy keel af en trek die nuwe rubber oor die handgreep.
Wat belangrik is: LW! sodra die nuwe rubber mooi in plek is, rol die nuwe rubber van eenkant af halfpad terug en maak die poeier mooi weg (ek het spirits gebruik). Laat dit droog word en rol weer plat. Doen dan die ander helfte. As jy die poeier nie uithaal nie kan die nuwe rubber maklik skuif op die ou handgreep.
Met Andy se skroewedraaier metode kan jy die poeier ingooi waar die rubber oormekaar skuif.
Die rede hoekom ek my grepe dikker gemaak het :
Met die baie muis-werk by die kantoor het ek handpyne begin kry, wat erger was elke keer as ek GK ry. Ek het met dikker grepe ge-eksperimenteer en gevind my hand het nie meer seer geraak nie op die Fiets. Sedertdien het die pyne heeltemaal verdwyn.
Die verskil in dikte is eintlik bitter min --- beswaarlik voelbaar.
Ek het gehoor jy kan die rubber oorskuif met saamgepersde lug ---- Vir my het dit nie gewerk nie! (dit is veronderstel om so te werk: jy druk die een punt van die rubber oor die handgreep, blaas lug by die vry ent in en blaas die rubber so bietjie op. Dan skuif die nuwe rubber glo heel maklik oor) . . . vir my nie gewerk nie.
Ander ouens gooi petrol op die rubber en dit gly maklik op ---- ek dink dis 'n sleg idee omdat die petrol in die rubber oplos en die rubber mettertyd laat sleg word.
We have the cricket bat grips in stock and fit for 2L bottle of coke 
Now that's what i am talking about!!!!
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