fastening hand grips

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tigerclaw
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fastening hand grips

Post by tigerclaw » Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:06 am

Hi. What do you guys use to fasten your grips. I don't want to use wire and a can't get hold of grip cement this weekend. epoxy glue or maybe silicone?
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by Drunkn Munky » Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:10 am

Hair spray, you can get grip glue but i still find hair spray easier and has never failed on me
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by krisztian_andre » Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:39 am

Degrease handlebars and grips and then pour rubbing alcohol on the bars and inside of grips and install them before it evaporates. It will be firmly fixed in a few hours time when all the alcohol evaporated.
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by lukemillar » Sun Nov 03, 2013 2:12 am

I'm with the Munky on this one. Hairspary is the way forth. Tried grip glue once and it was a nightmare so went back to (the wife's ;) ) hairspray!
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by Jarlly » Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:52 pm

I use a bit (!) of superglue.

I went mental once and had a horrible time trying to get the grips off later. So, don't go crazy with it. Never tried hairspray but have heard very good things about it too
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by tigerclaw » Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:31 pm

Thanks guys, hair spray I think it's going to be.... bike is almost done now :P
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by NGneer » Sun Nov 10, 2013 7:56 pm

In my formative Trials riding days, we would use any old spray paint laying around. A quick squirt into the new grip and slid it on and half an hour later you could be hanging off them without them EVER moving.

Never tried hairspray, but I guess it is the same in principle.
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by BB_158 » Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:18 pm

and use L'Oreal... cos your wurf it !!! :lol:
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by tigerclaw » Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:24 pm

:grin: because I had clear spray paint I decided to take that route but it started sticking before the grip was on, I started panicking that the grip was going to get stuck before it was in position and it would get damaged. So I removed it and decided the surgical spirit route but it was in my kids room and he was sleeping.... sooooooo..... tequila :grin: :grin: worked a treat, grips are nice and solid... Not sure the wife believed I was working on the bike though
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Re: fastening hand grips

Post by krisztian_andre » Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:40 pm

tigerclaw wrote::grin: because I had clear spray paint I decided to take that route but it started sticking before the grip was on, I started panicking that the grip was going to get stuck before it was in position and it would get damaged. So I removed it and decided the surgical spirit route but it was in my kids room and he was sleeping.... sooooooo..... tequila :grin: :grin: worked a treat, grips are nice and solid... Not sure the wife believed I was working on the bike though
Alcohol is the answer.
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