FUllproof measure to keep grips on?

[Jeff C]

Grips come of easy when I turn on the heat on the handle bars.

It has been so long since I put them on, but I think I remember using hair spray on the bars, then slipping the grips on.

What do you use to install the grips so they do not come loose?





Someone, throw me a freaking bone heeeere (In my best Dr. Evil voice)

 

[Gilly]

hairspray works. maybe try some oil
I use this stuff lately.

 

[minet]

i use bar ends from moose racing

 

[mountainbigbull]

I had a go around with a grip last year tried all kinds of stuff. What worked for me in the end was JB weld. Heated grips won't break that crap loose.

 

[summitone]

Spray paint. I've done it w/ ATV's and Sleds, they never come off.

Clean the bars REAL GOOD, spray both the bars and the inside of the grips. Get them on quick!

(don't forget to cover up your sled before you paint!!!)

 

[Borderstaff]

I have 1 small rivet in each bar on the grip side nearest to the center about 1/2" in - haven't had a problem since.

 

[vmaxfrank]

Slow set epoxy. Handles the widest range of temperatures. Instructions on hot grips recommend this. You will need a heat gun if you ever want to remove them and will probably ruin the grips removing them.

 

[Adrenaline Revolution]

All I ever use is the wife's hairspray.
The grips just slide on with no real effort and once the alcohol in the propellant evaporates, it sticks the grips to the bars like glue but will come off if you want to remove them later with a little work.
Paint? Wow, I wouldn't have thought of that. What a mess?

 

[TheClown]

spray paint works ok.

odigrips makes some that screw/lock on. Look under watercraft.

 

[eddy]

Grips

Any epoxy will work great.

 

[Snowmark]

grips

i use jb weld too....good up to 300 degrees, never had one come off

 

[Dobber1]

Double sided tape and solvent.........just like golf grips.

 

[rynokron]

i've had good luck with three bond grip glue.

 

[johndeere8420]

I had a go around with a grip last year tried all kinds of stuff. What worked for me in the end was JB weld. Heated grips won't break that crap loose.

JB weld... the SLOW DRY kind.... HOWEVER, in the event your warmer takes a digger.. break out the box of Razor Blades, sand paper, and a BRAND NEW warmer, you're gonna need em'......

 

[funjunkie]

3m weather strip adhesive.

 

[MARCUSO]

I used spray paint on a pair of grips, and the solvents broke the rubber down and they fell apart.

Last time I put Epoxy on the grips and the warmers. lasted 4 years and still good. I had to remove the warmers, to change the bars, and took solvent to remove the sticky residue, then I cleaned it up with methyl hydrate and epoxied it on... 2 stages, first the warmers, then the grips.

2 face tape or rubber cements can creep, and wreck your warmers and you can have electrical problems.

Hair spray can let go if you get a little water under the grips. nothing worse than taking a jump and having only your grips without the bars in your hands.

 

[EricW]

In the Moto-X days we wired the grips with a fine stainless wire. I still have the self twisting pliers like they use on aircraft fasteners and the wire. Just put the ODI grips on new bars and hooks on a 07 Dragon. I used air to blow up the grip and slipped it on over the bar hooks and heat element. I figured I could wire it as long as I didnt get it so tight it cut the element circuits.

Anyone safety wired sled grips before? Thanks. EW

 

[Bull]

Marcuso is correct........DO NOT USE HAIRSPRAY. if you get moisture in there.......ZIP, they will pop off like they are greased. wish i had video of a steep, sidehill, must make climb i was doing as a newbie.......3/4 way up......off comes the uphill grip.....as my body spins around downhill.....off comes the downhill grip. i pulled my head out of the snow just in time to see my sled ghost riding down the hill into the trees.........all the while still holding a grip in each hand. funny looking back, since i didn't schmoke my sled. anyone tried lock on mountain bike grips?

 

[crashleroux]

Depends on how serious you need to get and what kind of grips you are using. Most Grips hairspray or 3M spray adhesive and then slide the grips on, but if you have this problem a lot, the sure fire way, and this is how we always kept on the really sticky grips we used on our race sleds than you can really grip and turn. Any tape, we used electrical, one wrap and then turn it over and wrap the grip with half the strips glue up. Makes them a B**ch to get on make sure you have a compressor when you do it. The only time the I would use expoy is the ski-doo grips with the heaters built in, makes to big of a mess.

GOOD LUCK.