how do you get your grips to stay on?

[pernikm]

Ok, spomey, I am on the case. The adhesion experts at work clearly recommend two part epoxies. There are problems with this. Although they are stable with temperature they pose their own problems. Sometimes we want to remove the grips without destroying the heating element. Also, two parts are often stiff and that is like a stress concentration. It drives the stress to the interface. We might be able to adjust the moduls to distribut stress evenly.

But first...let me analyse materials. I will take a paint scrapings from the bars and I have a set of ODI grips I can sample. Spomey, if you can take a clip of plastic on that broken heater elemnt that you have I can analyse it. we will go from there.

Anyone. If anyone has an idea of the maximum temperatures involved that would help. Not the temperature of the grip surface, that will be too cold, but at the bar metal under the rubber.

we can get a really smart bunch of nerds working on this....

thanx

 

[Coldfinger]

I read a lot of opinions a few months ago before I removed my Cat grip to replace a bad element.

- it appears some glues/adhesives/hairsprays/etc don't like heat and/or water so they can actually become slippery under the grip.

- I didn't want to use the more permanent methods because if I tear a $7 grip I don't want to also have to replace a $38 element, not to mention possibly having to grind it off.

- Though I did not read where anyone had any issues - I was leary of using any substance which could possibly damage the heating element cover or circuitry.

- The Ski-doo brand aftermarket grips I bought about 8 years ago included instructions to just rinse the inside of the grip with rubbing alcohol and slide them on. That worked just fine.

- On my 2004 cat grip, I removed it by using air pressure from the opposite grip. It showed no real signs of any adhesive, on the grip or bar. After installing a new element, I reinstalled the same grip using compressed air. It showed no signs of movement after 3 days of riding so it seems good enough to me. If it does happen to move, then it is easily removable and I can apply something at that time. I imagine a new grip, which I had on hand just in case I had to cut the old one off, would fit even tighter because it wouldn't be as stretched out/formed as the old one.

 

[m_beeson]

Try pissing on your bars before you put the grip on.

Slick as snot going on and when your piss dry's it is like glue!


Seen a buddy do this.

But you have to eat asparagus a couple of hours before.

 

[tomx]

Motosport has Safety Wire + Pliers on sale, $16