How to: install new grips.

Here's a short guide to how i installed mine, took me 5-10 minutes to install. :)

Excellent thread Shrike. However, could I just add this tip? As soon as you have fitted one grip, try the bar end on. The grip may have got a little distorted during the process and it will be easier to "adjust" it's position sooner rather than later, particularly with hair-spray. Thanks.

Forgot to mention that :fact :yesnod ;)

Cool, be doing that soon. Thanks guys!:hellobye

Very nicely done!!!! :yesnod

What type of soap should I use?

There is a problem though with using soapy water to put on new grips, if you get caught in the rain the likelihood of those grips starting to spin increases significantly. When I used to race mountain bikes I learned that the hard way, they come lose all of the time. I used to use hair spray or spray paint (if i really wasn't planning on taking them off). Either of those will allow them to go on easily and they both dry very tacky.

hairspray - super slippery when wet but dries like glue...still not impossible to get off when you want to though. XT777

Great post Shrike. One thing I would suggest, though, is using golf club grip solvent instead of soapy water. You can probably pick some up at your local golf pro shop. Grips slide off and on like butter with that stuff. Use a little double sided golf grip tape around the bars for "golf-grip-like" superior hold. Let dry overnight, and you're riding the next morning. Be safe...

i was able to get one of my grips off by seperating the glue and yanking hard. the other one i had to cut off but i didnt care. the new grips actually slid right on. only had to hit it with a rubber malet a few times.

You gotta be kidding! Push the new grips on as far as they will go. Shoot compressed air between the bar and grip, the grip expands and slides right on with a little push. Did you really suggest WD-40?

good idea motul. didnt think of that one..

I used Yammabond to install my new grips. They went on smoothly and I was riding in half an hour. I don't plan to replace them any time soon so removing them was not a concern.

I usually just cut my old grips off with a razor or something like that. And then I use rubbing alcohol as lubricant to install the new ones. It's something I learned from the tech at a bike show when I was mountain biking. It lubes the grip to slide on, but when it dries, the grip isn't going to move anywhere. It makes the backside of the rubber grip a little bit tacky.

Took me 5 min total the other night using the air hose to take them off and put them back on.

Originally posted by Motul You gotta be kidding! Push the new grips on as far as they will go. Shoot compressed air between the bar and grip, the grip expands and slides right on with a little push. Did you really suggest WD-40? Will the bottles of compressed air work for those of us that don't have a compressor handy? I don't understand how air can help mount them so easily? Any movement afterwards or are the grips installed rock-solid using the air method?

The strong blast of air puffs the grip out, stretching it open, so it fits better over the bar. Once you turn off the air, the grip will spring back to its normal size, gripping the bar tightly. I doubt a can of compressed air will be strong enough.

i used a glue called EVOSTICK,its a cellolose based glue, nice and slippy and gooey to allow the sleeve to be pushed into place and moved about for fine tunning ( i think its the one the kids abuse) it has a good stick once it has dried for 24 hours and wont come off in the rain, if you need to remove again simply run a art knife carefully down the side and pull the old sleeve apart.the glue can be pushed and rolled into little balls easy picked off leaving a clean fresh handle bar for another new sleeve if and when its needed.

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I raced bikes for years and we always used hairspray to install the new grips and I have never had a problem. I am sure that the air method works too.

YOU GUYS are flippin crazy ,,, JUST TAKE your air compressor with a nozzle and blast a little air under the lip of the gripp it will fly right off. then to put back on reverse the application put it on as far as you can get it and blast some air under the grip and it wil go right on shoud not take more then 30 seconds per gripp OFF AND ON

i ordered renthal full diamond road race grips but recevied motocroos/ enduro full diamond will they work or should i return them??

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Originally posted by jekyll YOU GUYS are flippin crazy ,,, JUST TAKE your air compressor with a nozzle and blast a little air under the lip of the gripp it will fly right off. then to put back on reverse the application put it on as far as you can get it and blast some air under the grip and it wil go right on shoud not take more then 30 seconds per gripp OFF AND ON If I had an air compressor (and space for it), that would probably work. Unless living in an apartment makes me"flippin crazy"?

Originally posted by Motul You gotta be kidding! Push the new grips on as far as they will go. Shoot compressed air between the bar and grip, the grip expands and slides right on with a little push. Did you really suggest WD-40? Great advice!! Done in 5 minutes....:beer :thumbup Thanks!