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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: Devilock on December 06, 2011, 05:14 PM
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Just wondering (this is how sad it gets sometimes) what different solutions you lot use to install your grips...
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spit down em, dries within 30 mins normally :daumenhoch:
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Ladies hairspray :smitten:
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But not while you're eating rusks...
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Spray the grip with wd40. Never had a problem - dries up soon after :daumenhoch:
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chuck em in a sink with hot water,can add a bit of fairy too,not alot of good if you wanna ride it straight away tho :-\
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Manfat
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Manfat
note to self: DO NOT ever buy grips from Mark
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Spray the grip with wd40. Never had a problem - dries up soon after :daumenhoch:
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I use GT85 or similar but curious if there were better ways. Also how about removal...?
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WD40,never had any grips come loose.
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I knew jizz would be mentioned...!
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I use GT85 or similar but curious if there were better ways. Also how about removal...?
Remove the bars, fill a basin with boiling hot water - dip the bar end in for 30 seconds or so, and the grip will be pliable and will slip off with ease :daumenhoch:
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Removal= screwdriver down the back of the grip,squirt of WD40,bit of a wiggle and Bob`s your Uncle.
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WD40
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I use GT85 or similar but curious if there were better ways. Also how about removal...?
Remove the bars, fill a basin with boiling hot water - dip the bar end in for 30 seconds or so, and the grip will be pliable and will slip off with ease :daumenhoch:
Sounds good to me! Nice one.
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Manfat
note to self: DO NOT ever buy grips from Mark
:LolLolLolLol:
I find you have to warm em up in a pan of hot water to allow enough expansion first Griff ;D
Got some lovely VIRGIN green Ame's if ya want em? >:D
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Removal= screwdriver down the back of the grip,squirt of WD40,bit of a wiggle and Bob`s your Uncle.
I used a screwdriver once and scratched the fooking bars .
I now find a spoke or a stiff tie wrap works better with WD40 :daumenhoch:
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Manfat
note to self: DO NOT ever buy grips from Mark
:LolLolLolLol:
I find you have to warm em up in a pan of hot water to allow enough expansion first Griff ;D
Got some lovely VIRGIN green Ame's if ya want em? >:D
were white prior to fitting technique :LolLolLolLol:
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Water
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Tears...
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spit down em, dries within 30 mins normally :daumenhoch:
and i thought i was the only one that gobbed all over my grips!!!!
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Stanley knife :daumenhoch: go back on dead easy too !!
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WD40 for both off and on. Quick and easy.
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putting them on,
use womens hairspray, elnett works best i've found, i've never had any come loose even in the rain :daumenhoch:
taking them off,
use either a foot pump or a stirup pump with the pointed adapter, two people are best for this job,
one person puts the palm of their hand flat and tight over the hole in the end of the grip while holding the grip inthe other hand.
the other person puts the small adapter in the hole of the other grip and holds it there while pumping, the air pressure wile cause one of the grips to expand slightly and if you time it right you can just pull the grip off with no damage to bars or grip.
one the first one is off repeat for the second grip but this time with the palm of the hand pushed firmly against the bars from where the first grip has been removed.
i've done this many times and always found the grips to be totaly reuseable as they only expand a fraction and go straight back to shape.
i showed this trick to Woody about a year ago at his work place and he got some compressed air in aerosol sized tins that is used for cleaning lenses and we tried it with that and the grips shot of the bars :daumenhoch:
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spit down em, dries within 30 mins normally :daumenhoch:
x2 better than WD40
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Stanley knife :daumenhoch: go back on dead easy too !!
:LolLolLolLol:
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Manfat
note to self: DO NOT ever buy grips from Mark
Sweet Jesus, i've just bought those Performer bars off the greb. :shocked:
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Manfat
note to self: DO NOT ever buy grips from Mark
Sweet Jesus, i've just bought those Performer bars off the greb. :shocked:
:LolLolLolLol: Love handle bars
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Smell em...
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Put on using cable ties, No waiting for anything to dry. Remove using WD40 and the little red straw that comes with it :daumenhoch:
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I use GT85 or similar but curious if there were better ways. Also how about removal...?
Remove the bars, fill a basin with boiling hot water - dip the bar end in for 30 seconds or so, and the grip will be pliable and will slip off with ease :daumenhoch:
WHAT HE SAID ....SAVE THE LUBE FOR THE BEDROOM!!!
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Smell em...
That's a job for Gaz and Joff. :daumenhoch:
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Just cleaned my grips and used washing up liqued to put em back on, there still slipping like a bitch almost a week later :LolLolLolLol:
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spit down em, dries within 30 mins normally :daumenhoch:
this,
there is no better method imo...
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WD40 :)
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I could never understand why WD40 worked until someone told me that it "corrodes" the rubber a tiny bit which helps it stick to the bars. Ive no idea of thats true, but ive used it ever since and its always worked.
WD40 Works great for getting grips off to, esp if you want to put new grips on the same bars (or if you want to put the old grips onto something else) cos you dont have to wait for the "removal lube" to dry, cos its also the sticking lube.
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Confession time....... Last year I nicked a near empty can of hairspray out of me Gran's bathroom!!! :-X :police:
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use either a foot pump or a stirup pump with the pointed adapter, two people are best for this job,
one person puts the palm of their hand flat and tight over the hole in the end of the grip while holding the grip inthe other hand.
the other person puts the small adapter in the hole of the other grip and holds it there while pumping, the air pressure wile cause one of the grips to expand slightly and if you time it right you can just pull the grip off with no damage to bars or grip.
one the first one is off repeat for the second grip but this time insert your knob into the hole in the bars from where the first grip has been removed.
i've done this many times and always found the grips to be totaly reuseable as they only expand a fraction and go straight back to shape. The same however cannot be said about my knob ..... it has never quite been the same since
:shocked:
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use either a foot pump or a stirup pump with the pointed adapter, two people are best for this job,
one person puts the palm of their hand flat and tight over the hole in the end of the grip while holding the grip inthe other hand.
the other person puts the small adapter in the hole of the other grip and holds it there while pumping, the air pressure wile cause one of the grips to expand slightly and if you time it right you can just pull the grip off with no damage to bars or grip.
one the first one is off repeat for the second grip but this time insert your knob into the hole in the bars from where the first grip has been removed.
i've done this many times and always found the grips to be totaly reuseable as they only expand a fraction and go straight back to shape. The same however cannot be said about my knob ..... it has never quite been the same since
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sometimes you need to keep things to yourself..must be his age Joff :LolLolLolLol:
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:2funny: :2funny: :2funny:
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use either a foot pump or a stirup pump with the pointed adapter, two people are best for this job,
one person puts the palm of their hand flat and tight over the hole in the end of the grip while holding the grip inthe other hand.
the other person puts the small adapter in the hole of the other grip and holds it there while pumping, the air pressure wile cause one of the grips to expand slightly and if you time it right you can just pull the grip off with no damage to bars or grip.
one the first one is off repeat for the second grip but this time insert your knob into the hole in the bars from where the first grip has been removed.
i've done this many times and always found the grips to be totaly reuseable as they only expand a fraction and go straight back to shape. The same however cannot be said about my knob ..... it has never quite been the same since
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sometimes you need to keep things to yourself..must be his age Joff :LolLolLolLol:
I have heard he is smuggling Viagra in the tubes of all the bikes he is importing from the states :-\ :-X
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joff/ash :knuppel2: :knuppel2:
:LolLolLolLol:
and where spen, the other member of the comedy gang?
he can have one in advance :knuppel2:
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WD40 always works for me.
Poke a spoke down the grip, spray some in, wiggle it (just a little bit) and pull it off with so much ease that you fall over backwards.
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To get them on: Quick squirt of Lynx, always does the trick.
To get them off: Peel back the flange, spit in it and manipulate with your hand.
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To get them on: Quick squirt of Lynx, always does the trick.
To get them off: Peel back the flange, spit in it and manipulate with your hand.
Your suggestion for removing them Nick sounds like some sex education technique...!
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Cheers Andy, but the boyz had all the jokes about your senility and devience covered I thought.
Just boul a kette, fill a pint glass and tip the bike on it's side so you can dunk the grip in. No need to take the bars off - the grips come off easy. To put them back on just dunk them in the glass of boiling water and slide them on. Simples.
No need for sexual obscenities or perverted habbits, just don't burn you fingers you retards!
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just give the bar ends a little sloppy suck and slide em on ::)
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Just boul a kette, fill a pint glass and tip the bike on it's side so you can dunk the grip in. No need to take the bars off - the grips come off easy. To put them back on just dunk them in the glass of boiling water and slide them on. Simples.
seriously!!!! watch the glass dosent shatter!!!
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Ive found for removal placing each end in a sink of boiling water without the bike attached, very affective.
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Ive found for removal placing each end in a sink of boiling water without the bike attached, very affective.
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No bodily fluids involved :2funny:
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Maybe a small amount of piss...!
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Ok, I forgot to say use a stolen Stella or other pub pint glass as they won't shatter!
I thought saying pint glass would have been enough...
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Envase_WD-40.jpg)
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And i should have said that the removal of grips which i use should have been credited to mr pitt...!
Cheers love!
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And i should have said that the removal of grips which i use should have been credited to mr pitt...!
Cheers love!
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