What type of adhesive do you use when installing new grips?

[Mike-AK]

What type of adhesive do you use when installing new grips?

 

[lankydoug]

Shoe Goo

 

[shawbagga]

few wraps of electrical tape where grip will go, douse with straight unleaded petrol, slide on, let sit for a day or two, lockwire if you really worried. tried this for the first time the other week, works a treat no BS! rock solid

 

[Fat Tire Flyer]

Install my grips with Three Bond Griplock.. And then lightly safety wired..

 

[PC.]

Hairspray and safety wire

 

[HuskyDude]

Shoe Goo

I believe it's the same as GOOP

Which just happens to be my favourite adhesive.

 

[Mike-AK]

I believe it's the same as GOOP

Which just happens to be my favourite adhesive.

Any particular technique to applying it? I've got a tube already, and it works great on shoes. I imagine it would work just as well on grips.

 

[HuskyDude]

It's all pretty good. But I use the AG Marine for it's UV resistance

 

[Farmer John]

Clear spray paint.

 

[troy deck]

i like 3m weather strip adhesive the yellow snoty stuff

 

[Motosportz]

Hairspray and safety wire

yep

 

[Johnrg]

Hairspray but my bike room smells like a freaking hair salon.

 

[pvduke]

right side: i do this one first, before cutting the left off, using air to install it with some spit or a teensy bit of gloss black enamel to stick it to the tube.
wire: plastic tube- no. metal tube- yes.

left side:
*medium-soft monocompund types: a smidge of 3M. i used paint once on these softish types and it ate the grip. frankly i dont install the no-name soft grips anymore. they just squrim too much and get flubbery with adheasive. get what you pay for.
*dual-compound (like Husky and premium Renthal with the hard center which i prefer!) types: Renthal grip glue.
then wire them up AFTER drying overnight. esp with barkies as water can get in and cause it to spin.

 

[Fat Tire Flyer]

Any particular technique to applying it?

I use a flux brush.. Used for plumbing, building r/c model airplanes etc.. Only pennies each..

 

[Motosportz]

wire: plastic tube- no. metal tube- yes.

Never had in issue in 20 years of safety wire on plastic throttle tubes.

 

[glangston]

Safety wire

 

[Mike-AK]

My challenge is I am trying to install some Domino Dakar open ended grips. Love the feel of the grips, and the left is on good and solid with just a little rubbing alcohol to slide it on. I can't get the right to grip on the aluminum G2 throttle tube for some reason. I might just have to go back to the OEM dual compound grips. If so, anybody have any tricks for a cutting out the ends without them looking like crap?

 

[Fat Tire Flyer]

If so, anybody have any tricks for a cutting out the ends without them looking like crap?

I owned a bicycle shop for 16+ years.. Installed thousands of grips.. It's called the "cookie cutter method".. If you have a old steel mountain bike handlebar (aluminum is usually to thick walled to work).. Spray lots of hairspray on the bar and inside the grip.. Slide the grip on and use a hammer and whack the end of the grips until it pierces the end of the grips (hope that makes sense).. Or you can use a Motion Pro Grip End Cutter (3 Piece Set)..

P.S. Ideally you want a 7/8" OD thin wall pipe for the clutch side and 1" OD thin wall pipe for the throttle side..

 

[pvduke]

Never had in issue in 20 years of safety wire on plastic throttle tubes.

not saying its wrong. some can feel the drag and bulges caused by the plastic tube distorting. unless the wire is tight it serves no purpose. not saying yer wrong. im just saying!

 

[Motosportz]

not saying its wrong. some can feel the drag and bulges caused by the plastic tube distorting. unless the wire is tight it serves no purpose. not saying yer wrong. im just saying!

pretty sure you are wrong Its really hard to collapse a tube.