Removing Handlebar Grips
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Get a flat bladed screwdriver under the edge and insert the tube from a gap of GT85 under the gap and give it a squirt. With some work and wiggling it should come off.
Clean them thoroughly and use a squirt of hair spray to lube it back on.
Clean them thoroughly and use a squirt of hair spray to lube it back on.
PpPete
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chandler's Ford
One of the few times the long squirty nozzle on the WD40 can comes in useful.
Get it down as far as you can between grip and handlebar - quick squirt.
repeat at 180 deg around the bar.
should be possible to rotate the grip now and gently ease it off.
EDIT X-posted with Drago
Get it down as far as you can between grip and handlebar - quick squirt.
repeat at 180 deg around the bar.
should be possible to rotate the grip now and gently ease it off.
EDIT X-posted with Drago
daddyshambles
Über Member
- Location
- Paisley
an old spoke with the threads buffed off and bent into an "L" shape and then wiggled around and squirted as above is effective
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
Long 4mm Allan key, water. Stick it in, lift it up, squirt in some water, roll it around, peel it off.
But the best way by far (like 20 metres) is a compessor with an air jet attachment!
But the best way by far (like 20 metres) is a compessor with an air jet attachment!
- Location
- Glasgow
Dunno about all the fuss: I removed handlebar grips by twisting them outwards using plumber's pliers 
PpPete
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chandler's Ford
yebbut Pat you're just a gurl.
takes a man todo things right make things more complicated than they need to be
takes a man to
marshmella
Guru
- Location
- Telford, Shropshire
Thats dead right Pete, and we don't even need to read the instruction manual either.
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User6179
Guest
Lol you are all amateurs, I always pour boiling water over them and they pop off quite easy.Make sure your wearing gloves so not to get scalded.
- Location
- Glasgow
Nobody nowadays can read an instruction manual!Thats dead right Pete, and we don't even need to read the instruction manual either.
They have all been translated into English from Chinese by a Slovenian ESOL student
(no insult intended to folks of China and Slovenia
)
smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
I used to squirt brake cleaner in between, it slips them off and on easily, and more importantly it evaporates completely so they don't twist when riding 
This was my version of choice
This was my version of choice
