How to Replace Motorcycle Grips
Posted: Thursday, September 22, 2005
by Maricon
Rush Printing Services
Riders can easily be bored by the look, design and feel of their motorcycle parts and gears. New look excites them. It also gives them a different hype. This is the reason why they keep on changing them from time to time.
Most, if not all of the riders know how to repair or maintain their motorcycles. Changing tires, fixing the stand up to its cleaning, washing and waxing – you bet, seasoned riders knew it!
Some of them are learning it in an easy manner like for instance in a course or through a peer or another rider. But no matter how they acquire their knowledge the fact is that said knowledge will always redound to their advantage.
There are some parts that are easy to replace. Grips, for instance are good example. It only involves few steps and here they are:
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Ready your new grips, rubbing alcohol, hammer, socket and WD-40.
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Remove the bar end. Be careful with its head and threads. If they are already damaged, better replace them also.
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Pull the end of the grip and spray on the WD-40 to loosen the contact. You can remove the grips by twisting and folding its inner edge. Remember where the original location of the inner edge.
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After the grip has been pulled, clean the handle with rubbing alcohol. Be sure to remove the glue from the Clip-on. Also, lubricate the Clip-on with rubbing alcohol and slide the new grip. While sliding it, do some twisting techniques. Do this while the alcohol has not yet evaporated otherwise it will be harder to twist.
If the new grip material will allow, you can also use oil instead of alcohol.
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To tap the new grip into position, use the hammer and socket. Make sure that it fits well and will not impair the bike's operation. To test it, roll the throttle to full-on and let it snap back. You can ride around to be used to its stiffness.
Finally, you can enjoy your bike's new look and new grip!
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Don't use oil on grips, it does not evaporate like alcohol. I use carb or brake cleaner, which gives you enough time to get it on, but evaporates vaery quickly.
extremely lame. sounds like changing the grips on a 1970 suzuki 500 twin. if you still have 1 of those oldies leave it be to collect dust. if changing grips on a classic or newer machine that is set up to ride and use often (hence the need for a nice pair of grips) carefully unscrew the right and left controls (after wd40'ing the mirrors to remove them-before unlocking the lock bolt & unsrewing from the mount) to remove the mounts and cables and wires from the bar. worth the effort. if you are fortunate to own a beautiful classic that is riden & not a garage queen put some real nice modern grips to make using the bike enjoyable.WTF are you talking about? This article is lame...looks like it was translated from another language. But what are you talking about, Denver? Whats wrong with bikes from the seventies? 'oldies'? i was born in the seventies, jack ass. At least you could buy more then three types of bikes back then, and had a nice selection of engine sizes. Where are all the Italian, Spanish, and Austrian bikes now? Not being sold in the American market....just everywhere else. Along with all the nice small displacment bkes. Everyone in this country doesnt need to ride a monster 'cruiser' with ear-bleeding loud pipes or drag strip ready crotch rockets. I lived in Europe for a while and it's really funny to hear Americans today talk about how their 'starter bike' is over 500cc and they really need to move up to something larger. Um, the majority of motorcyclists in the world, I mean people who ride EVERYDAY for transportation, ride bikes alot more humble in size than your average thrill seeking American rider trying to stroke his own ego.