Best grips for 460mm fixie bars?

[enkei]

Hi all,

My ss/fixie Charge Plug has 460mm wide mid-rise flat bars (25.4mm stem fitting). I've been using them with 'artfully' installed double-wrapped tape for nice, thick grippage but the tape is going to need replacing soon and I'm thinking of going with grips. It looks like it'll take 110mm items.

I'm just wondering what people like/recommend for this application.

Thanks in advance.

nk

[ichitan]

One of my bikes came with cheap plastic hand grips, about as thin as they make them. These would be a good size for a child, but they were too thin for an adult. I bought some synthetic rubber hand grips, and stretched them over the thin plastic ones. This made them much more comfortable.

It can be difficult to stretch the hand grip to fit over the other one. So experiment. When I first did it, I pushed the hand grips over the necks of bottles, and left them to stretch for a couple of days. When I put them on the bike, i got them on about two thirds of the way, on the first day. The next day a little further. The next day a little further. After about a week, I got them all the way on.

I have actually done this on two bikes now, and used hand grips from different shops. The internal hand grips on the first bike were plastic. The internal hand grips on the second bike were synthetic rubber. So I have synthetic rubber hand grips over synthetic rubber hand grips.

https://forums.bikeride.com/thread-8404.html

[enkei]

Thanks! I'll have to investigate this option.

(06-16-2023, 03:29 AM)ichitan Wrote:  One of my bikes came with cheap plastic hand grips, about as thin as they make them. These would be a good size for a child, but they were too thin for an adult. I bought some synthetic rubber hand grips, and stretched them over the thin plastic ones. This made them much more comfortable.

It can be difficult to stretch the hand grip to fit over the other one. So experiment. When I first did it, I pushed the hand grips over the necks of bottles, and left them to stretch for a couple of days. When I put them on the bike, i got them on about two thirds of the way, on the first day. The next day a little further. The next day a little further. After about a week, I got them all the way on.

I have actually done this on two bikes now, and used hand grips from different shops. The internal hand grips on the first bike were plastic. The internal hand grips on the second bike were synthetic rubber. So I have synthetic rubber hand grips over synthetic rubber hand grips.

https://forums.bikeride.com/thread-8404.html