Author Topic: bar grips suitable for twist grips  (Read 1502 times)

bar grips suitable for twist grips
« on: 26 July, 2010, 10:20:30 am »
My google fu aint working.   Can anybody point me at such an item please?

LittleWheelsandBig

  • Whimsy Rider
Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #1 on: 26 July, 2010, 12:12:21 pm »
Ergon and BBB grips are available in Gripshift-suitable options.
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fuaran

  • rothair gasta
Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #2 on: 26 July, 2010, 05:09:07 pm »
Or ODI grips. The standard ones are 130mm wide, the gripshift versions are 90mm.

Zoidburg

Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #3 on: 26 July, 2010, 05:10:24 pm »
Or ditch the grip shifters for thumbies and have proper length grips that don't place your hands on the controls at the wrong time.

Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #4 on: 26 July, 2010, 05:25:51 pm »
Or ditch the grip shifters for thumbies and have proper length grips that don't place your hands on the controls at the wrong time.

Not possible - I think.  I'm running a dual drive.


Zoidburg

Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #5 on: 26 July, 2010, 05:28:46 pm »
Or ditch the grip shifters for thumbies and have proper length grips that don't place your hands on the controls at the wrong time.

Not possible - I think.  I'm running a dual drive.


Ditch the derailuer side and replace with thumbie, move the actual dual drive gripshift control to the other side of the brake lever if you have room.

Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #6 on: 26 July, 2010, 06:43:30 pm »
But, I don't think that there is a compatible thumbie for the left side.  Plus, I'd have to buy new shifters instead of just grips.   Not really cost effective I suspect.

Zoidburg

Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #7 on: 26 July, 2010, 06:46:35 pm »
If it's a dual that means you have a derailuer and cassette on top of a dual drive hub?

So the derailuer will run on just a thumb shifter?

You leave the dual drive hub on it's gripshift and move it inboard to other side of the brake lever.

Thumbies be cheap and plentifull unless it's a 9 speed perhaps?

Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #8 on: 26 July, 2010, 06:54:31 pm »
If it's a dual that means you have a derailuer and cassette on top of a dual drive hub?

So the derailuer will run on just a thumb shifter?

You leave the dual drive hub on it's gripshift and move it inboard to other side of the brake lever.

Thumbies be cheap and plentifull unless it's a 9 speed perhaps?

It is a 9x3 and I currently have a proper dual drive shifter with Sachs rear mech:  It all runs just fine.   I simply need new grips.  I've just found some Cane Creek with lock ons that will do the job nicely at SJS.   :)

fuaran

  • rothair gasta
Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #9 on: 26 July, 2010, 07:22:55 pm »
Are you using gripshifters on both sides of the bar, or just one side?

rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #10 on: 26 July, 2010, 07:31:45 pm »
BBB do a 130mm/95mm leather combo.  I had to order them from the Netherlands.
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Re: bar grips suitable for twist grips
« Reply #11 on: 27 July, 2010, 08:28:30 am »
Are you using gripshifters on both sides of the bar, or just one side?

My OP was a tad misleading, sorry.   I wasn't really engaging brain.  The dual drive shifter is a combo twist / thumb unit on just one side.   Looks a bit tacky but works really well.