I'm not sure I'd call it a "trick," but the standard procedure in bike shops is to use an air nozzle with a soft tip hooked up to a compressor. Peel up the edge of the grip, insert tip of nozzle, blast away. The compressed air inflates the grip just enough to reduce its hold on the bar and it comes off super easy, no damage to the grip or bar.
Not sure if you have an air compressor at home, but if you do, that's the best way to do it. I've tried to do something similar with one of the cans of "canned air" they sell for cleaning electronics but it doesn't really have enough pressure. If there's a bike shop nearby, I'm sure they'd do it for you. Jeremy Till Sacramento, CA On Monday, November 18, 2024 at 12:58:51 PM UTC-8 thomasl...@comcast.net wrote: > Hi, all. > > First, I really like the OGK grips as an idea. And I probably will like > them in practice. This is not about avoiding them in anway. > > I put a pair of the "ergo" (i.e. finger-grooved) OGK grips (Genuine > Japanese Grips (pair) – Rivendell Bicycle Works > <https://www.rivbike.com/products/ogk-grip?_pos=1&_sid=30394fa3a&_ss=r>) > on a Boscomoose bar. In the process, I rendered the grips... shall we say.. > unappealing. I used a red bandana to try to muscle the grip into place, not > having used enough acohol initially. The bandana of course, perhaps under > the influence of alcohol, transferred a vague pinkishness from its red to > the grip itself. This grip no longer has the clean look for which I was > hoping. Lesson learned: (1) use more alcohol (2) to the extent one remains > needed, use a *white* towel. > > Question: Now of course I'd like to remove the pink-ish things. I'd rather > not destroy them, as a matter of principle more than for my potential > future use. > > I was able to remove a similarly evaporatively-installed ESI Chunky grip > with quite a bit of tedium and time and energy. With the Chunky, I was able > to feed some alcohol under the grip by using a strong plastic chopstick to > pry it up a bit. Even then, I had to do it several times from both ends > before I started to make headway with actually removing the grip. > > Frankly, these OGK grips are less pliable and more tight-fitting than the > ESI Chunky. That chopstick is not up to the task of prying it up. And the > OGK grip is closed on one end. > > Is there a trick? Is there a non-destructive way of removing grips > installed this way that isn't tedious and time and/or energy-consuming? > > I'm picturing an unbreakable non-scratching needled syringe designed to > inject alcohol into tight spots. If it turns out I have to make or buy > something like that, then I'm probably just going to start carefully > slicing bits off until it falls away. > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean > who, yes, has a second pair of the OGK grips for just such an occasion > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/44473ec0-474d-412b-93e5-945b5dedd014n%40googlegroups.com.
