I’ve used a long and narrow flathead screwdriver to pry up grips enough to spritz something into the gap to free them up for removal; I’m careful and I don’t scratch the bar. I daresay a longish steel awl of sufficient thickness — I have in my mind’s wee eye the one in my tool caddy — ought to work as well or even better.
I’ve dribbled rubbing alcohol into the grip from the bottle by tilting the bike to the side; even better, I’ve squirted WD40 into the gap with the little nozzle pipe — I’ve done this many to remove grips and, IME, the stuff doesn’t leave behind enough lubricant to keep the grip from seating when you install it again (but using alcohol to install it). At any rate, I’ve done all this many times and it all seems to work. On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 1:58 PM 'thomasl...@comcast.net' via RBW Owners Bunch <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> 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/d5c0f981-1e0d-48a0-8dcf-84512f75c5d7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d5c0f981-1e0d-48a0-8dcf-84512f75c5d7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- 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/CALuTfguUQz-Zt6kfA%2B0fL780LbdRnddPzq_DdwZy4Ueggc-XDQ%40mail.gmail.com.
