Thread: Looooong grips for butterfly bars? Or padded tape?
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Old 07-01-12 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
Found Grab on grips shred as the sun dries them and your hands do the rest,
so they get thinner and thinner .
I wrapped Cotton bar tape over them, and they last for decades.

just the 4 Pieces are more like pushing together twin beds as compared with a Queen sized,
because of the way they are rounded end finished for packaging ..

If you can get long single pieces , great..
Old non-Grabon grips, yes. But the Grabon brand doesn't. I have Grabon mountain bike grips on all of my mountain bikes for many, many years. No cracks or dying out. I've even taken them off and put them on many times without any problems.
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