Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
I know tennis and cycling, so this is interesting. Aside: my theory is that ChatCPT is actually a warehouse full of freshly graduated college students, hired to bang out online responses. Having liberal arts degrees, there is no actual intelligence behind the responses.
Here is the key problem with the response:
"While some people may use tennis racket overgrips on their road bike handlebars for added cushioning or to improve grip, they are not specifically designed for this purpose and may not hold up as well under the stresses of cycling."
Tennis is actually more stressful on wrap than cycling, as your hand is on one part of the grip all of the time, and the hand rotates back and forth many times per minute as you switch from forehand to backhand grips. I wear out tennis grips far more frequently than bike wraps, despite spending triple the time on the bike than on the court. Tennis, especially singles on hard courts, is a far greater challenge to the body overall than cycling, as you are running back and forth with all of the associated impacts. I figure that one hour of hard tennis hurts as much as 3 hours of hard cycling.
IMO the best tennis wrap grip to use is the leather grips.
I love both leather on bars and handles and have lots of experience playing both this classic way.
BTW, gut is most usually cow intestine and natural gut can be used to wrap bars or racket handles like in the early days of wood grips.