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Changing Handle Bar Grips??? Couple Questions??
I just got my new 09RS and I don't like the factory grips at all. They r very uncomfortable!! Question is, I would like to buy grips from the motorcycle shop, so will grips for like a streetbike fit?? I just want some soft rubber grips that will match the bike with like yellow in them. Or do I need to know a specific size like 7/8" or 1" bars??
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Also any tips and tricks are highly appreciated?? As in use glue, hairspray, and stuff like that!!
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You need grips for 7/8" bars. Measure and make sure they are the right length, too. Lot of tricks for slipping them on and making them stick. I don't like glue, and neither my wife nor I uses hairspray, so that's not readily available to me. I'd tell you the trick I learned in the bike shop fifty years ago, but it is now considered to be dangerous, and I am not comfortable blabbing it around.
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Okay I measured the length!! Is it odd that the left side is 4 1/2 inches long and the throttle side is 5" inches long?? I wonder if new motorcycle grips are those lengths. If not I guess I'll have to get the black rubber grips from the can am website!!
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Also note, I would say at least half the people here, don't have the stock grips and many have changed them including myself. I did the ISO grips, so much better.
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GOS member (Girls On Spyders)
Originally Posted by patches
Also note, I would say at least half the people here, don't have the stock grips and many have changed them including myself. I did the ISO grips, so much better.
I did Kury ISO grips, also. So much better!
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Originally Posted by ImpalexSS
Also any tips and tricks are highly appreciated?? As in use glue, hairspray, and stuff like that!!
I've used soap and water and mine have been on for a year now with no problem. Others have said with soap and water the grips have slid off.
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Blazing Member
Originally Posted by ImpalexSS
Okay I measured the length!! Is it odd that the left side is 4 1/2 inches long and the throttle side is 5" inches long?? I wonder if new motorcycle grips are those lengths. If not I guess I'll have to get the black rubber grips from the can am website!!
One side has a spacer. Both the new grips will be the same length.
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Originally Posted by NancysToy
You need grips for 7/8" bars. Measure and make sure they are the right length, too. Lot of tricks for slipping them on and making them stick. I don't like glue, and neither my wife nor I uses hairspray, so that's not readily available to me. I'd tell you the trick I learned in the bike shop fifty years ago, but it is now considered to be dangerous, and I am not comfortable blabbing it around.
i second the hairspray...acts as a lube going on, and like glue when dried
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I used glass cleaner, no problems in 2 years.
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Originally Posted by duneside
I used glass cleaner, no problems in 2 years.
Same here glass cleaner [Windex] NO glue.
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