My second temporary throttle grip fix

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Some may remember I had a mishap with my throttle tube/grip breaking.

I "fixed" it like this



That didn't work very well because the blue zip tie kept creeping leftwards to the point where it wasn't "pulling" the throttle grip towards the left. The blue zip tie crept up the wider part of the throttle grip.

I did a different zip tie "fix" for the 100 mile ride to Clayton when I moved house. Now there is enough left, lateral pull on the red zip tie without it trying to creep up the beveled edge of the grip.

I also ride 150 miles last Sunday as a break from unpacking.

[DirtyDan]

Zip ties

 

Dan

[Leathel]

Bikers Choice grips?



Glued mine back together and it held OK, poor design though

[Moonshot_1]

No duct tape? What kind of fix is this with no duct tape?

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Bikers Choice grips?



Glued mine back together and it held OK, poor design though

Well done.

I thought they were Show Chrome but that's the toothed sections that needed to be meshed together.

How did you do your fix?

[Leathel]

that was on my old bike, so quite some time ago, We use 2 part plastic glues at work, so just mixed some up and pressed them together, before it was totally dry trimmed any that oozed into the throttle tube with a fine box cutter knife, then left to dry before refitting

 I did like the look of them but they are not much use as heated grips....lukewarm at best. The glue still held when I sold the bike 2 years later. I ended up cutting the wires and kept the controller as I had some Oxford grips I was given with no controller so I used the controller with those on the Valk... works a treat and toasty warm hands

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that was on my old bike, so quite some time ago, We use 2 part plastic glues at work, so just mixed some up and pressed them together, before it was totally dry trimmed any that oozed into the throttle tube with a fine box cutter knife, then left to dry before refitting

 I did like the look of them but they are not much use as heated grips....lukewarm at best. The glue still held when I sold the bike 2 years later. I ended up cutting the wires and kept the controller as I had some Oxford grips I was given with no controller so I used the controller with those on the Valk... works a treat and toasty warm hands

Thanks.  I'll try that.

The ones I have are nice and toasty when it's not cold enough for bulky heated gloves.

[Leathel]

Batwings keep your hands out of the cold too.... was out in near freezing temps with Fog as well in my summer gloves and heated grips on, without the cold wind on the hands I had no need for winter gloves (were in my bags but didn't use them)





but I intend to remove it for the summer months