Carbon bars.. what grips?

Mickey Eye
Mickey Eye Posts: 590
edited April 2010 in MTB buying advice
Decided to buy some less insane oversized risers and am thinking of giving this carbon wheeze a bit of a go. Probably will end up with either USE Atoms or Easton Monkeylite EC70 (input on those also appreciated) but can I use lock on grips with these or should I use something else?

I have perfectly good ODI Ruffians that I'd rather not change but if I have to change what should I be changing to?

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  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    I'm using lock on grips on my carbon ritchey wcs bars (very nice btw). Tighten them up a little, with a bit of carbon paste, see if they slip. Keep tightening until they stop slipping. And then stop tightening.
  • Mickey Eye
    Mickey Eye Posts: 590
    Cheers, thanks for the info. I'll check out the Ritcheys too.
  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ritchey-WCS-Carbo ... dZViewItem

    These are the ones I'm using. Looks a bit dodgy, I know, but for that price, its brilliant. They're real enough - me and a mate just reckon they're straight from the factories back door, or off the rejected line. Apparently carbon layering isn't an exact science, and now and then bars come out too thin (by like 1/10th of a mm or something).

    What it basically means was when I got mine, I had to put a small piece of coke can between the bar and my rockshox pushloc lever thing. Everything else fit perfectly.
  • Mickey Eye
    Mickey Eye Posts: 590
    Great, now I can't find one single reason to not just buy those. Cheers man, you just saved me a chunk of money.
  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    No worries. Now there's just the small matter of my fee.. :D

    They look good as well.

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Poshbikes Nitrile - superlight, absorb shock, ten quid.
    GT ZASKAR CARBON TEAM

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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    Superstar grips are carbon bar safe.
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • rudedog
    rudedog Posts: 523
    RealMan wrote:
    No worries. Now there's just the small matter of my fee.. :D

    They look good as well.

    Image0052.jpg

    They look nicer than my monkeylites
  • ads4
    ads4 Posts: 698
    ODI Ruffians on my FSA Carbon bars...

    FSABar003.jpg
    Adam.

    Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

    Current ride - Yeti ASR 5a X0
  • toasty
    toasty Posts: 2,598
    supersonic wrote:
    Poshbikes Nitrile - superlight, absorb shock, ten quid.

    Bit of an acquired taste though foam grips :)
    Stumpy FSR 29er
  • mcbazza
    mcbazza Posts: 251
    Ads4 wrote:
    ODI Ruffians on my FSA Carbon bars...

    FSABar003.jpg

    Did your c*ck manage to slip into the edge of the photo?!?
    ;)
    Ok, so it's a hen. But, that just doesn't quite work as a gag.
    Stumpy, Rockhopper (stolen!) & custom SX Trail II - that should do it!
  • Mickey Eye
    Mickey Eye Posts: 590
    Carbon bars have the chicks lining up.






    Sorry.
  • ads4
    ads4 Posts: 698
    Stupid chooks, they get everywhere!!

    FSABar002.jpg
    Adam.

    Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

    Current ride - Yeti ASR 5a X0

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