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End-cap vertical grips?

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  • Started 1 year ago by Yodhrin
  • Latest reply from Arellcat
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  1. Yodhrin
    Member

    Just wondering if anyone knows if something like the pictured addon exists, but one where the attachment point is into the bar end hole rather than designed to be clamped around the handlebar? I find when I'm just toddling along at slower speeds I often end up shifting my hands to hold on to the outside ends of my Gazelle's grips rather than holding them "properly" because it's more comfortable, and it seems like having supplementary upright grips would be good for that, but everything I can find seems geared towards road and gravel bikes with a very forward posture - I've seen plenty of "horns" style full replacement grips for example, but if you orient them so the "proper" grip is correct for an upright position the protruding parts would be almost straight forwards instead of up & down.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    They used to exist.

    Don’t know if they stopped making them because they burst some bars or whether the issue was bars mostly having the same external diameter, but not internal.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. SRD
    Moderator

    I had the 'horns' sort of thing on my folder. but oriented 'up/down' (if I understand your description) without any problem or discomfort. Maybe my perception of the 'proper' grip is off.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. Yodhrin
    Member

    @SRD Hmm, maybe I've just not found the right ones then? Both the ones that came on my bike and the ones I've found online are "ergonomic" so they have to be angled a certain way relative to your riding/arms posture, and since the ones I see are made for the "roadie hunch" the horns would be wonky on mine. I'll maybe just wait and ask at Hart's when I put the bike in for a service.

    EDIT: Nevermind, just as I go to close the Amazon window it recommends me one where the position of the horns can be adjusted relative to the rest. AI is getting a bit terrifying these days hah.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Not sure I understand this 'up/down' thing, but I've always had bar ends on my bikes. The ones SRD had on her folder [Edit: originally] were stubby things I added as replacements when I decided to put my old Onza bar ends onto another bike.

    On my Elephant Bike I realised that a lot of the time I was riding with the edges of my hands resting on the handlebar grips, with my fingers curled into loose, relaxed fists. My bar ends came from St John Street Cycles and clamp over the last half an inch of handlebar, so not much loss in handlebar space.

    Rack and roll

    If it's just bar ends you want, the Bike Station has a whole boxful to choose from. Most are the traditional 'pointing forward' style, most stubby, some L-shaped; but others, like those on my EB, and indeed the archetypal Cane Creek ergo bar ends (as once fitted to the Dahon Speed Pro, for instance) centre your hand around the end of the handlebar rather than forward of it.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. SRD
    Moderator

    @arelcat at some point I replaced the 'original' stubbies on the Dahon, with a pair of full grips with integrated horn type things that Cycleservice recommended. Super comfortable for riding.

    (can't remember *why* I replaced them)

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. Arellcat
    Moderator

    can't remember *why* I replaced them

    Maybe because they were uncomfortable? I certainly thought so!

    Posted 1 year ago #

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