Esi Grips Are Fantastic

Mel · *by **Mel** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:32pm*

Nick_K wrote: Red, black, greena and red. Last time I was at kiwibikes it looked like he had a decent range of them.

http://www.esigrips.com

And blue. And the website says two more colours for '09. My guess is white and pink.

wachtourak wrote:I used to have something similar way back in the day, grip level was ill, the durability was not however. It would be great if you would be able to give us an update in a couple of months on how they are holding up

Wachy, durability seems to be fine, according to the other reports here. When I tried to twist the grips, they didn't get scuffed up at all. Rubber grips would have been scuffed up from my gloves cutting into them. These are tough! In all honesty, if I report back in 2 months, I will probably have less than20 hrs riding time on them. :blush:

Ten karapoti's is a pretty good indication of durability and other people that have used them rate them.

wachtourak · *by **wachtourak** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:35pm*

Cool, I did not see that post re Karapoti. I've got a set of Ruffians that are on the way out, will perhaps give some of these a try.

musket · *by **musket** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:38pm*

wachtourak wrote: Cool, I did not see that post re Karapoti. I've got a set of Ruffians that are on the way out, will perhaps give some of these a try.

Only negative is if you give grips a hard time. They'll tear if you put them down on rocks or in to sharp stuff.

pushbikerider · *by **pushbikerider** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:43pm*

The only thing that seems to shorten their life is getting cut, like would happen if you crashed ,otherwise they seem like a cool light weight product, that seems to last, I'll stay wth my ODI's, but the esi-grips do look like a good product

wachtourak · *by **wachtourak** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:44pm*

I don't crash very often as I'm usually riding too slow to crash, should be all gangsta

Astoria Paranoia · *by **Astoria Paranoia** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:45pm*

wachtourak wrote: I don't crash very often

wachtourak · *by **wachtourak** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:45pm*

You've seen me crash a grand total of one times.

Astoria Paranoia · *by **Astoria Paranoia** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:47pm*

And heard of others

Monolith · *by **Monolith** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:54pm*

They look like real nice grips. :thumbsup:

Shame about the weight though

Nick_K · *by **Nick_K** on Mon 10/Nov/08 9:55pm*

Monolith wrote: They look like real nice grips.

Shame about the weight though

60g. Thats less than half a ODI and lighter than most other non lockons.

Unless you want to rock the foams there ain't much lighter.

implant · *by **implant** on Mon 10/Nov/08 10:19pm*

I tried the foams once. They were teh dishwashing liquid once wet... :crazy:

Monolith · *by **Monolith** on Mon 10/Nov/08 10:34pm*

Nick_K wrote:
Monolith wrote: They look like real nice grips.

Shame about the weight though

60g. Thats less than half a ODI and lighter than most other non lockons.

Unless you want to rock the foams there ain't much lighter.

I've been using cut down pork rinds for the last month or so. On shiny bars (Carbon) they're great, tighter than a nun's. On alloy bars they're full on moto steelo, even with hairspray. Still, at 14g I can live with that.

wachtourak · *by **wachtourak** on Tue 11/Nov/08 6:24am*

I just don't see how anyone can sacrifice control for that tiny bit of weight saving. The time you lose when you crash cuz of your grip going all moto steez is gonna be far more than the miniscule time you gain from lighter grips of all things

crazy xcfagz, with their seats higher than their bars and all that nonsense