Glue your new grips

[roadie]

I'm going to put on my throttle tamer  and heated grips kit (from Murph) and plan on slicing off the old grips.  Do I need to glue the new grips over the tamer and heated pad?  Or Can I just slip it on without glue?  When I peeled off the stocker grips a while back, they didn't have glue on them either...is there a right or wrong answer here?  Thanks for any input. 

Oh yeah:  do I have to use special grip glue, or will some, say, bathroom silicone sealant do the trick?

[MAN OF BLUES]

no glue, no silicone, and by all means NEVER hair spray...
simply get everything ready, spray the inside of the grip and outside of the bar with Gumout and quickly while wet, jam it on there....let it set a while, it will evap and all wilol be good.
To remove grips, apply the same technique using the red snooter tube slipped under the grip...spritz, twist, pull off...ez

[roadie]

cool, thx.

[556ALPHA]

use compressed air and save the slicing for food

[roadie]

I'll buy some gumout tomorrow, so guess Tuesday I'll be rockin some heated grips and throttle tamer as I cruise to work. 

[MikeERideWNC]

Here is a video I just did last night showing how to remove grips and install the heat pad.

Hair Spray is OK...
I have been using it for as long as I can remember without any adverse effects.

Motorcycle Hand Grip Removal - Heated Grip Pad Install

[OregonLAN]

On the left side, wrap 1 - 2 layers of cloth tape around the bars and soak it with Aquanet Super-Hold hairspray. Then, slide the grips on while it's wet. Let it sit for 20 minutes. Works with regular and heated grips. You can always remove them later, but it's a PITA.

[booger]

no glue, no silicone, and by all means NEVER hair spray...
simply get everything ready, spray the inside of the grip and outside of the bar with Gumout and quickly while wet, jam it on there....let it set a while, it will evap and all wilol be good.
To remove grips, apply the same technique using the red snooter tube slipped under the grip...spritz, twist, pull off...ez

Geez, I'm on my 27th motorcycle and have used hair spray on probably 25.

[Son of Pappy]

Well, I've used hair spray all along as well, but, after giving it some thought and after trading a few emails with Rich (MOB) I think he is right and keep in mind I live in the PNW and ride year round, rain or shine, as well as a KLR and YZ450F.  If rain gets inside the grip area the hair spray will turn to snot, something I dont need happening right in the middle of a rough stretch.  Give it a try, spray some HS, let it dry, then get it wet.  Might as well be vasoline.  I aint waiting on it happening to me, no more hair spray on my grips.

YMMV and all that yada.

[MikeERideWNC]

Unfortunately, I have spent thousands of miles in the rain...
I have videos of my stupid a$$ riding in the rain. Nothing like being hundreds of miles from home.


I have never had this happen on a bike.

[roadie]

used some goo away...Lowes didn't have Gum out...worked.  Heated grips and throttle master installed.  Thanks for all the comments on this thread.

[So Cal Joe]

I have always used hair spray also, been in rain snow and about ever kind of down pour you can think of and never had any trouble with the grips coming loose.

[Conrad]

I've always used compressed air, no problemo.

[TimmyG]

Last time i changed grips i used this stuff call "grip glue" dealer had packets on the counter for like .50 cents

[RedBombardier]

I have always used hair spray also, been in rain snow and about ever kind of down pour you can think of and never had any trouble with the grips coming loose.

Same here, but I guess the possibility exists if it is true water turns hairspray into snot.  I don't know... maybe I will consider an alternative.  I am curious if a handgrip ever came off using hairspray...?

[MAN OF BLUES]

the reason I posted nix on Aqua Net was exactly from personal experience, not conjecture.
I believed an old phart that told me to use it....
I spent many years on big Enduro class/style bikes, and rode consitantly off road and on in wet, wet WET muddy conditions, I have had grips displace, twist, and pull off on numerous occasions, one of which was on a downhill ski jump,on my KX450 while in the lead at a rainy muddy regional moto x race, dropping off downhill approx 100 feet....upon landing BOTH grips shot off......I turfed badly. Came up off the ground still holding the grips. That was THE last time I used hairspray....1975.

suit yourself, enjoy it.
if it happens I can bet you will never tell anyone. I'm not that poud that I won't warn someone. Same goes for using silicone spray for removing Them

[MikeERideWNC]

I am not as old school as you, but we always safety wired the grips on.

I still do it to some of my street bikes. My VFR800Fi has had the same safety wire on the grips since new in 2000.

However, I have the actual heated grips on my C-14.
I had to hammer them on and I hope I never have to cut them off. That is the only way they will be coming off.