Hot Grips

I'm gonna put some on my bike. They are the ones that are grips and replace the ones on the bike.......

My question is are the orginal ones on the bike glued on, becasue I don't want to cut them off, more prize them so that I have the orginal grips should I need put them e.g if the hot grips fail. Cheers.

[dyzio]

this should help...
You should be able to get your grips off, just take it easy... I didn't

[northwind]

If you have access to compressed air, you can just float the grips off, takes about 2 seconds. You can do this with an aerosol of compressed air but it doesn't work so well.

Wedge a flatblade screwdriver down along the length of the grip carefully, spray some WD40 down it and wiggle the screwdriver around - taking care not to damage the grip,

Take the screwdriver out and the grip should wiggle off much easier!!

Just make sure to wash the clip on before putting the heated grip on otherwise you'll be left with a greasy pole!

Degreaser or petrol work well here,

Thnaks for advice guys......

Well it turned from a simple job into something that ****ed me off. The grips came off okay, no problem, got the power cable sorted as well.

Right I couldn't get the tank off, no matter what I tried. First bolt came off a bit of struggle, the second just wouldn't move no matter what. I went to halfords and got some allen key heads to go on the end of wrench, they wouldn't moove it either.

So I called the bike shop and explained what had happened, long/short version. Taking the bike to the shop tomorrow, so they can take the tank bolts and replace them both, becasue I can't get them off. Bugger. It took the best part of 2-3 hours dam it.

Well the grips are on, but the throttle grip isn't returing properly either it doesn't snap back. So they can fix that as well.

Well the grips powered up and worked I'll sort the cable runs out when I get the tank tomorrow I hope. What a waste of a day tomorrow, will be got other stuff besides this.

[harvy]

Originally Posted by bluethunder

Well the grips are on, but the throttle grip isn't returing properly either it doesn't snap back. So they can fix that as well.

I belive you may have the weights on too tight.. i had this, loosened the screw, pulled out the weight a little and tightened back up... sorted in less then a minute...

I'll give it ago, but I think it wasn't snapping back without any grips, and to be honest that concered me a bit. May just let the bike shop sort it, since i'm going there any way. Did you glue your grips on?

All i did to the thottle side was remove the old, cut the lip off at the front and put the new on, thats it. Hopefully its me being dumb.

[yorkie_chris]

Have you shifted the cables while messing with it?

Also I'd definately take the extra time to put it on a switched live so when the ignitions off the grips can't draw power, know plenty people who've been caught out by this.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Have you shifted the cables while messing with it?

Also I'd definately take the extra time to put it on a switched live so when the ignitions off the grips can't draw power, know plenty people who've been caught out by this.

By that I take you mean the throttle cables? Not that I'm aware off just take one off and put another on.

These hot grips switch them selves off, when the engine is off. It would invole me soldering the grips into the ignition circuit, not sure if I want to be doing that.

I tried turing them off with the bike not running they wouldn't turn on.

[yorkie_chris]

Hmm where are they connected to? (just out of curiosity)