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Old 04-09-12, 12:59
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Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
Hi Chris, I had the very same problem before on a Honda Transalp fitted with Oxford heated grips, the garage had used their own glue which was supposed to be brilliant, but as soon as it went to the third setting or heated up enough the grips started twisting about F**kin useless, anyway ive just put Roxter heated grips on my Z and i used the 'super glue' that came with it and ive had no problems whatsoever, i would heat them up and remove them with a small thin blunt ended screwdriver to assist which you probably wont need, clean the bars up and score them to give the glue and rubber something to key/adhere to and use the superglue, line everything up as when these go on you have less than 2 seconds to make any minor movements before they set rigid.
Steve
cool idea, however is there any way of doing it without gluing them to my bars? for example incase I want/need to replace the bars at any point?

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Chris
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