I love to teach my son how to ride and repair stuffs the old fashion way. Here I will share some of our cheap DIY projects and repairs. I will also share some of my experience as a biker and as a pro mechanic. I am not a mechanic anymore but I still do repairs but mostly for my own machineries and this is why I try to keep everything easy and cheap. I also don't race anymore but I still love riding up the mountains where there is little or no help and all I can rely on is my small tool pouch and my monkey repair skills to bring me home whenever my bike or my friends bike breaks down.

If you are a tech-wiz or some kind of high-tech repair guru who likes spending too much $$$s buying stuffs and spends most of your time at a coffee shop posing your best biker battle gear clown costume and talking how great a biker you are then THIS IS NOT FOR YOU... Here we seriously ride our bikes and we try to keep everything simple, easy and cheap. Most of what I will share here are intended for riders who usually break their bikes to peices and may not be needed by other bikers.

I will also be sharing some cheap ways how I repaired my cars and computers. And for laughs, I will also add some weird / funny / odd stuffs that I or we did that worked and didn't work. Sorry about this blog's style, set-up or whatever you may call it, I'm an old school biker and its easier for me wrenching cars and bikes than typing on my keyboard...

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Handlebar Sure Grip

If you jump and do tricks a lot this may be for you... I apply rubber cement on the grips and taped them with transparent tape to keep constant pressure on the rubber. I also use plastic straps for additional pressure. Let it stay there for 6 to 8 hrs before you use your bike. You can also use very thin wires for your grip but if you do the glueing properly, you won't be needing wires... Remove the tape and the plastic straps before you use your bike. If the grips are sticky because of the tape, use detergent and wash off the glue. Now you are ready to FLY!!!

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