Ergonomic Grips (MTB) Feedback?

[markoc]

I need a new set of grips, and am looking for something that locks on and is a little chunkier than the skinny standard Cannondale ones I have which are held on with zip ties. A couple of friends have the ergonomic style grips - one set are specialized with locking end cap, and the others are a different brand (Ergon?) with a kind of mini bar end as the end cap.

The principle of having the little palm rest seems sound, but has anyone out there used them, and are they recommended. Don't really want to drop £20 and find out they're a bit of a fad...

[stu8975]

I had the ergon gr2 grips, lasted about a week before i removed them, the palm rest gave me cronic hand pain on the outside of my hand, which was only fixed by moving the palm rest out of the way, which defeats the object of it being there, also because of the palm rest area being a lot thicker diameter and not circular, i found it slightly difficult to physically keep hold of the bars when riding singletrack at medium to fast speeds(one finger covering the brake, one finger with good grip and the other two fingers with about 70% grip).

[SkinnyBoy]

I used to love Onza Porcupines, can you still get them, I couldn't handle the ergonomic ones

[hughjayteens]

SkinnyBoy said:

I used to love Onza Porcupines, c

Were they not tyres (I had some white ones!)? Did they do a grip version?

[pdV6]

I tried the Specialized BG grips like this:

and found they just caused discomfort.

I also tried the older version of the BG grips like this:

and whilst they didn't cause discomfort as such, didn't do anything particularly special, either.

After trying Neil's once upon a time, I now have these DMR ones on both bikes:

Not "ergonomic" as such, but feel so much nicer.

[SkinnyBoy]

hughjayteens said:

SkinnyBoy said:

I used to love Onza Porcupines, c

Were they not tyres (I had some white ones!)? Did they do a grip version?

[markoc]

Were those (above) not the Porkypaws (or something similar). I had identical purple ones on my bike in the nineties when everyone caught a dose of Purple-itis. They wore out ridiculously quickly. Later followed up with a set of see through Onza Ules with Onza stickers underneath on the handlebar (check me...) which disintegrated just as quickly...

Porcupines were definitely tyres, I remember they did a white one that made white skids. Pretty cool huh?

As for the ergo grips - I'm not convinced. Will probably go for some lock on normal style on the weekend.

[SkinnyBoy]

Probably right fella, I had them on my Dynatech, and yes they wore out fiercely! Claude Crimes must have seen us coming every month! I swapped mine out for a set of Scott AT4's with Tioga mushrooms.