mcatrophy
Privileged to ride a 2018 FJR1300AS
I recently bought some new winter weight gloves 'cos my old ones were no longer rain proof.
These new gloves I found didn't grip the throttle as well, and I had to squeeze harder to hold it open. After an hour or so, my hand was suffering somewhat. I've already done the spring release, so I wanted another way to ease the strain.
Having worked out that it was the squeezing that was hurting, what I wanted was a way of increasing the friction between my gloves and the grip. I came up with a 2-minute, tuppenny solution.
I got an old inner tube, cut a length from it about 1cm (3/8 inch) wide, and about 40 cm (18 inch) long. This I wound round the grip in a spiral, stretching it a little, and secured in place at each end with a plastic tie, cutting off extra length.
Couple of piccies:
Underside, showing plastic ties:
Obviously needs engineering a bit better, but so far it's worked well, easing the strain on my hand. It also doesn't affect the grip's heating (quite important when it's only a degree or so above freezing).
These new gloves I found didn't grip the throttle as well, and I had to squeeze harder to hold it open. After an hour or so, my hand was suffering somewhat. I've already done the spring release, so I wanted another way to ease the strain.
Having worked out that it was the squeezing that was hurting, what I wanted was a way of increasing the friction between my gloves and the grip. I came up with a 2-minute, tuppenny solution.
I got an old inner tube, cut a length from it about 1cm (3/8 inch) wide, and about 40 cm (18 inch) long. This I wound round the grip in a spiral, stretching it a little, and secured in place at each end with a plastic tie, cutting off extra length.
Couple of piccies:
Underside, showing plastic ties:
Obviously needs engineering a bit better, but so far it's worked well, easing the strain on my hand. It also doesn't affect the grip's heating (quite important when it's only a degree or so above freezing).
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. But as I said, it does need better engineering, this was just to try the principle. And it works well for me.
