Or some industrial heat shrink. A supply company. Not thay cheap Home Depot stuff. Comes in many colors. Jut take the ends off the bar, and slip the pieces over the existing foam. It won't be foamy feeling, but will give good grip. Just another idea...

Jacked up bar in all its original glory.

It was pretty easy to tear off the foam. Glue was basically brittle and falling off.


Wilson tennis over grip was about $7 or something. It comes with 3 per package. I used one of each (one grey, one red).


There is a little offset curve on the inside of the bar near the depower line. I cut this to wrap around near there


The finished inside bit (before I wrapped over this).



The finished red wrapped side (before taping)



I ended up taping both the inside (black electrical) and the outside (white tape that came with the wrap).



And the finished product. I think it looks nice. I just hope it's durable. Will update after some use.

Looks good bro!

Looking good. Did the over-grip have enough cushion to it like the original?

nice stuff !

Nice... Good stuff

It's pretty thin, but I didn't want too much padding. I can always add more later.

First day out. Worked like a champ (landboarding). One BIG lesson learned. Next time, wrap from the outside in. I wrapped from The inside out towards the ends. Since you typically "pull" on one end of the bar or the other, you want the ridges to be facing towards the outside of the bar. I could see accidentally rolling up some of the edges the way I did it. Otherwise, it seems perfect.

Had it two days in the water and it held up fine. Wish I had wrapped it the other way, but it's a minor annoyance. Dried out pretty quick, too. Seems like a solid $14 / 3.0 solution.

Pulled out the bar today and it was split in a couple of spots. Apparently the tennis over grip doesn't like getting wet then drying out. I might try that rubber bar solution next.

That's what I figured would happen

Just saw this on another site. Foam replacement tutorial: http://upkites.blogspot.com/2013/12/grip-de-la-barra-como-ca...

The foam kit: http://www.upkites.eu/epages/64436211.sf/es_ES/?ObjectPath=/...

Quote: Originally posted by rtz

Just saw this on another site. Foam replacement tutorial: http://upkites.blogspot.com/2013/12/grip-de-la-barra-como-ca...

Google Spanish -> English translated version of "GRIP BAR How to change it?" article:

http://tinyurl.com/pwdryql

ATB,
Sam

FWIW: Life would much easier if manufacturers properly treated bar grips as wear/consumable items and made bar ends removable for maintaining the bar.

Otherwise, it's like buying kites with the flying lines spliced to the kite and control handle leaders.

More from the "School of Good Enough."

ATB,
Sam

On Proletariat's bar pictured above; the head of that large rivet can be drilled off and the end removed if it's not glued on also. Just be sure to replace the rivet with one of the same size and stainless and not aluminum(for shear strength).

If you've never drilled out a rivet before; set one in something and practice on it and not the one on the bar. Don't drill through the rivet; just down far enough the head of the rivet separates from the stem.

Good example video:



Really long bike grips could be used if the inner diameter is the same:

http://flatlandfuel.com/flyfinogrips.aspx

Amazing. This new bar has a screw instead of a rivet. He mentions using to it cut the bar down if one wants a shorter bar:

(@7:50)

I like the idea of the self amalgamating silicone tape. We use a lot of it in the marine world. The tape has no adhesive. To apply
it, you unroll it while stretching approx. 3 times it's length and overlapping it. You can put as many layers as you like on top of each
other. After 45min to an hour it was welded to itself forming a solid rubbery skin. The skin can be removed by slitting and peeling off
the now solid material with no adhesive to deal with should you want to change it. Comes in a variety of colors. Rescue Tape is one of the
brands,

Yup. I ended up using that self-amalgamating tape and it works great. Again, you should wrap from the outside-in so you're not pulling on the ridges, but it's rock solid and comfy on the hands.

Let me know if you wanna see pics.

I'd like to see the silicone wrapped bar.

Apparently; this new bar is wrapped in leather. Wonder how well it will hold up in water over the long term?

Bump this video up to 1:21 to see them gluing it on:

Ask and ye shall receive

Looks real clean and the colors match with the rest of the bar.

dont forget, red on the RIGHT:evil: