At 9:37 AM -0700 1/23/05, Michael Wilkinson wrote:
>My early 80's Erickson has some foam grabons which are really wonderful but
>the feller I bought the bike from has the levers set too low for my taste.
>Is there anyway to safely remove the grabons w/o detstroying them?
I use rubbing alcohol. I generally imject it near the middle of the grip with a hypodermic syringe, but it can also be insinuated into the ends if you pry the ends open with a thin screwdriver, drip it in, and keep twisting to distribute the alcohol.
Alcohol is also my one of favorite lubricants for installing them
(hair spray being the other.)
>Or does anybody know if they are still being made or available?
>
We stock the genuine article, see:
http://sheldonbrown.com/
(scroll down a bit.)
There are lots of inferior knock-offs available, but they're generally a much softer, flimsier foam, not as comfortable and far less durable than the real thing.
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Newtonville, Massachusetts
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