Sometimes I like to way overdo it with bike accessories and contact points are always up for refinement. I’m a dedicated LoamLab counterpunch user. I broke my pinky a few years back when I tagged a small tree with my handlebar. That sucked enough that I started running the counterpunch, meant to avoid the exact “boxer’s fracture” that I got from the tree. A couple years on and my bar ends show the wear of many scrapes on rocks and trees, probably avoiding at least one other possible fracture, and definitely saving my grips and bars during some desert bails in Sedona. Besides that, I have grown to depend on the locked in feeling of pressing my pinky’s against something, naked bar ends feel insecure now.
Buuuut, I also battle with some hand numbness, and who doesn’t battle arm pump? I put on the salsa rustler bars with 11 degrees back sweep and that helped some, but the search for expensive solutions continues and has lead me to revgrips. The concept is intriguing and the reviews seem positive, my only question is whether the rev grips are compatible with my counterpunch bar ends? The counterpunch slide into the end of the bar and tighten by pulling two wedges against each outlet to expand against the inside of the bar (picture above). Can anyone with rev grips confirm or deny if the two will work together? Thanks!
by micromacro_
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you can cut the ends of the grips off with a hacksaw.
I run PNW Loams with the counterpunch. I tried the LoamLab grips and didn’t like the amount of vibration that went into my hands.
https://i.imgur.com/OeZl4p0.jpeg
I had a similar question and sent a query to Matt
>The counterpunch needs to be inserted into the end of the bar. But people use them with all types of grips by cutting the end of the grip off where necessary. Both of my enduro athletes Rhys Verner and Charlie Murray have grip sponsors and modify them to run the CPs.
>The best way to get a nice clean and straight cut is with a table or mitre saw. But a hack saw works too.
yep it’ll work. the revgrips just slide over the bar, and the bar end is a separate part from the clamp. you can just replace the revgrips bar end with anything you want