I added these bar ends to my commuter bike. Loving the option to change hand position but they are bare metal, very smooth to the point of slippiness and I can feel every bump on London’s roads. What should I do?
I thought about bar taping the whole thing all-in-one and getting rid of the grip (because bar taping over the grip will be too bulky).
Or I could get a foam grip for the bar ends but it might bother my OCD that there will be a gap at the corner where it screws on the bar.
Or I could just bar tape the bar ends.
What would you do? Don’t say fit a drop bar, not there yet.
by Sharp-Thing-4008
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Gloves?
I got a set of bar ends pretty much just like this and they cleared up my hand numbness issues completely. I never put anything on the bar ends at all, leaving them bare was fine for me.
If I were to put something on them, I would probably try grips matching my other grips.
I have liked this arrangement so much that I’m thinking about replacing my bars with bullhorn bars or Velo Orange Crazy Bars, which I think would give me pretty close to the arrangement I have now.