Removing grips without destroying them.

[TieDye]

Air nozzle (blow nozzle) into the hole, cover the hole on the other one. The one with the hole covered will be the 1st one to come off. Pressure builds and moves that grip right off the handlebar. Then put the nozzle in and blow the other one off. Sometimes you have to turn the grip back and forth a bit to unstick it. It works every time.

 

[Rivnut]

Small ice pick between the bar and the grip. Insert the red tube on the WD-40 in next to the ice pick. A couple of squirts, then twist and pull on the grip. Hasn’t failed me (yet.)

 

[Gimletbikes]

Expansion with heat is the way. Full sun or heat gun. Pry them up a little, spray some Windex (or PB Blaster) up in there and start wrestlin'. If the original installer used hairspray it's going to be tough. If you can pry them up a little without splitting, I have found compressed air sometimes speeds things up (depending on how much elasticity is left in them) wear some goggles tho

 

[A.S.BOLTNUT]

When I got the grips off the chrome was nice. The grip was a real soft stretchy rubber. They probably had to be stretched to go on in the first place.. They are dead and buried now.

As @TRM stated, I myself have had good luck using the air nozzle trick.

Rafael

 

[dnc1]

Immersion in just off the boil water works every time for me.

 

[Rivnut]

My wife prefers that I leave bicycle parts out of the bathrooms and the kitchen (and keep them in my shop.)

 

[OZ1972]

The best thing I have seen is gently use a narrow flat blade screwdriver , push the screwdriver into the grip about an inch a spray a little brake parts cleaner in the grip & they twist right off , a heat gun & WD 40 works about the same

 

[Nashman]

When I worked for Schwinn we used hair-spray (aqua net), give a squirt into the grip and slide it home.
Compressed air is the best to remove stubborn grips.

Hair spray for the install is the "bees knees".

 

[Nashman]

My wife prefers that I leave bicycle parts out of the bathrooms and the kitchen (and keep them in my shop.)

Sounds like a "re-training" opportunity here. Just kidding, ( comment and picture) but if you don't break or slime anything up, leave it like you found it, what's the harm? Maybe not when she's in the tub having a bubble bath, or your pasta for dinner is draining in the sink, but it's a "once in awhile" procedure.

 

[Guest2]

I did my soapy water Visine bottle & small screwdriver trick this morning with no issues...
I like all of the different methods!