How to Wrap Your Bars Like Grant Petersen

The latest post on the Rivendell blog features an in-depth guide on how to wrap your bars like Grant Petersen. Though the “blahg,” written by Grant, contains a series of other gems that include musings on affordable bikes, a unique California license plate, and conspiracy theories about SRAM’s desire to kill the front derailleur, the last portion of their November blog features his latest cycling preference: felt grips. Detailed by Grant in the photos, he says, “I am in my ‘felt grip’ phase of life, and I won’t get out of it, and I wish I’d started it decades ago. Apparently not for everybody, vive la difference, say what you will etc, but for me but probably not Donald Trump, my ultimate lovely bicycle grip is below, and here’s how I do it.”

He goes on to address the issue of moisture by saying, “YOU MUST be thinking they get soggy in the rain and stay that way for days, and what a sick joke this all is. They can get dank. That I concede. Soggy, NO. Cold when wet, No. And and aaaand…they’re the cheapest elite-class grips you can buy, but you kind of half to make them. This came up today, because somebody with a build going on here requested Grant grips, and either I’ll do them or, failing that, Mark or James or Antonio will, and I wanted to give them the recipe.”

Grant goes into greater detail on alternative methods and provides specifics on whether these will be available on customer builds moving forward. Always eclectic, the “blahg” is and remains an interesting read for anyone who is in, around, or even marginally adjacent to bikes.

For more on how to wrap your bars like Grant Petersen, check out the blahg here.

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