Answered Why have my grips become sticky?

[Beekeeper]

Hot weather?
Using washing up liquid on them?
UV rays?

Maybe they perish and need replacing after a couple of years or is there something I can do to get rid of the horrible stickiness?

 

[Gary]

Bee saliva?

 

[Beekeeper]

I’ll go with Gary’s suggestion ?

 

[Doomanic]

KY from your hands??

Why would he have KY on his hands? Straight from the tube onto the rusty sherrif's badge is the best way.

 

[Gary]

I was semi serious.
Sweat from riding gloveless kills grips quick. In the past, wasps have taken a liking to worn sweat damaged grips on older bikes in one of my sheds. The result was super sticky grips. Detergent would possibly help remove the stickiness but I just binned the grips.

 

[steve_sordy]

Anything dusty that absorbs moisture, talc maybe? Or probably better would be cat litter (before the cat gets to it of course!)

 

[Beekeeper]

I was semi serious.
Sweat from riding gloveless kills grips quick. In the past, wasps have taken a liking to worn sweat damaged grips on older bikes in one of my sheds. The result was super sticky grips. Detergent would possibly help remove the stickiness but I just binned the grips.

Start shorting shares in grip manufacturers.
Wasp numbers will fall this summer due to the severe winter frosts. ?

 

[Gary]

Anything dusty that absorbs moisture

 

[Aikone]

Ergon make a big point of their grips being made from a formulation that is extremely UV stable, I find they still wear, but they don’t go sticky.

 

[RustyIron]

Maybe they perish and need replacing after a couple of years

Time for new grips.

 

[Ziggyrags]

Try rubbing them with "Bicarbonate of Soda" powder.