Hey everyone
And welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video I'm gonna be talking about what I think is the easiest
Way to install BMX grips if you don't have access to an air compressor
So when it comes to BMX bikes one of the most often replaced parts on a bike are the grips themselves
And I honestly hold the belief that without the knowledge of a few different methods
Putting grips onto a bike can be one of the most stressful and complicated
things that you can do while working on a bike and that is simply because
Without the knowledge of a few different tricks or an air compressor
putting grips on is just
Extremely hard because they're made to stick and they're just hard to get all the way on to the bars. It can be extremely and
Unnecessarily time-consuming, but lucky for you
I've got a tip today that uses something that you likely already have in a cabinet at your house or you can pick up almost
anywhere for under $2
And that is a bottle of isopropyl alcohol this stuff dries
Extremely fast whenever it comes into contact with air which will allow you to ride your bike within the next half hour or hour
After putting your grips onto your bars
Sometimes even sooner than that
Depending upon how much you use which is extremely convenient when you don't have access to an air compressor
Or any other method for putting grips onto your bike
Now there are a few other methods like I said
But I personally think that this is the easiest and fastest way to do it when you don't have access to an air compressor
Because of course using an air nozzle is always going to be the easiest and fastest way to put grips onto your bike
but if you don't have zip ties or one of the other methods this will work extremely well and how we do it is we
Literally just take some of this alcohol put it into the grip just like this
Make sure it's in there. Maybe maybe get some of it out because you don't need that much
you just need enough to get it onto the bar and
You just slide it on there if you think you have too much
Take it off and what just let it air out this stuff dries super fast
Like I said when it comes into contact with air
so
Just pretty much do it like this. This seems to be the right amount
And you just slide it on to your bars and I feel like with the amount that I just put on here
It's going to be dry in minutes
The end of the grip is already sticking it's just by the flange which is not sticking yet
get it where you want it and
It's that simple. This is a super quick and easy tip this stuff costs less than two dollars
I think it might even be less than a dollar depending upon where you get it
Usually you'll have some of this sitting around your house and you just saw how easy it was to put a grip onto my bike
And the end of the grip as you can see here is already sticking and it's only been like 30 seconds to a minute
This should dry pretty quickly
It's going up the grip pretty fast drying out
now another advantage isopropyl alcohol is that this is the stuff that people use to clean out cuts with
So if you fall because you got to ride after putting on your grip so fast
You'll at least have something to clean out your cuts with that's gonna do it for this tip
You really just have to wait on it to dry after this as you saw it's happening super faster
You should be able to ride home most immediately
This is something you might even be able to do at the skatepark before you ride. That's how fast it works
So with that being said, thank you guys for watching if you like this video or it helps you out
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Thank you again for watching and we'll see you tomorrow. Good. Bye