Normally I'd just slice them off… but there's no way I'm doing that to these bad boys:

So I need to get the grips off undamaged, how can I do it? I've tried heating with a hairdryer, thought warming them up might make it easier, but no joy 🙁 Is there a special trick I can employ?

cheers 🙂

Hairdryer will just make the rubber tacky. Spoke down the inside and some gt85.

ditto but hairspray – won't need to be cleaned off.

Move the gripshift and brake lever as far toward the stem as you can. As above use a spoke or chopstick to get under the grip. Use the straw on a GT85/WD40 to get up with the spoke. Squirt and work round under grip. Generally by the time you get half wayround it should come free.

Always worked for me. Pre-lock grips.

cheers chaps, knew there had to be a secret method! shall crack on with it and see how I go 🙂

assuming you've not stuck them with evostick or simelar adhesive…

undo the gripshift andf slide away from the grip a little.

turn the bike on its side prise the grip away from the bar a little and pour some weak washing up liquid between grip and bars. wiggle around a bit with a blunt screwdriver/spoke etc – twist off grip.

success! thanks guys 🙂 in the end brute force was used to roll them off (after moving the shifters and brake levers down the bars as suggested). now to figure out how much to sell the set for!

blow compressed air down the side from an air line, works for putting them back on also.

Hairspray, Plus it sticks them back on when you replace them again, GT85/WD40 does not do this. All good spanner men have hair spray in their tool box

+1 for compressed air, assuming you have a compressor