I wonder about these. I live in a tight place (the tweed valley) where bar to tree contact is a real fear and have broken pinkies in the past but I also crashed hard last year and took a handlebar end to lower abdomen and groin.
I had DMR death grips on at the time which have a generous amount of soft rubber on the end and even so did some soft tissue damage and had a bruise the size of a grapefruit for weeks. If I’d been on these I don’t know what would have happened but I think it would likely have been a lot lot worse. Solid metal end with a poky bit (even small) doesn’t feel that safe to me
July 13, 2022, 1:32 p.m. - Neil Carnegie
I wonder about these. I live in a tight place (the tweed valley) where bar to tree contact is a real fear and have broken pinkies in the past but I also crashed hard last year and took a handlebar end to lower abdomen and groin. I had DMR death grips on at the time which have a generous amount of soft rubber on the end and even so did some soft tissue damage and had a bruise the size of a grapefruit for weeks. If I’d been on these I don’t know what would have happened but I think it would likely have been a lot lot worse. Solid metal end with a poky bit (even small) doesn’t feel that safe to me