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Wolf Tooth Parts provides 9 new colours of their fashionable Echo Lock-On Grip this week. The Echo is a vibration-damping grip that we lined final autumn when it locked-on. It’s a gentle, performance-oriented grip that retains you each cozy and in management on tough trails.
Wolf Tooth says these grips are supposed for all-mountain… get it, all mountain bike driving… from XC to DH racing. They use a gentle, cheesy rubber for the grip space that’s “locked” to the handlebar utilizing a standard anodized aluminum collar.
The Echo Grip’s alternating diagonal sample gives constructive grip and confidence whereas protecting the rider’s fingers in place. Wolf Tooth says they grips work effectively with or with out gloves, and no matter climate or path situations.
The Echo Grips are appropriate with all normal 22mm mountain bike handlebars, alloy or carbon.
Now, together with the already obtainable black colour that nearly appears boring on reflection, there are 9 new colours to select from.
Wolf Tooth Echo Grips 9 New Colours
Pink
Inexperienced or Gray
Blue or Orange
Purple or Purple
Teal or Yellow
Throughout prototyping, Wolf Tooth extensively examined three totally different rubbers of various softness and in the end selected 20A durometer rubber ultimately. In actual fact, that gentle rubber offered wonderful vibration damping and is definitely compressed, whereas additionally being fairly sturdy, hopefully offering many seasons of driving.
The middle of the grip options distinctive stripes in a single path, whereas the internal and outer ends characteristic alternating stripes molded into the grip, a design to “forestall fingers from transferring away from the middle of the grip”.
So as to add to the Echo Grip’s nice aesthetic, so that you don’t overlook who made them... the phrases “Wolf” and “Tooth” are molded into the left & proper grips, respectively.
The Echo Grips are 132mm lengthy with a 32mm put in diameter. Their ends are open and the included plastic bar-end plugs are used to complete the set up. Open ends are appropriate with Wolf Tooth Anodized Bar Finish Plugs and Wolf Tooth EnCase System multi-tools, in addition to finish cap plugs, instruments & tubless tire plug methods from a number of different producers.
The anodized aluminum collar secures the grips to your bar by utilizing a 3mm hex wrench. These collars are machined in-house at Wolf Tooth in Minnesota, and obtainable in eight totally different colours to match different Wolf Tooth anodized parts and equipment.
Wolf Tooth Echo Lock-On Grip – Pricing & availability
The brand new Echo Lock-On Grips promote for $29.95 for the set, together with a pair of grips, black alloy lock-on clamps, and a pair of plastic bar finish plugs.
They’re obtainable now in these new colours – pink, inexperienced, gray, blue, orange, purple, crimson, teal & yellow – plus the unique black grips that get one among 8 totally different coloured anodized clamps. Get yours by visiting your native bike store or by hitting the hyperlink beneath.
