This set of Tank Grips Gripper for adventure motorcycles are applied to the sides of the fuel tank. They protect your shiny paint against wear but are also specifically designed to enhance grip and thus, control.
You control a motorcycle with your legs, not with your hands. Driving schools kept repeating themselves over and over but you wouldn’t believe them.
It has now been proven that it’s actually your knees and legs that ‘throw’ your motorcycle into the bend. More than you hands. Especially when you’re – it doesn’t hurt to dream – standing on your pegs, steering your adventure bike through the Canadian wilderness. Oxford developed these Tank Grips Gripper with that exact thought in mind. Stability, control and trust emerge when you apply these Tank Grips. If you’re sliding from side to side, back and forth in your saddle, you’ll never enter a bend the way you should.
You stick them – simple, 3M – to the sides of your fuel tank, where you feel you need them. They are supplied standard (in pairs, left and right) in a sort of sharply-designed tear-shape made of silicon about 3mm thick.
You apply them once and once should do. Look before you leap is wise advice in this case. Once applied, they are intended to stay on in all circumstances, so starting to doubt yourself mid-process won’t lead to the best results.
After that, you can rest assured: oil, chemicals, temperature fluctuations, standing upright while riding, unforeseen collisions with crossing deer or rocks bouncing up from the Dalton Highway, you’ll have a lot less to worry about. At least, with regards to the paint on your tank. That deer might cause issues elsewhere.
This Tank Pad Gripper for adventure motorcycles fits – where else – perfectly central between the Tank Grips Gripper.
