The GP series offers maximum comfort and ergonomic relief for common wrist pain during cycling.
The GP series is a perfect solution for common wrist pain during cycling. In particular, the GP5 offers an ergonomic approach to wrist pain relief with its pure rubber compound and numerous options for hand positions. Further benefits of this grip are the easy-to-install clamping mechanism and approved back-friendly ergonomics. These grips are not approved for carbon handlebars.
When riding, your hands support a lot of your upper body weight on the handlebars, placing high pressure on a relatively small grip area. In many cases, this pinches the extremely sensitive ulnar nerve that runs near the base of the palm near the pinky and close to the skin’s surface, often causing numbness. The wing grip increases the hand’s supporting area by distributing pressure over a wider surface and thereby preventing diskomfort.
If your wrist is bent too much for too long, nerves, tendons, and blood vessels are compressed. The result is the carpal tunnel channel is constricted, which could damage the median nerve. The wing design of these GP grips gives the hand more support and automatically puts the wrist into a more ergonomic position, preventing numbness, tingling, and pain.
Back pain is the number one widespread condition. In a lengthy testing procedure by an interdiskiplinary panel of experts consisting of doctors, orthopedists, and physiotherapists, the back-friendly effect of the GP5 grip has now been officially confirmed.
The material used in Ergon grips meets the highest quality purity standards, is TÜV-certified, durable, and unique in the world of cycling grips. Developed using medical grade white oil as the only plasticizer. The UV-resistant rubber compound has been developed and is manufactured exclusively for Ergon in Germany. Ergonomics, product design, and engineering are all Made in Germany.
The GP Series clamping system is extremely secure and easy to mount. Each grip is tightened with only one bolt to reliably secure its position and to prevent twisting. Ergon’s aluminum clamps are cold forged and not extruded, resulting in a much stronger structure. Minimum friction and maximum comfort are achieved with Ergon’s super soft, UV resistant, durable compound and specific texture patterns.
GP Series grips are also available in different versions that are compatible with various types of twist shifters. With standard trigger shifters, both grips have the same length on both sides. The versions for Gripshift® and Dual-Twist shifters have two short grips, while Rohloff®, Nexus®, and Single-Twist shifters require the right-side grip to be shorter to accommodate the shifting mechanism.
Features:
- Tested back-friendly
- Fullsize-Bar-End
- No more numb fingers
- Lightweight barends made of glass-fiber-composite and with grippy rubber inlays deliver additional hand positions for more comfort