Hands On with the Deity Knuckleduster Grips
I honestly didn't think a simple set of grips could change my ride quality that much until I slapped a pair of the deity knuckleduster on my bars last season. You know how it goes—you spend thousands on a fork, tweak your tire pressure by half a PSI, and obsess over brake pad compounds, but the one thing you're actually touching the whole time usually gets treated as an afterthought. I'd been running some stock grips that were basically just hard plastic tubes with a bit of texture, and my hands were paying the price. After about an hour of chunky downhill, my pinky fingers would go numb and my palms felt like they'd been through a meat grinder. ...