These ain't your 90's Bar Ends

The 90's are making a come back, and it's not just ugly fashion that's making a reappearance. As bike packing and gravel riding increases in popularity, Paul Component Chim Chims and Bike TOGS thumb over grips are bringing back the bar end, but with a twist.
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[@onewithstache3639]

3:11 You can hide your weed in there!!!

[@Whyusadd]

That’s for storing joints for sure

[@nortondlcl]

Bar ends look like mini bongs

[@BiggCliph]

Anybody know where I can find a pair of chim chims? They’ve stopped making them

[@keithkreatives]

Pricey but tempting for the Chims. Amazon sells a ton of Togs knockoffs for just a few bucks.

[@APlagueOfButterflies]

I knew there was a reason they looked like bongs. Luckily I live in a legal state so hiding stuff in like, my bottom bracket is no longer needed.

[@jarfur559]

For what they are, those Paul bars are very expensive. The biggest USP is the bulb part but I don’t see how this justifies the price.

[@IHadToMakeThisAccount]

Made in USA by a small team, not mass production overseas.

[@kumbackquatsta]

$110 for the chim chims is bit much

[@cs-hn5gb]

origin 8 has basically the same thing for 30 bucks

[@kan708]

Anyone know her IG?

[@user-cx2bk6pm2f]

I have no idea what those thumb things are or do. Less cleverness and more clarity.

[@mtbboy1993]

3:32 how to destroy hands in a crash, and how to not break as fast. But seriously I would not ride evry where at least with these due to safety concerns, but I guess they could be used in safe area. So people remember this. I haven't seen a product like this before, interesting.
But I usually just massage my hands other ways, when in safe area, but I guess this products makes it faster and easier to do so.

[@ShifTactical]

Use mine in my XC the opppsite way. It prevents my hands from ever slipping off the grips in the event my grips gives way and protects my fingers from impacts from the sides.

[@mtbboy1993]

@@ShifTactical definitely a great point, I forgot to make. I always knew that was a positive, but the only one of classic type of bar ends, but this one is made to massage the hand, which is interesting. but I use 800mm handlebars and can't go any narrower, so installing these would take up my hand position. some will need even wider bars, I see 820mm exist now.

[@sootrattlerolloff-road1415]

Well, I'm just going to say, that if bar-ends hurting you when mountain biking are what concerns you, you probably should get a road bike, or not even climb on a bike at all. Yeah, mitigate/manage risks when and where, but bar-ends actually offer more protection than the risk they create; They keep your hands on the bars when fatigue and sweat are at their worse, they offer some degree of knuckle-busting protection, depending on the style you buy, they reduce carpal tunnel and wrist strain...especially in REAL XC/endurance. They also often increase the lean options when you have no kickstand (keep a heavy rubber band or reusable cable-tie on your bars to lock your rear brake handle when you park, and the bar-ends majorly increase where you can lean your bike...against a tree, even on a hill). They also add a little extra shit to the game if you decide you want to use your bike as a weapon? Uh, yeah...tee, hee. Another negative though, can be if you are riding around/through vines...been there and done that one. Nothing more shocking than having your bars ripped from your hands. The secondary face-planting into the trail wasn't much fun either...left a perfect impression of my face in the trail, less my beard. Nah, teasing again. But seriously, it sucks - avoid vines...you should do that anyway.

[@mtbboy1993]

@@sootrattlerolloff-road1415 for knuckle protection I recently got Acerbis X-Elite hand guards.
hands falling off my grips is not an issue I've experienced, but my grips fit me, and i just rest my hands on the grip and my bike has long enough reach so my hands don't want to slip off and throw me off the bike. but my grips have a part of the grip that extends higher on both ends, this helps with that issue.

[@user-cx2bk6pm2f]

Damn. Take a break from tat work for a while.

[@pressrolls]

chim chim??? FAIL! I wouldn't buy them for that name alone....soooo lame.