This thread reminded me of a funny thing that happened to a good friend. He had grips that were slippy and twisty at the time... real bad, but he just put up with it because he couldn't be bothered to do anything about it.
One time he came up to a jump ramp and he pulled up to get more air, and plupp!... out comes the left grip still in his grasp. It was so sudden and unexpected that it flung his left arm right out wide so it looked like he was doing some marching-band trick or something. Well, you know when abrupt fear and panic hits, you always don't calculate the odds and logical possibility... you just react and try to fix the problem without any common sense at all. So my mate slams his arm back from where it came from, and defying the odds of about a million to one, his left grip jambs back in (ALL THE WAY IN) the handlebar end, a split second before he hit the ground and lands!
