Originally Posted by WizardOfBoz

I was thinking about my more limited experiences in grip application (lots of experience 40 years ago and more recently I put Ergons on my wife's bike, but they don't come off). I would say that sometimes you get plastics with a lot of plasticizer leaking out. So, while I would wash the grips with very strong detergent, and rinse really well, Joe TBM's more considerable experience supports the use of hairspray. Do that.

Joe, do you have a favorite brand that's optimally sticky?