Super comfortable grips and excellent protection, it is an awesome product.
Really happy with the grips and the counterpunch has already saved a pinky
I fought against a pine and didn't hurt my little finger. Save your little fingers! To be serious, very good product very well engineered.
Happy that all my knuckle scabs are healed up. Great quality. I would recommend them.
Hands down one of the best upgrades you can do to your bike. Far to often I would be flying around corners, slip out slightly and crash my hand into a tree. With my new brass knuckles I absolutely destroy trees without trees destroying me. They are completely as advertised. I would never ride without them.
After nearly breaking my hands a few times last year punching trees, I remembered seeing these bar ends on a Pinkbike bike check last year. I've always ran Oury grips and had planned to switch the grips but ended up just trying the grips that came with the ends. I assumed I would miss the Oury's but after 3 months the Loamlab grips are great. The Counterpunch bar ends work great and have already saved me from bashing my hands countless times. To help avoid surprise hits I did cut my bars down from 780 to 760. That did help but I still smack a tree pretty often and my pinkies are safe. I ride singlespeed and I like how these bar ends give me good leverage to rock the bike side to side when mashing climbs. These are now a must have for me.
After a bunch of hits on my pinky finger, a friend recommended these. Since installing them, they've already saved me a couple times.
I had recently broke fifth metacarpal bone clipping a tree about 10 weeks ago that required surgery. While in a cast I read about this product and decided it would be worth having just in case a accident ever happened again. This week I ended up clipping a large rock hidden by leaves causing me to tumble to previously injured side. Counterpunch guard along with POC Gloves worked great at protecting my hand. Would recommend!
Maybe I just run a little closer to trees than my friends, but as soon as I saw these, I knew they would help. I glance by trees and peg them hard from time to time, it always slowed me a bit. Now with the Counterpunch any tree contact is just a gentle skim and no momentum is lost. The singular downside I’ve found in the couple months I’ve been running them is the bit of mud collection I experienced on an insanely muddy enduro race. I never ride in mud otherwise so it’s a non-issue.
Hi all, let me start by saying that I’m only an average rider with average skill, and below average fitness lol. Been away from bikes for almost two decades got back into it last year .. and man on my local trails do I ever smash my pinkies a lot. These grip bar end combos do exactly as intended bouncing you off of the trees instead of driving your delicate digits directly into them. I really like that they are not large like my way back when bullhorn bar ends ;) they are almost imperceptible at a distance when you’ve got you hands on the bars. The rubber compound and pattern of the grips are good, they grip very well. my criticism is this, ( this is mostly my preference not a failing of the build/engineering) I find there is not enough rubber, I find them too thin, and or not enough dampening/cushioning. I like fairly large grips but I am older most grips I find are on the small/ thin side,, I will be trying the bar ends with some other grips that I feel more comfortable with as the ends are again Fantastic at protecting my fingers and keep my hands correctly positioned most of the time :) . This gives me a bit more confidence to go a little faster in the tight technical stuff I ride most often. thank you for this great option/product.
Grips are a little to hard of a compound for my liking, but the counterpunch itself is great. Makes your bars feel 10mm wider and are pretty comfortable.
I paired the bar ends with some acerbis x-elite hand guards. The combo is awesome, when any little branches or brush hit the hand guard it bends back and hits the bar end. Nothing really gets in to hit my hands. I also feel more confident taking tighter lines next to trees, not worrying about losing a pinky.
I was a bit sceptical on it at first, but, its worth giving it a shot since i have few close call with my finger.
Yeah, it works. It doesmt only protect my finger, but it also instill some confidence and in a way, improve my bike handling as well.
Quality build but too narrow for my hands. And I’d say my hands are medium size. Edges of my hands sit on metal part of the grip on both sides.
This can’t use them:/
Have had these on my bike for about a month now and really saved my hand/pinky 2x allready. Easy to set up, definitely worth the small cost
The counterpunch not only protects your pinkies when brushing a tree it gives you the confidence to squeeze through tight spaces at speed !
The grips were invisible from the start. Contacted one up before purchase to make sure of compatibility with their carbon bar and they had no issues.
Bought these to prevent breaking my baby finger every season. I’m pretty particular about my grips, but these grips acutely surprised me. Love the full set up. Highly recommended.
I bought a pair of these to save my pinkies from being smashed on trees and rock walls - and they do a great job of protecting them from damage when I get a tiny bit closer than intended to nature. The unexpected benefit comes from these helping to keep my hands in place - which in turn allows me to loosen my grip a little bit. That's not really significant in mellow terrain but when bombing down rough tracks it has helped with hand and forearm fatigue, and almost seems to offer additional control over the bars as I can sort of push outwards on them to steer or stabilize the bars. It's a very subtle change in muscle activation and recruitment, but I like it.
I liked them sufficiently to buy a set for (almost) all my bikes (no need on the DJ).
Perfect finger protection for riding and racing. These things have saved my fingers on multiple occasions!
I’ve smashed my fingers many times on east coast singletrack. These little bar ends solve that problem. I paired them with the new Wolftooth lock-on grips and they work great. Quality product and great price.
I have had that pinky finger impact more times than I care to remember. Used to be it was a long healing time with a low grade pain in the finger. I did find an acupuncturist that shortened healing to less than a month but it’s wallet draining. Took me a little while to experience counterpunch working. Always twitchy between the trees and usually don’t hit. After finally having a few hits and feeling them slide on through, it’s made me a lot less twitchy heading into narrow passes and just bashing my way through with no consequences so far. Only thing to be careful of are vines. They will hook a vine. The other thing is I have big hands and have never used such a small diameter grip. The LL grips are really great, too.
I tend to skim trees for some reason .had these for bout a month so far skimmed 1 and they worked fine .also good when you drop your bike .the rubber grips are a good choice to
prices are on point too.