Not mine, advertised on Gumtree, looks like a nice purchase for somebody...
https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/thorn-sherpa-535l-medium/1503896193?lid=ut81oyznr6tl&utm_source=braze&utm_campaign=searchalert&utm_content=Single%20SA%20Email%20(VIP)&utm_medium=email

I almost always am wearing bike gloves, they help get grip on the shifter.

I am in USA.  There is a product here called Shoe Goo that is similar to a glue, comes in a tube like tooth paste.  You can put some of that on a shoe sole to build up the sole where it wears down.

I put three beads of Shoe Goo on my shifter, mine is the second generation of shifter, round in shape.  I wanted to make it more triangular in shape.  I applied two or three layers of Shoo Goo, it shrinks as it hardens.

Photos attached.  Photos are nine years old, I am still using it the same way as shown in the photos.

I do not know if a similar product to Shoe Goo is made where you are or not.

Merry Christmas, all. May the wind always be behind you.

Would wrapping an elastic band (a big one) around the grip a few times give a softer rubber surface to hold?

BTW there are at least 2 different Rohloff grips - maybe one is better than the other when wet?

Quote from: Andyb1 on December 05, 2025, 05:35:01 PM

Obviously just me, but I can still not understand why drop bars are used when riding off road.  But then I have never tried.

I don't get it either, though I'm usually of the opinion that things I don't get are probably not aimed at me.

Oh, they're aimed at both of you, in the hope that you will accepting, compliant fashion victims. Bike marketers are not keen on rational analysis of what you'll use the bike for, nor on informed consideration of a detailed optimized specification. Instead they want you to consider first and foremost and only how you'll look on the bike.

It's just another example of how high-level road-racing bikes have perverted common commuter and other bikes with non-racing functions.

I have an outrageous example. You'd think a firm as big as Trek, which operates in virtually all the bicycle market segments, would get the pretty uncomplicated match between consumer, function and outfitting spot-on every time. Not so. Posit an upmarket bike for rich executives to commute on in societies where bicycling is expected. Trek designed and built it for the Benelux: automatic gears, active electrical suspension, and of course luxurious full outfitting. (In real life it was such a thief magnet it was more often saved as a holiday bike, a vakansiefiets.) Then their designer, who obviously had no idea of who the bike was aimed at, set the handlebars for a flat back rather than a middle-aged paunch, cut all the cables, including the computer controls for the electronic gearbox and the electronic active suspension short to preserve the sporting profile, and topped it all off a saddle that so much resembled an ax that I felt violated after riding the ten pace I went on it before throwing it off. Check the photo of the bike on the showroom floor in Belgium. Trek Benelux went the extra mile in supplying me with longer cables and other parts to reengineer the bike to be fit for purpose, and for me. http://coolmainpress.com/BICYCLINGsmover.html

It's part of what sets Thorn bikes apart: they'll give you whichever boutique parts you've fallen in love with, but their default spec is usually well suited to the bike's declared purpose and the rider's comfort -- and very pleasingly economical besides. I can't imagine a Benthamite designer like Andy Blance making the dumb mistakes that Trek designer made.