Freeze’s Frozen mountain bike grips were already ice-cool from the start, made from a clear rubber that let you customize the look of your cockpit by putting stickers or really anything under the grips for a personalized look. But now they just got even cooler, thanks to a genuinely unique new tool-free lock-on clamp that makes them more secure and easier to change from one design under the grip to the next.
Freeze Frozen Push On custom mountain bike grips
The idea is simple. Clear rubber grips mean you can see what’s under them on the bar.
Wrap your favorite stickers, or some motivational words on the bar.
Then, slip on the grips and ride custom!
The UV-stable Frozen grips feature a 12-sided faceted shape on the outer edge that gives something solid to hold onto and thinner ribs on the inner edge for finer grip under your thumb and first fingers.
Freeze sells the ~31mm outer diameter x 133mm long Push On clear grips for 29€ including your choice of around 20 pre-set patterned labels.
Fully customizable grips
Or for the same price, they give you the ability to upload your own graphics (png, jpg, heic raster or pdf, ai, eps vector files) for each side which they will print out and ship with your grips.
Freeze Frozen Twist Clamp lock-on MTB grips
That’s all cool, but the new Frozen Twist Clamp lock-on mountain bike grips are even cooler.
The Frozen grip shape is the same but it adds a tool-free clamp on the end, that adds 10mm in overall length. Freeze didn’t want me to take too detailed a photo of the plastic wedge in this not-final pre-production prototype, but it’s a simple system, a cross between slip fit plumbing pipes that twist-t0-lock and a conventional lock-on grip.
Check out the all-alloy prototype below…
The body of the grip gets a rigid clear recycled plastic inner element that sits on the bar with tabs that extend out at the end – molded to the UV-stable TPE rubber, not glued. There, a tapered compression wedge (I think made of Polyamide 12 plastic in final production to prevent oxidation) slides over the tabs and a matching threaded alloy ring is screwed on. As you spin the outer ring by hand, it clamps the wedge & grip’s tabs against the part preventing rotation.
All with a cleaner look than conventional lock-on grips that’s also tool-free. So no more stripped-out 2.5mm lock-on clamp screws. And you can more easily swap the custom look of your Frozen grips with new stickers in just a few seconds now.
Win, win.
Frozen Twist Clamp lock-on – Pricing & availability
The new Freeze Frozen Twist Clamp lock-on grips sell for 49€ with silver, black, or gold anodized aluminum Twist Clamps. The grips are being produced right now in Germany. You can per-order them now, but they will ship in around 2-3 weeks.
