Applying Grips

I'm in the process of building a new stead and recently acquired some lovely bars and some soyo track grips to accompany them.
Riding home on friday night with said bars I was beside myself with glee that my bike was slowly coming together and itching to put the grips on.
How hard could it be!? I tried the washing up liquid approach, after heaving for 15 mins i only got one grip 1/3 of the way on.
I then tried the wd-40 method, at first 1/2 the grip slid on but after 30 mins of pushing and a hernia, only a couple of cm followed. I was uber pissed, I cursed soyo and nitto.

With it too late to get hairspray I drowned my sorrow with a nice glass of whisky (nothing special, Grant's).
WAIT A MINUTE!!! I poured the whisky into my grips with a mindless conviction and tried them on the bars - 20 seconds for each grip it took me, 20 seconds!

Now not only do my bars look lovely but they smell great too. Next time im going to use a 14 year single malt for better application.

Ha ha, i know what you mean.

You should see the rock hard tight grips ive got on my bars, it took me a few days to get them on with copious WD40. With any regular grips theyd be coming loose, but these are fixed like iron.

Hairspray is great most of the time, and helps glue grips in position when dried too.

Whats this new bike you have?

whiskey can fix anything.

I usually just use a fine layer of spit.