Gotta love the Blue Collar solutions to problems. This one is from Ashwin’s blog. Why spend ten or twenty bucks on something when you can spend $1 and it works better?

Brake levers and sweaty fingers don’t mix. Even with full finger gloves, especially ones that have some age to them can’t grip a smooth metal lever as well as they should.

Lizard skins made some neoprene covers years ago, and I’ve tried other kinds of grip tape to no avail. This is a good solution and very cheap. Go to Home Depot/lowes or other and in the electrical section look for LINERLESS MASTIC TAPE. It is used to waterproof exterior connections. For example when you connect two coaxial cables outside, you’ll use a layer of regular electrical tape, a layer of this mastic, then more layers of electrical tape.

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