Ergon GR2 Grips - Out of the box

The first shipment from Ergon International for the commuter team was waiting for me when we got home from the hospital last week.  Finding a package addressed to:
James Osborne
Ergon Commuter Team
was pretty nice, and I was excited to see my new grips.  Here they are straight out of the box:

As evidenced by the BioKorks, Ergon is trying to reduce their impact on our planet, and they have done a great job of eliminating plastic with their packaging.  Check out the back of the package:

The second grip is inside of a recycled cardboard box (above).  The "display" drip slides onto a cardboard tube, rather than being trapped in impossible-to-open plastic packaging.  Here are the grips side-by-side:

While most of the folks on the commuter team opted for the GP1s, or the BioKork GP1s, I knew these were going on my icebike, and I wanted to have an additional hand position on that bike, since sometimes riding through 6-8" of slushy snow is a lot of work.

These are going to really round out changes that I've made to the icebike this year.  More on that later!