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When were twist grips first used? The answer depends on how you like your history served. Taking events chronologically, and with a little lateral thinking, American Sylvester Roper may have been the first engineer/inventor to employ the concept, although not as we know it.
Roper fitted a rotating handlebar to his steam motorcycle of the late 1860s (which was really