For those looking for something a little less authentic but a very nice handlebar treatment I would recommend the Soyo grip which is still made. I have not tried the "Strong" grips also listed at the business cycles site.
http://www.businesscycles.com/
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> If frame painting is just a *****, one recent endeavour in the cycle
> preservation has been more successful from my perspective: the
reproduction
> of handlebar grips.
>
> I have been working with the Lee-Healey Co. (successor to Britannia) in
> England in remanufacturing the classic grey rubber handlebar grips used by
> Raleigh Industries c. 1949-66. I got the sample today and it's a lovely
> piece of work indeed.
>
> Anyway, these are for roadsters and "sports" bicycles and so of zero
> interest to you lot. But I also want very much to have replicas made of
the
> classic 5-inch long light grey rubber "sleeve grips" used on British club
> and racing machines c. 1949-58. These were long enough to come up to the
> brake levers. Absolutely essential for any properly fitted club bike of
the
> period.
>
> Does anyone out there have a decent original he or she is willing to lend
> me? I need to send it to England for the mould to be made and it would be
> returned although the process can take about 6 weeks.
>
> If you'd be willing to help in this endeavour, contact me privately.
Thanks.
>
> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA