I purchased a set of the Avon contoured grips, aka the Performance Machine "clone" grips on ebay. These are all rubber with billet end caps. These also fall about 3/8" short of the length of my stock HD grips. The shorter length wouldn't be much of a problem except that I am running 1 1/4" bars that drop to 1" and this means moving all my controls out and leaving a gap because of the shorter distance, I hope this makes sense. To you owners of the real PM grips are they the same length as the factory grips, and are these all metal with just a rubber cover?

Thanks,
Aaron

 

I have the PMc grips on my Carlini 1.25 in bars. No gaps that I can see.

 

same thing, one cost 100 the other cost 50 you pay an extra 50 for the PM one.....

 

Thanks for the info, I think I am going to try to return mine. Are the PM grips all billet metal with just a rubber cover, or are they rubber with just metal end caps like the Avon's?

 

same ones except the PM ones say Performance machine on the end. get them on ebay cheap.

 

My PMs are solid billet with a renthal rubber grip no gap on my 1.25 bars

 

I've got the PMs on my 1.5" Carlini's and there isn't a noticable gap.

 

Mine say Performance Machine on the end caps and the rubber grips say Renthal. I love them. I am told the rubber is replacable.

 

Sounds like a field modification is needed....
get the grinder out and make them work!

 

I called the seller from ebay and they are letting me return the Avon's and they are sending me the real Performance Machine grips. He even measured them while I was on the phone and said the Avon's come up a bit short. I just have to pay the difference between the two. Good customer service he is putting them in the mail for me today.