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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 04:05 AM
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Anyone fitted these hand grips to their bike? Part no. 56459-08 - Contoured Chrome and Rubber

Need some opinions before I go out and buy them.

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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 03:25 AM
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I had those on for a while. Comfortable but the end caps are just plastic and pop off easily. I knocked one off by accident one time and found that out.
 
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 05:01 AM
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Yeah, I started to get those, but they just weren't all that. I wound up getting the "Chrome and Rubber" large grips. The dealerships around here install things like that for free when you have your bike in getting serviced. I take advantage of that as it helps ease the sting of the service cost.
 
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They are nice,both of my parents run them ,thought about them myself.
 
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i have them on my fatboy lo not bad but the chrome ends turn alot i hope to change them nexet summer ..
 
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I looked at those along with performance machine contour grips. I then found Avon air cushioned grips, which is what I went with and they're great. I think I paid $43 for them. easy install.
 
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Old Oct 20, 2011 | 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by StreetGeezer
I had those on for a while. Comfortable but the end caps are just plastic and pop off easily. I knocked one off by accident one time and found that out.
Hi there
Could you "Silastic" these in place after installation to stop it happening?

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Originally Posted by conmore
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Anyone fitted these hand grips to their bike? Part no. 56459-08 - Contoured Chrome and Rubber

Need some opinions before I go out and buy them.

Cheers
I put them on last winter, I liked the feel, in less than 1 year and about 10K miles, the rubber started getting gummy and wearing off, just replaced them with PM grips of a similar style, the PMs are 1.400", about .100" smaller diameter but they feel pretty good to me. Bonus is just replacing the $15.00 rubber inserts when they wear out, and all metal constuction as opposed to the chrome plated plastic HDs and Avons.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PM-Performan...item3a6368eff9

http://www.performancemachine.com/Ca...px?display=394

I wouldn't recommend the HDs, when for $20.00 more you can have these, just my experience though maybe they worked better for other folks.
 
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Go to the electrical supply store an get so heat shrink tubing of the correct size to go over the grip and install with a heat gun. I did this to my heated grips that were sticky and the rubber turned my hands black three years ago. No problem so far.
 
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