TheWheelmen
Buy / Sell => Board for buying and selling Wheelmen goods and services. => Topic started by: DelombardR on October 15, 2018, 12:56:46 PM
-
A New Rapid needs new grips. We've been helping get a New Rapid back to rideable condition for the son of a late Wheelmen member.
Who makes replacement grips for a New Rapid?
-
Dick, Check out the new and revised Wheelmen restoration bulletin.
-
Forgot.
https://www.thewheelmen.com/sections/publications/bulletins/03a-Restoration-Data-Sheet.php (https://www.thewheelmen.com/sections/publications/bulletins/03a-Restoration-Data-Sheet.php)
Maybe my real question ought to be what shape was a New Rapid grip? Pear shaped?
I do not have access to the bike, it's someone else's and is 60 miles away.
-
The catalog states they had pear, spade, and T shaped vulcanite grips. The T grips were basically the same cigar shaped grips as the spades except they screwed directly onto the handlebars minus the metal frame that customarily was used.
-
Hello Richard
Here are some pics of grips for a similar New Rapid.
Hopefully I am posting the pics correctly .
Glenn
-
Thanks, Glenn and Craig.
-
Interesting information on grips. I must say I've never seen T grips even though I've seen hundred of High Wheels over the last 20 years, never too late to learn something new.
Does anyone one have a T grip photo they can post?
TIA
-
I had made a mold years ago to cast Columbia Double Girp right and left hand grips. If an original T-grip is located, someone should make a mold off of it to produce it as a replacement part.
Mike Cates
(760) 473-6201
cates0321@hotmail.com
-
There is a photo of the T grip in the winter 1974 Wheelmen magazine.
-
This is an original New Rapid T Grip
-
Ed Lee can make pear grips, which that bike probably had. You need to give him the thread diameter and pitch.
There are other T grips besides what Christian is showing, they can easily be made out of Delrin, to clarify what Craig has said, they actually have a hole perpendicular to the center, the bar has a hole drilled from front to back, and a shaft with special nuts goes through it to hold it on.