Campy shift lever covers on a budget?
 

Those blue rubber covers for Campagnolo Record down tube shifters are shown for $49 on ebay. Is there a low cost - but still good looking - alternative to cover those 1960s-70s shift levers? I had the Campy covers on my now-gone Galmozzi years ago and they did make grasping and shifting a lot easier.
Would like something for a new-to-me bike that has those levers.

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Rampinelli (REG) and Arregui (ZEUS) did covers which fit just fine.

In Rampinelli there are something like four to six colours. The have a dimple for the thumb.

Arregui had early and late type, early type resembles a cough lozenge and late type has a waffle pattern.

Six or eight colours were offered through the years.

Freres Huret made them in natural rubber - an off-white colour, but the opening is a bit small to accept a Campag or Zeus lever. Might be difficult to mount without tearing.

REG Nr. 341 -

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...4bc0bc2af.jpeg


ZEUS early type REF. 18 -

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...b2b08fe16.jpeg


This site shows Campag ~30USD, REG ~15-20USD & ZEUS ~20USD -

https://picclick.com/REG-shift-lever...853644215.html

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BTW - Campag were made in more than just the blue colour, although blue was the "default."

some of the other colours included white, dark green, red and yellow.

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NOS set on Ebay right now, with Buy It Now, $29.99. I should buy them myself as mine are not all that great...

Plasti-Dip?

Thanks for all those great suggestions and info! I did buy those on ebay that randyjawa pointed out. They're for a Raleigh Competition ca. 1973 that I found locally by chance just last week. It's not cosmetically good, but its ride is reminiscent of my long-ago-stolen ca. 1974 Holdsworth Super Mistral, and I haven't been this thrilled by a bike for a good long while.

What a great group of people we have here - thanks to the administrator, too.

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I feel like that, too. Different bike though. :)

I never liked those things. More than once it came off in my hand while shifting. <-- that's bad.

I did find a budget solution: 5/16" I. D. fuel line. It works very well and is very secure. I'll leave it on until the ebay real Campy covers arrive. Maybe even longer.

Three or four layers of heat shrink tube.