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its funny how you crack jokes on people's suggestions but then you suggest he tap around it with a hammer when he has already tapped the **** out of it with a screwdriver....wake up hipocrite!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-EKwyER74

ack sorry.. was not paying attention to the pic :P

maybe someone can use the method with rubber grips

 

Hell I am mesmerized by your avatar...

 

Joe, not sure if someone has already suggested this, but you may want to try the trick used to remove dents in a car. Heat the grips and bars with a heat gun then use a can of air upside down and direct the liquid (really cold) onto the bars (not the grips) and see if the bars will shrink faster then the grips and break some of it apart.

Good luck

 

wow easy cujo

 

You could also maybe use a dent puller if you could find a way to attach it to the grip with out drilling it or damaging it.

 

Joe, sorry no suggestions for the grip removal, but the idea you are going for sounds great!! Been thinking about having some things done with a brass look in powder, kinda like what you are talking about. in fact, I have emailed a few companys about having my front fork tubes done with Titanium Nitrate (nitrade) coating, then do some other parts, kinda like what your doing. Please post some pics!!! It will look bada$$!!