Hi Everyone,
I posted the thread on the UK Deauville owners site (by the way, I'm on this site quite a lot as I love looking at your photos in the US, but haven't really posted!) I bought the 'French Travel edition' lowers from ATH Distribution in France, they are definitely still in business and are producing the lowers. They probably would send to the US, the cost for the lowers are very reasonable (by UK standards!) and each one is hand laid up to order.
Mine arrived 2 weeks after ordering (they insisted I didn't pay until it was ready to ship - paid by paypal) and was very sturdy, very good hand built quality.
It did need a fair bit of rubbing down to remove mould marks and a bit of filling to make it perfect for spraying, but for the price it is excellent value and looks like it was factory designed.
The only minor issue is that Jean-Claude (who I dealt with) doesn't speak English, my French is basic so had to use a friend to translate and send emails, babelfish etc doesn't seem to work when you're trying to talk about technical things in another language.
If NT owners in the US were interested in this, it may be worth one of you to get one shipped over, and perhaps use it to make a mould for copying, after all that's what ATH have clearly done with the original Honda unit!
All details can be found in my post here:
http://www.deauvilleuk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=18971