A handlebar assembly incorporates an apparatus for portable radio reception into a right and left bulbous housing element, one of which may house the portable radio apparatus and both of which house speaker devices. The bulbous housing elements serve as handgrips on a set of handlebars, such as those on bicycles and have disposed on the upper surfaces thereof, speaker grilles for the emitting of sound therefrom with at least one of the bulbous housing elements containing control members for switching and tuning of the portable radio apparatus.