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| There's talk about how changing the bar ends will change the 'resonant frequency' of the handlebar. My thinking is that the only thing resonating is the chunk of engine that is vibrating. Doing something to the handlebar can either dampen the vibration, or make the handlebar heavier so it will make it harder to vibrate, or both. I don't think resonant frequency of the handlebar has anything to do with it, unless it is resonating at the same point that the engine is vibrating the most. Let's say things vibrate the most at 62 mph in top gear. Mods to the handlebar won't do anything to change that. My 2¢
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I have bar end weights and filled my bars with steel shot. It is/was hard to tell if it made any real difference.
nobody rides half as well as they know how.
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| Having sensitive hands due to mild neuropathy, I suffer from ANY vibration reaching the handlebars. My current bike, a Suzuki Boulevard M50 gave me fits after a short ride home from the dealership. My first try was extra heavy weights from Manic Salamander www.manicsalamander.com accompanied by filling the bars with steel BBs. Lots of relief, but still not complete reduction of vibration. Gel palm gloves helped a lot, but fingertips still tingled. In preparation for installation of a Bar Snake, I emptied the BBs form the bars, put the weights back and took a ride. Voila, the bars are smooth as silk. It sure seems illogical to me that removing the BBs would make a difference, but it did. My Suzuki came with handlebar weights secured with rubber mounts that compressed inside the bars to hold them in. The Manic Salamander weights use a compression fitting that allows metal to metal contact at a point about 1.5 inches inside the bars. Tighten the allen bolt and the fitting expands and locks the weights to the bars. I feel this metal to metal contact is somehow important to the absorbtion or deadening of the vibration. In any event the bars are now quite vibration free and riding is pleasant again. I've spoken with the owner at Manic Salamander and he maintains that rubber mounted weights just don't work where his design does. Check out his web site for some interesting products. Ray Nielsen, in Minneapolis and going for a ride today.
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| I thought about the Manic Salamander bar-ends before. Now I'm pretty likely to get some. Thanx
Trentor
2001 Bandit 600S
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