Bar Snake - anti-vibration product

[JackFlash]

Has anyone used a product called, "Bar Snake",

to reduce handlebar vibrations?

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[Dizzledan]

Check out the reviews here:

http://www.holeshot.com/old/barsnake/reviews.html

Basically a solid rubber tube that you grease up and stick in the handlebar hole. I don't know if that would really dampen vibration as much as buckshot or some rubber bushings where the bars mount, but I have no idea how those things work.

Let me know if you're interested in some bar snake oil; I've got a spare jug of turn signal lube too...

[JackFlash]

Let me know if you're interested in some bar snake oil; I've got a spare jug of turn signal lube too...

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Muffler bearings. I need muffler bearings.

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[serpentracer]

and dynabeads...(those are real)

[Pokey]

Fill your bars with some birdshot, that will surely rub serpentracer the wrong way.

[ReconRat]

Any node of vibration can be dampened by adding weight in a particular place that will null the vibration.

Translation, adding weight attached to the handle bar at either the middle of the bar (between clamp and bar end), or at the bar end, can reduce vibration. The exact position and amount of weight is usually a guessing game, but it can be done. Aircraft mechanics and engineers fix hydraulic lines that like to break, by doing exactly this. Sometimes just adding a U clamp and moving it around to experiment, will do the trick. Another way is to add an extra brace across the center clamp, that supports the bars left and right about half way out.

I added slightly heavier bar ends to dampen vibration. Hard to test, since there is a specific RPM that will excite the harmonics.

I have nice after market mirrors, but they vibrated. They shouldn't have done that. I took them off, and added rubber washers and o-rings all over the place. Problem fixed.

There's lots of tricks, just have to find one that works.

[Pokey]

Any node of vibration can be dampened by adding weight in a particular place that will null the vibration.

Translation, adding weight attached to the handle bar at either the middle of the bar (between clamp and bar end), or at the bar end, can reduce vibration. The exact position and amount of weight is usually a guessing game, but it can be done. Aircraft mechanics and engineers fix hydraulic lines that like to break, by doing exactly this. Sometimes just adding a U clamp and moving it around to experiment, will do the trick. Another way is to add an extra brace across the center clamp, that supports the bars left and right about half way out.

I added slightly heavier bar ends to dampen vibration. Hard to test, since there is a specific RPM that will excite the harmonics.

I have nice after market mirrors, but they vibrated. They shouldn't have done that. I took them off, and added rubber washers and o-rings all over the place. Problem fixed.

There's lots of tricks, just have to find one that works.

I added a washer between my bar ends and bars on my C14, made a for sure positive difference in the vibrating harmonics.

[psyco1]

I put BB's in my KLR's Pro Taper bars and that seemed to reduce it a bit.

[JackFlash]

I added a washer between my bar ends and bars on my C14, made a for sure positive difference in the vibrating harmonics.

I think I'll give that a try after my bars show up.

 

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