went over to micheals craft store last week and found a 1lb bag of Diamond Cubes-hot melt skillet glue, basically just hot glue sticks cut into small pieces. basically just used them to fill in the handlebar, used a ratchet handle to kinda cram them in there. to my surprise it actually worked pretty well. the bag cost under $6 so not to bad. hope this helps.

Nice,
Adjust the weight and flexibility of the bars.
I guess it ought  to put the resonant frequncey up pretty high.

Oh the old "fill sand in it" trick ... BTW you could also try that slime stuff they sell for bicycles ... Best option is though heavy bars at the right angle ... LIke my 2 weld ones ...
Cool.
Srinath.

Quote from: gs2svwent over to micheals craft store last week and found a 1lb bag of Diamond Cubes-hot melt skillet glue, basically just hot glue sticks cut into small pieces. basically just used them to fill in the handlebar, used a ratchet handle to kinda cram them in there. to my surprise it actually worked pretty well. the bag cost under $6 so not to bad. hope this helps.

bb's work well as does lead shot - I have a 2001 so it is pretty simple to take out the bar end rubber plug and fill the bars - then re-install.

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bb's work well as does lead shot - I have a 2001 so it is pretty simple to take out the bar end rubber plug and fill the bars - then re-install.

Nice.  So when you crash, it's like a pipe-bomb         :mrgreen:

Quote from: seshadri_srinathBest option is though heavy bars at the right angle ... LIke my 2 weld ones ...
Cool.
Srinath.

I have those, and he's right...solid.  

I've got the 2 welds also.. but I still get quite a bit of vibration. After about an hour and a half on the bike at highway speed my hands are pretty numb. I'll have to give the BBs or something a try...

trey

Hmm....dunno what to say...maybe my progressive fork springs(a nice little surprise I found when I was going to install a pvcv spacer) make the difference.

holy crap, can u imagine bb's everywhere?!  lol

BBs proly not a good idea if you're riding in a pack...a bar end gets knocked off after a low side, BBs fly everywhere, and the other bikes that go around you end up sliding all over the place... MAYHEM!  

Quote from: DomBBs proly not a good idea if you're riding in a pack...a bar end gets knocked off after a low side, BBs fly everywhere, and the other bikes that go around you end up sliding all over the place... MAYHEM!  

bb's and lead shot are a time honored way to change the vibrational frequency -  they offer several advantages over other methods - high mass, and the friction between the beads also absorbs some energy - Think about how bars are made -  not all that many would come out in most accident scenarios until the bike is pretty well stopped.  If you really worry about it you can just put a little silicone seal plug in the bar before you put back the bar end.

Yeah, I thought about that after I posted... I was using a hot glue gun and figured I could just plug the ends.