Clip on Vibration Problem SOLVED!!!

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dznutz said:
There's a whole bunch of people on here who would spend a lot of money to shave off 4lbs... not add them
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True but I'm just a little guy, 5'9" 130 lbs soaking wet, so 4 lbs on my bike and I'm still substantially less than 90% of anyone out there. :)
 
Gecko said:
Hey MightyWhitey

You've created an interesting solution. Even though I replaced the stock bar ends with quite heavy rizoma mirrors, I can feel the engines vibration at resonance freq and sometimes on long trips it annoys me a little bit.

But I really don't want to put additional weight to my bike. So, here's my question: wouldn't it be another way to solve the problem if you'd stiffen the bars. E.g. by inserting a threaded rod into the bar and put it from both ends under strain using two nuts. Woudn't this increase its eigenfrequence?

Just a thought...
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I also thought about what difference that would make and I'm pretty sure it would make the vibration worse. If you think about how machinery is put on rubber mounts to reduce vibration sent to the floor same with the clip-ons the stiffer they are the better they would transfer the vibrations to your hands. That's my theory... But it's not like we can go attaching our clip-ons with rubber :p
 
Charliem90 said:
Wait. It took you *half way through* that post to remember that metal lathes aren't the most common tool to find in everyman's toolbox? :D

I had some of the symptoms you describe initially when I bought mine. But after a couple of months of getting used to a different seating position (and working to keep more weight off my wrists/hands along with a looser grip on the clip-ons), the symptoms disappeared.
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I actually think you are really on to something there. I have noticed that I tend to scoot back a little on the seat so that my knees fit just perfectly on the bike. This adds more weight on my hands. I also wear cut off finger gloves with wrist supports which keeps my wrists a little straighter which again puts more pressure on a smaller portion of my palms. I do catch myself white knuckling it sometimes when riding hard too.

Wait you don't have a lathe?! I thought it was the allen wrenches that were the extravagant tools needed :D
 
Sloopy said:
Everything on the bike vibrates. I would think that it is the frequency on the vibration may be more annoying to some than to others. Any change to the bars or weight will change that frequency. Some grip absorb some so a grip change may be beneficial.

Since perception is going to be different I would guess that not all solutions would work the same for every one. I personally never notice it and my change was more for ascetics and comfort due to grip change.
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That's very true, I find that the stiff seat that many people complain about doesn't bother me at all and the number one issue of heat doesn't bother me in the slightest. But for some reason the vibration annihilates me. I just picked up those thin foam pads that go over the grips I'm going to try those in combo with both sets of barends just to see what difference it makes.
 
Yo mighty...

Ya know that option you can click on next to "quote"....well you can select multi so that u can quote multiple posts all in one. You can get your post count up in other ways :)

Just givin u a hard time.
 
double0 said:
Lol @ some folks whining about 4 pounds of weight. Who knows how many of the members out there could probably afford to lose that weight from their own diet. It's not rotational mass. Nobody will notice that difference. I agree that the initial problem was probably somewhere else but adding this weight isn't a big deal. If the added 4 pounds of heavier wheels then that would be different.
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The Ducati Panigale is probably the lightest standard superbike on the road. It just sounds a bit silly to add weight on a bike which had so much effort put into it from design to production to be as light as possible (one of the reasons why the Panigale is so expensive).

I am one of those people who work on reducing her weight even further and save weight wherever I can, sprung and unsprung.

However each to his own... As pointed out above dieting can also be a solution, then you can buy a Harley and when you are on your bike you can still compete with a Panigale weight wise. :p
 
Interesting, I think I would be interested in a set. I tend to do several long trips annually and it would def help calm down the vibz.
 
thats so MacGyver....
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I like your enginuitive thinking.. Ive got carpal tunnel from years of commercial fishing and the ONLY time I have any issues is when I'm on longer strait line trips on my bikes, and thats all bikes I've ever had, inlines, singles, Vtwins, Ltwins, and paralell twins... I have to throttle with my left hand and tap my fingers on the tank for maybe 15-20 seconds every maybe 1/2hr to get the feeling back in them, sounds a little worse then it really is and it doesnt happen in the twisties.. I have CRG bar end mirrors so I'm not sure how something like this would work or if id end up w some 6" phallic symbol sticking out of my clip-ons.. My condition may not even be treatable in terms if motorcycle riding. It does make me think tho. Question: from an engineers perspective how would your weights affect the perpetual effect of a tank slapper, seems to me "if" you were to have one the bars momentum would increase as opposed to bars with less bar end weight?

Oh mother! Just realized this was an ancient thread... Late to the party again....
 
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Taking weight off a bike in the right places is great and all... Don't get me wrong, i am an advocate of that. But if 4lbs to provide for a worthwhile solution is an issue, go on a diet! =P
 
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I just downshift. Go faster.

If I'm really getting beat up, I just get into better shape.
 
The vibrations from the handlebar make my hands numb. I want to know if you had the same problem and if the problem was solved after you put lead weights.
thank you
 

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