Bar end weights?

[Eft37]

I cam across a site selling scooter handlebar end weights, used to dampen vibration (and bling it out a little).
Anyone have experience with these?

[808BMW]

Weighted bars will help to make it more solid feeling (you can put BB's in something and stuff them in the bars too).

I don't really care about the weight, I just like bar ends because they save your grips (and hopefully levers somewhat) if you drop your bike.

[eliteguy50]

no experience with these on a scooter (cant feel any vibration on scooters) but I did use weights on my HD. it was a 'pre rubber mounted engine' model. I think I used 12ga. deer slugs stuck into the bar ends. they worked great...its just a mass dampener...mentioned in any first year physics class.

[Kenny_McCormic]

You lose power with rubber mounts.

[wiguy05]

no experience with these on a scooter (cant feel any vibration on scooters) but I did use weights on my HD. it was a 'pre rubber mounted engine' model. I think I used 12ga. deer slugs stuck into the bar ends. they worked great...its just a mass dampener...mentioned in any first year physics class.

I can only imagine if you laid the bike down and the primer went off? Yikes!

[eliteguy50]

no, I reload my own shells. I used just the slugs.

[maddog]

Bar ends are used on most motorcycles and have nothing to do with vibration.

[eliteguy50]

...have nothing to do with vibration.

bar end sliders have close to nothing to do with vibration (because they add so little mass). But bar end wieghts do lower the travel in vibration my using increased mass to use some of the kenetic energy transferred to the bars...the more mass an object has, the more KE needed to move said object.