DYING from Vibration
Former Sponsor
Joined: Feb 2009
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From: Las Vegas
The web site needs work but is functional. These things work great for handle bar vibration cancellation. They are not perfect, they don't remove all the vibration just the nasty stuff that makes your hands tingle. If they don't work for you there is a 30 day money back guarantee. The technology was morphed from high end helicopter anti vibration devices.
Brian
Tourer
Joined: May 2008
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From: Warren, Ohio
Marblehead: When I ride my mountain bike (rarely anymore) I use gel padded gloves. They have half finger or full finger gloves. I use them when I ride my sporty, plus they give me a better grip on the bars. Here is a link to bike nashbar: http://www.nashbar.com/bikes/TopCate...41_-1_200275_N
Ultimate HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Roswell, NM
Your vibration at Highway speeds is normal and probably caused by the high RPMs that you have to do to keep up at those speeds. The stock 883 Sportsters have a 27 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley on them and the stock 1200s have a 29 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley on them. For about $150.00 you can buy a 29 Tooth or even a 30 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley from Harley and after it is installed on your bike your RPMs will drop so that at about 80 MPH or so you are only doing about 4,000 RPMs or so and that should help out a little bit with the vibrations. I also put on those older fatty squishier foot pegs too and boy are they nice. You can try to find them at smaller independent motorcycle shops that do work on HDs as many people throw them away and put on different foot pegs for the looks! I picked up about 6 sets of these types of foot pegs for free and all I did was to ask the local shop about them and they gave them to me because nobody wanted them. Go figure? Anyway, I hope this information addresses your issues and ride safe. 
Road Warrior
Joined: Nov 2008
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From: Simpson County Kentucky
Your vibration at Highway speeds is normal and probably caused by the high RPMs that you have to do to keep up at those speeds. The stock 883 Sportsters have a 27 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley on them and the stock 1200s have a 29 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley on them. For about $150.00 you can buy a 29 Tooth or even a 30 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley from Harley
Elite HDF Member
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Templeton California
Here's a few more ideas for ya; the longer your bars are the more vibration you'll get IE. drags vibrate less than apes.So if you can get away with shorter bars you might want to look at that. Then if you want to try some home remedies you can fill your bars, hopefully there not internally wired, with BBs, lead,concrete, whatever, the idea is to make them heavier.There's also a product called a Bar Snake which works on the same principle.There are assorted grips with foam or gel to isolate your hands from the vibration.
Grand HDF Member
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: Boise Idaho
The vibes are normal, get a better pair of gloves and wear thicker socks. You can also get a heavy inserts the go it the ends of the handlebars that help dampen the vibrations.
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Road Master
Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Redondo Beach, California
Yes. You can change out your stock rear Pulley to a rear Pulley with less teeth but the rear Pulley is more expensive to buy compared to the Trans Pulley and they both have the same effect of lowering your RPMs at Highway speeds. There are several companies that make after market rear Pulleys and Trans Pulleys, but I will NEVER buy another all-aluminum Trans Pulley again. Mine sheared the teeth out that connect to the splines on the Transmission shaft after about 30,000 miles or so and left me stranded. Shorter Handlebars and stuffing things inside the Handlebars really only changes the frequency at which the Handlebars vibrate and it really does nothing to address the issue of the foot peg buzz either. Balance Masters make some products that are supposed to help reduce vibrations, but I have not used their products and so I cant recommend them to you. Good luck with your project and ride safe.
Oh, and Gunner, the Mod in the middle was playing footsies with me during the photo shoot and wanted a ride afterwards. Of course I was only too happy to oblige the little ladys request.
Oh, and Gunner, the Mod in the middle was playing footsies with me during the photo shoot and wanted a ride afterwards. Of course I was only too happy to oblige the little ladys request.
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Stage III
Joined: Feb 2009
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Dying less
Well well.. Looks as if the vibration is here to stay. However it looks like I have some dampening options instead of wet towels. I am going to do the squishi foot pegs, foam grips,risors & Vibranators. That should keep me busy for awhile before I get more invasive. I will let you know how it comes out. Hopefully I won't have to change all the bolts to metric
Marblehead
Marblehead
