Snapped off bar end

[kiroh]

The handlebar end weight has snapped off after my last crash and needs repairing. Doesn't look like I can fix it and the only obvious option is to glue it in with a metal repair kit.

Has everyone out there got their bar ends still on? Will the bar start vibrating too much if I just remove them completely?

In case I decide to go for new handlebars - what is the best alternative to the original Honda? Don't want them to be too wide, as I need to filter in traffic every day.

Cheers

[YEN_POWELL]

The handlebar end weight has snapped off after my last crash and needs repairing. Doesn't look like I can fix it and the only obvious option is to glue it in with a metal repair kit.

Has everyone out there got their bar ends still on? Will the bar start vibrating too much if I just remove them completely?

In case I decide to go for new handlebars - what is the best alternative to the original Honda? Don't want them to be too wide, as I need to filter in traffic every day.

Cheers

I fitted 'Enduro high' Renthal handle bars (about £35). The walls on these bars are so thick that you don't need the end weights at all, all vibration is damped out. They are as wide as the original bars including the bar weights, so you end up with your hands further apart but the bike is the same width. I love these bars and hate riding other ATs with the standard bars now.

I've even stuck a set on my DR350 now.

[jvaughan]

I have a set of Renthal Enduro High Bars to be fitted onto my AT too.
How do you fix the grips ? is there some sort of grip fix stuff you can buy ? or should I use silicon sealer ?

[Lord Stig]

One of mine fell off so I took the other one off as well. I can't say I notice that much of an increase in vibration.

Stig

[YEN_POWELL]

I have a set of Renthal Enduro High Bars to be fitted onto my AT too.
How do you fix the grips ? is there some sort of grip fix stuff you can buy ? or should I use silicon sealer ?

I used renthal grip glue. You aint 'alf gotta be quick though. I also used to wire the grips on, but was too lazy last time.

[Lord Stig]

Don't use silicon - I did (that damned plumber's brain I seem to have inherited rather than the boffin one I'm supposed to have) and it failed. If it had worked (and it should have, given that silicon is about the best thing in the world after tin foil), all would have been well. However, once the stuff is on it's the Devil's own job to get anything else to stick to it. Ok, the penalty for failure isn't as bad as it normally is when some over the top film baddie 'rewards' one of his employees (i.e., "Sorry boss I screwed up" Boss: "You have.....Failed! And the penalty for failure.....is.........DEATH!"), but it's a pain nonetheless. Hm. Perhaps I digressed a little to much there. Better do some work.

Stig

[kiroh]

The handlebar end weight has snapped off after my last crash and needs repairing. Doesn't look like I can fix it and the only obvious option is to glue it in with a metal repair kit.

Has everyone out there got their bar ends still on? Will the bar start vibrating too much if I just remove them completely?

In case I decide to go for new handlebars - what is the best alternative to the original Honda? Don't want them to be too wide, as I need to filter in traffic every day.

Cheers

I fitted 'Enduro high' Renthal handle bars (about £35). The walls on these bars are so thick that you don't need the end weights at all, all vibration is damped out. They are as wide as the original bars including the bar weights, so you end up with your hands further apart but the bike is the same width. I love these bars and hate riding other ATs with the standard bars now.

I've even stuck a set on my DR350 now.

Which shop/catalogue?

[YEN_POWELL]

http://www.racespec.co.uk/ there I think. I also bought my super tyre levers that don't nip tubes here (sold singly £7.50 each) as demonstrated to Maverick.

[paultheold]

Binned my bar end weights, and turned a pair out of stainless.

Yen do the levers really not nip tubes. tube nipping is my best trick

[Chad]

you guys change your own tyres
im amongst gods