Will these handlebars hold up?

...ladies · #1 01-30-2009, 09:12 AM

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There is the link. Just trying to reduce the vibrations. It'l be filled with BB's or something to reduce the vibrations. Will they hold up ya think?

huckersteve · #2 01-30-2009, 11:05 AM

Put it this way- maybe.

Install them properly and forget that stuff about filling the bar with BB's. That's just wacky!

**Bikeguy Joe** · #3 01-30-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by huckersteve

Put it this way- maybe.

Install them properly and forget that stuff about filling the bar with BB's. That's just wacky!

Wacky? No, not if you use lead shot. Regular BB's? Yes, wacky.

HoughMade · #4 01-30-2009, 11:33 AM

Better- smallest shot you can get and epoxied in.

However, I guess there may be a story out there, but I have never heard of a handlebar structural failure (mounting failure, sure).

jasonh · #5 01-30-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by HoughMade

However, I guess there may be a story out there, but I have never heard of a handlebar structural failure (mounting failure, sure).

http://motorbicycling.com/f11/someti...eing-5707.html

**Norman** · #6 01-30-2009, 12:49 PM

you people wanting to dampen the vibs in the bars can do something kind of on the cheap but most will frown on this as its quite DANGEROUS.
fill the bars with melted lead you can get this at most tire stores in the form of wheel weights and lead can be melted in a steel pot over an electric stove or with a propane torch.
plug one end with a little dirt tip up on end so you can pour it and melt and pour it into the bars.
if you don't want to fill the bars then run in a plug to the depth you want and fill just the ends let them cool off and try them out.
Try to do all this out side in a well ventilated area and off the cement and in the dirt melted metal will do mean and nasty thing to cement and flesh not to mention the fumes can damage your brain but if we had any brains we would all be building and riding motorcycles and not these bicycles.
I sometimes wonder about myself but all I have to do is log in here and see I'm not the craziest SOb here on the forum just a good? instigator to get thing rolling or crashing and burning.
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junkyard · #7 01-30-2009, 12:54 PM

i heard on here somewhere you can use sand

jasonh · #8 01-30-2009, 04:27 PM

pretty much anything that is dense and will fill up the bars will probably work I'd guess.

...ladies · #9 01-30-2009, 10:51 PM

Not really sure why BB's would be a "wacky" idea... difference between it and lead shot? Could somebody please explain the science behind putting lead in the handlebars.. Putting the most dense thing in there to absorb vibrations isn't making much since to me. Wouldn't rubber or something like memory foam absorb the vibrations better? It's like putting metal in metal, the vibrations arn't absorbed, just dispersed. There has to be a way to absorb the vibrations.

**Bikeguy Joe** · #10 01-31-2009, 04:42 PM

I would dampen the vibrations.

You asked for help, it was just a suggestion.

I guess I should just give up trying to help, it's becoming very frustrating.