Bar end weights

loudhvx wrote: When properly weighted, they can reduce vibration in the bars, but there is a potential downside. If your bike is prone to tank-slapper, the bar-end weights can increase the likelihood of it happening. Most Kz's are pretty stable, but the early standard 550's seem to like to oscillate more than others, and they can go into a bad tank-slapper at high speeds, especially the 81 Gpz550. (Kawasaki redesigned the geometry for 1982.) One way to avoid it is to reduce the steering inertia by taking weight off. This increases the resonance frequency to a speed you hopefully can't attain with the bike. Adding weights at the ends of the bars would be counter to that strategy.

loudhvx wrote: When properly weighted, they can reduce vibration in the bars, but there is a potential downside. If your bike is prone to tank-slapper, the bar-end weights can increase the likelihood of it happening. Most Kz's are pretty stable, but the early standard 550's seem to like to oscillate more than others, and they can go into a bad tank-slapper at high speeds, especially the 81 Gpz550. (Kawasaki redesigned the geometry for 1982.) One way to avoid it is to reduce the steering inertia by taking weight off. This increases the resonance frequency to a speed you hopefully can't attain with the bike. Adding weights at the ends of the bars would be counter to that strategy.

Scirocco wrote: To eleminate mirror vibrations you can put mirror rubber adsorber adapters into to your handle bar mounts.

www.louis-moto.co.uk/artikel/mirror-vibr...799231024.1487980295

Street Fighter LTD wrote:
Those are real neat. Never seen them before