This vibration is killing my hands.

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High-Gain Busa @ Jun. 23 2008 said:
This has been brought up before as one of the negatives of the Busa but I remember some saying they don't experience this.

For the second weekend in a row, my wife and I went on long rides, about 2 hours each way and at an Interstate speed that puts the engine right at 4500-4700 RPM. The vibration in the grips is so bad my right hand goes completely to sleep despite how much I try to relax it and not lean on it what so ever. It's a double whammy, as it goes to sleep I cautiously hold it tighter as I can't really feel how well I am hanging on and you can't really drop your hands and relax them or shake them out in 2-4 lane one way traffic without being ran over. At 75 MPH, the air flow keeps me from leaning on the grips. Pretty much the same with the foot pegs, a lot of vibration.

Is it true some of you don't experience this or are you not spending any extended time at 4500-4700 RPM?
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This is "exactly" what I'm going through right now. I have about 1280k on the bike.

I'm not leaning on the bars nowhere near as much I did when I first got the bike but even so after 45 minutes my right hand goes to sleep (20 minutes for the left but as you mentioned letting of the bars to shake it out isn't a problem) and thus far there's not a damn thing ergonomically I can do that'll prevent this from happening. Depending or where I am I'll either pull over to the side of the highway or start praying for a red light.

Guess this means I'll have to start looking into some of the suggested mods to counter this issue...
 
Man if you think the Busa has vibes you should have ridden my old Suzuki GS1150! Fastest paint shaker around! These tamed her right down and now reside on my Busa. Custom made brass bar ends. Heavy yes (nearly a pound each I would guess) but they do the job man! My heavy throttlemeisters are nowhere near as good as these babies at killing the vibes.

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bigoltool @ Jun. 23 2008 said:
Man if you think the Busa has vibes you should have ridden my old Suzuki GS1150! Fastest paint shaker around! These tamed her right down and now reside on my Busa. Custom made brass bar ends. Heavy yes (nearly a pound each I would guess) but they do the job man! My heavy throttlemeisters are nowhere near as good as these babies at killing the vibes.
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WOW!!!!!!

My busa shook pretty healthy too.....wasn't too bad on smooth roads, but the rougher the road and higher the revs the worse it got. On one particularly fast ride on old rough pavement the engine buzz got so bad I thought I had a serious problem developing. Turned out it was just the mix of road and revs. One thing that helps though is to keep your chain properly adjusted
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For Christ sake don't cruse between 4500-4700 other than that the bike is bad ass. Mine has 1200 miles on it and it has calmed down considerably. I've had 3 14's and I'm sure loving this 08 Busa. It's like being home.
 
At my first service the dealer put in 20/50 part synthetic and I'm over 1500 miles now the vibration isn't even worth mentioning, what is worth mentioning is the shaking of the fron end at 150+.
 
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+1 On the 4500-6500 rpm hand numbing buzz...much more noticable than my 01 Busa. Suprisingly though, this did get much better than it was new. Running past 1,700 miles now. Looked hard at the bar-end mod. So you guys have good results with the throttlemeisters?
 
My 05 feels like it has that buzz in the whole bike right at highway crusin speeds, dosen't really bother me all that much. I do get cramping in my hands after several hours of riding, lately I noticed when wearing my cold weather gloves which are much thicker with padding (palm & fingers) I don't get the cramping, switch back to the thinner Dianese gloves and my hands cramp up within 30 minutes. Last couple rides I've found it much more comfortable to just use the padded gloves, they are the Alpinestars ST-1 Drystar gloves, you might want to give a pair like this a try, only like $40

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This is what many of use do here in Atlanta...We purchased the universal ISO Grips by Kuryakyn http://www.kuryakyn.com/category.asp?bn=metric&cn=Grips and put the throttle body on it and it works everytime here is the link to the throttle boss http://www.kuryakyn.com/products.asp?bn=metric&ci=2923 (read the description and explains how it kills the vibration in your hands. If it fits your bike sceme they look great!! Oh yeah also,..you can buy a bag of buck shots and tilt the bike and poor into your handle bars on side at a time and this dramatically cuts out all the vibration.

Hope this helps
 
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you can buy a bag of buck shots and tilt the bike and poor into your handle bars on side at a time and this dramatically cuts out all the vibration.
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Did something change???  Just checkin here...but aren't our bars solid???  I know my 01 Busa bars were.

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Munchie @ Jun. 25 2008 said:
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getbizzy @ Jun. 25 2008 said:
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you can buy a bag of buck shots and tilt the bike and poor into your handle bars on side at a time and this dramatically cuts out all the vibration.
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Did something change???  Just checkin here...but aren't our bars solid???  I know my 01 Busa bars were.
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This works great on tubular bars but not applicable here unfortunately. Another thing to look at if you are really serious is Hunter Flatbars.

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