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    #1

    Handlebar ends

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    These metal ends on the handle bars, are they stock?

    Whether or not, do they screw in or simply get pushed in?

    I've got a piece of 2x4 and my hammer and my bigger hammer. I thought I'd ask first.
    1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

    2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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    My guess is no, they're not. Weights on the end of the bars are a popular aftermarket item to help reduce the vibration in the bars.
    1980 Yamaha XS1100G (Current bike)
    1982 GS450txz (former bike)
    LONG list of previous bikes not listed here.

    I identify as a man but according to the label on a box of Stauffers Baked Lasagne I'm actually a family of four

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      #3
      They don't seem like weights to me; they seem very light, ornamental.
      1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

      2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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        #4
        Handlebar weights I've dealt with Do Not come out easily. For obvious reasons.

        Mine have pushed-in and locked, against pulling out...these have had sliding tabs that you can push to de-expand the rubber washers that hold them....but it all gets kind of sticky, if they've been in there 20 years or more. Those Might use a screw to expand them...or ?

        What bike are they on? I'd go-slow, look-close, do research before you wreck them or just leave them alone.

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          #5
          They're on the 1100EZ. I wasn't planning on removing them, one side is just sticking out too much.
          1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

          2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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            #6
            ah-so. None of my Suzukis have weights...better wait til someone that has them comes along. But don't just bang on them.

            add: I'd expect they'd just bounce on "stuck-rubber" inside. Better probably to know the mechanism, remove em, clean it all up and push em back in.
            Last edited by Gorminrider; 07-21-2019, 11:20 AM.

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              #7
              ...but I'm already "thinking" some heat (hot wet rag or heat gun) and some tire-lube, if they are bouncy-when-tapped..and nothing else works

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                #8
                I went and bought bar end mirrors for my GS and then find someone had filled the bloody bars with weld! 😠😠

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                  #9
                  GK have bar end weights, stock. Are held in by tightning screw that goes thru them and a big rubber plug. Tightning the screw compresses the plug that makes it expand.
                  But they dont look at all like that.
                  http://webpages.charter.net/ddvrnr/GS850_1100_Emblems.jpg
                  Had 850G for 14 years. Now have GK since 2005.
                  GK at IndyMotoGP Suzuki Display... ... GK on GSResources Page ... ... Euro Trash Ego Machine .. ..3 mo'cykls.... update 2 mocykl


                  https://imgur.com/YTMtgq4

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                    #10
                    If it's the throttle side, don't push it in more or it may interfere with it's operation!

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                      #11
                      Got real lucky on this one. Mentioned this to my mechanic, and even though these ugly metal ends were on the bike long before he ever saw it, he opens his fist and says, "These were what was originally on it."

                      In his palm were two rubbery plastic black caps. Longer one for throttle. Phillips head got the old throttle end off, small vise grips the other side. Plastic ones went on by hand, with minimal trouble and rolling back the Grab Ons.

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                      1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

                      2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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                        #12
                        I recently removed old bars on my gs1100e cause I keep hearing a rattling sound and I found out previous owner used ball bearings and silicone to place the BBs inside the bars. So I put on a new handlebar and I made my own weights out of brass at work and lightly pushed them in. Those pieces you have are just for looks or to cover the hole.

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