How to...open up the handlebars?

[JustPassinThru_imp]

Just,

I have a stock handlebar off the bike. I don't think there is any blockage in the bar but I'll check it out when I get home tonight and let you know. It's possible that when you took the bar weights out you pulled them out of the inner rubber rings. Mine came off when I took those bar weights off and I had to fish them out with a coat hanger. That was probably your blockage. And if they are pulled out those weights are not dampening vibration like they should. Did you take a picture of your weights when they were out?

Chip

Thanks for the info, Chip - but I linked back to the Bar replacement thread (yours?) with good photos. I did get the inner rubber mounts out. One came out as it should, with the inner weight; and the other didn't - and was easily retrieved with a wire.

You could look or try to judge: is there an inner sleeve set inside over the place where the brackets clamp down? Because the amount of shot that went in was almost negligible.