Smooth as glass: vibration-free bars

[Ulvetanna_imp]

I've fitted Renthal Lows or Ultra Lows, can't remember, and love the riding position, but the vibes are too much on long journeys. Esp. as I've lowered the gearing and motorway blasts are too buzzy.
Just wondered, do you think the cb500F bar weights and ends would fit the renthals? I'd need to drill a locating hole perhaps.
Failing that I'll have to go with CB500 bars as well...

Renthals look awesome but vibrate like crazy. As ChipBeck pointed out, the inside diameter of any of the aluminium bars is substantially narrower, so nothing would fit.

The CB500F bars fit perfectly; the color is a match for some of the black found already on at least the '13 Standard, but I'm sure the bar could be stripped of paint and chromed if desired.

My hands are starting to become more sensitive to vibrations, my electric toothbrush actually bothers my hand more than my motorcycle riding. Something about the frequency. So yeah, it comes on kinda sudden and takes forever to heal up or just gets annoyingly chronic. So getting rid of those vibes is a good idea. You'll be in it less than a hundred with the CB500F bars and all the parts for the CB500F weights, internal, external.

You just need to drill a couple of locating holes for the switch gear as ChipBeck has pointed out. Very easy. Flipping the risers forward helps with tank clearance but is not necessary, but you have to be careful about not allowing the bars to hit the tank.
After recalling you are from London and the way you likely use the bike you will for sure want to flip the risers forward. You are gonna love it. BTW if you can retain the four rubber grommets from the CB1100 internal weights, you don't need to purchase those that are spec'd for the CB500F weights. But they do have more contact area and I think it would be worth it just to order them up, because I think this amount of contact area is figured into the engineering. If you lose or damage one those from the CB1100 will work though. It was a little tricky figuring out how they went on to the outer part of the internal weight because there is a clip that locates these weights inside the bar to set them in position but I am very sure you will figure that out without any real headscratching.