Solution for Rider fatigue

Well, I'm just reporting back from 7th gen land. I was unable to get the vibes reduced using the Vib with my Throttlemeister; the RPMs at which the vibes might have shifted, but did not improve. ...so I spent another $40 to get the bar end weights that go with the Vib and removed the T'meister completely. ...the vibes are actually worse now than they were with just the T'meister installed. In fact, my clutch hand now goes to sleep since I removed the OEM insert to install the Vibranator and it never did that before!.

I'm really bummed, as I REALLY wanted this to work. ...sadly, it does not.

Now I'm not sure if I'll be able to re-install the OEM insert; bur the Vib is coming out, completely.

I'm going back to the T'meister setup and I'm going to change grips to sone of the ProGrip dual-comound gel grips to see if that gets me to a happy place. I rode toe Hermosa Beach and back, about 80 miles round trip, and my hands went to sleep so often I actually had to pull of the road to make the numbness go away! *grrrrr*

So if you have a 7th gen, I'd have to recommend not using the Vibranator. I'm glad it seems to be working so well for other VFRs, but it's just not cutting it on the 7th gen for whatever reason.

 

If a vibrinater is put in upsidedown or backward, does it then become a vibrator ?

Can ya get a set with fringe for Harleys?

 

Hey Reg,
Wow, that sucks!!! I'm sorry that happened to you! I never asked Don about Heli bars because somewhere on this thread others answered that question. There's at least one member using them with the Heli bars and he said they worked great. I can't imagine how that bold would break off. I'm at work an unfortunately today is a busy day. But you might scroll back a little bit and see if you can find the person who has the heli bars. Maybe ask him if he had any issues. If you don't get anywhere, let me know and I'll see if I can find that person. Will you be able to get that out with needlenose pliers or tweezers or something?

As you know, everybody's been loving the VBs but they DO have a 30 day money back guarantee so if for some reason you decide to return them, you can.... keep me posted!

Karen

 

Just thought of this and I don't think it's the same thing but.... when my inserts came out they were corroded beyond belief... so were Marrib's. Another member on here mentioned the same thing. I wonder if your inserts are corroded... maybe the bolt didn't break off so much as the insert itself? I'm not there so don't know what you are looking at but it's just another viewpoint....

 

One of my inserts was also heavily corroded, one was fine and pulled out easily; the other was corroded and was significantly more difficult to remove. I actually had to destroy it to remove it. This was on the OEM bars mind you. Easy enough to email or call Heli though and ask if the inserts were ever welded in.

 

I have Heli's on my 6th gen, don't know how different they are on the 5th. No welded inserts though, the stock vibration dampers were installed on mine, just popped em out and installed the Vibrinators.

 

BTW, hey Karen, any word from Don yet on the peg dampers??

 

Tried the VFRWorld coupon code and could not get it to work. I sent Don an email asking if the discount expired or if the code was now something different.... awaiting his reply

 

I bet that they expire after xxxx number of days (looks like 90 in this case perhaps). Let us know how it goes.

 

I was over at Don's shop at lunchtime and asked him about the coupon code. He says they DO expire periodically and I guess they all expire at the same time. He said all of them are in expiration mode right now and he has a message out to the guy that maintains them to re-activate them. Unfortunately, he's on a trip on the east coast for some demo to some company or something. Don is hoping he will get the email and re-activate the codes in the next couple days or so. Keep trying it every 2 or 3 days and eventually it will start working again... sorry for the inconvenience...

Metallican, as for the foot peg dampners, I know he hasn't had time to look at that yet... the last few weeks have been totally focused on some suspension tuning and testing for Chuck Son's dirt race bike. Apparently, they were working on it 24/7 in bursts.... hopefully they will get to look at the peg dampners soon. I'll try to keep up on that and keep you posted....

 

Cool, thanks again Karen!!!!!!!

 

so far... I got nuthin'

no reply, no change on the website :frown:

 

Don has apparently been very busy lately, he has many projects going on all at the same time (sounds familiar) He will help us out and hook us up, we must have patience.

 

The best deal would be to hear from the horses mouth instead of lip service from third parties. Gotta figure that if this guy is having problems here, there are problems elsewhere. Not good for his biz or his rep IMO.

 

Don is a small shop ya'll. They are on the verge of making it into some of the "heavy hitter suppliers" so that you won't get to (or have to, whichever you prefer) deal directly with them anymore, you will be dealing with the "big guys". They are busy on many different projects for production, getting race bikes up to snuff for races, etc. I think this is why many American businesses fail. China just hires thousands of people and pays them a penny a day to make cheap products that break a day after the warranty is up, so they have high production from the get go. Here in America, people try to be fair, pay a fair wage, provide a quality product that actually DOES something unique... but we dumb Americans are too impatient to wait... we want it yesterday. I completely understand how, when you give someone your credit card, you expect your item to be shipped that day or the next, and you expect to get a live person when you call each and every time. Don's shop is not a huge company... it's the typical story of "the little guy with a big idea" attempting to make it, and he's just in that fine line where he's got a ton of orders, but not enough to truly grow the business just yet....

I answer for Don because I'm the one that recommended his product to the group and I feel some responsibility to VFRWorld... and because people post on this thread. If you think you'd rather hear it from Don, Badbilly, then perhaps you should call him directly instead of posting here on the thread. I see him fairly regularly and I know what he's dealing with, and I just ask everyone to be patient. They are all dong what they can to keep up over there. Trust me, if I thought there was a problem with them taking your money and not providing product or not responding, I would be the first to tell you. The intentions of Don and everyone at Vibranator/Ricor Shocks are all for the highest good. There is only so much time in a day....

 

So, is the phone working now? Hopefully the thing wasn't made in China and has to be tossed out every few days.

 

....and their flied lice is real good too.