About Bar Snake
The Bar
Snake is an innovative American-made device designed to reduce the hand-numbing
and wristing-cracking handlebar vibrations of motorcycles, street-bikes, dirt
bikes, ATVs, personal-watercraft (jet-skies), snowmobiles, or virtually anything
with tubular handlebars.
The Bar Snake is a
precisely gauged cylinder composed of a high-tech polymer which, when properly
installed inside tubular handlebars, dampens many high frequency vibrations
that cause numbing, painful and even dangerous hand and wrist trauma.
For those who remember the
Bar Snake and have been dreaming "If only I could find a Bar Snake
somewhere...," the dream is now reality. For those who never knew us
before, you'll wonder how you rode without a Bar Snake installed.
The Bar Snake is a simple,
innovative invention that really works. One might wonder how something so
simple can work so well.
Tubular metallic shapes
have a natural tendency to conduct and amplify vibration. This principle has
been used for millinea to make bells, horns and other musical instruments.
Thus, like a bell, the tubular shapes of handlebars transmit and amplify the
vibrations from the motor and road to the rider's hands resulting in painful
hand and wrist stress and can inflame carpal tunnel syndrome.
In order to visualize how
the Bar Snake works, consider a small hard rubber ball of the type many
children play with. When the toy ball is dropped, it bounces high. This is
because the polymer the toy ball is made of REFLECTS vibration, so when it
lands, it reflects back almost all of it's falling energy. By a similar
physical process, the metal of a handlebar reflects and passes on vibrational
energy to the rider's hands and wrists. The polymer of the Bar Snake, by
contrast, ABSORBS vibration. If you were to drop a ball made of Bar Snake's
high-tech polymer next to a toy hard rubber ball, the toy ball would bounce
high while the Bar Snake ball would soak up it's falling energy and plop with
relatively little bounce. A Bar Snake inside a handlebar likewise soaks much of
vibrational energy before it gets to the end of the handlebar.
To use geek-speak, The Bar
Snake eliminates harmonic resonate frequencies that eminate from cyclic engine
vibrations that are transmitted through the vehicle frame to the handlebars.
The Bar Snake damps out these resonate vibrations because the polymer of the
Bar Snake has a low hysterisis factor, which means that the polymer doesn't
transmit vibrations.
The Bar Snake's reduction
of handlebar vibrations can benefit all types of riders. Long distance riders
have a less exhausting ride. High performance riders, like racers or off-road
riders are able to put more energy into the track or trail and less on simply
holding on. A smoother operating vehicle results in a more controlled, stress
free and safer ride.
The Bar Snake should be
especially considered by anyone who suffers from sore wrists, numb hands, or
other symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
The Bar Snake is easy to
install and comes with easy-to-follow detailed instructions and installation
tool.
There are five versions of
the Bar Snake currently available:
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Bar Snake Model ST-1. Fits most standard steel non high rise bars of 7/8" outside diameter. Most steel bars should be about 23/32" inside diameter and 40" long. $34.95 Bar Snake Model
AL-2. Fits
most aluminum crossbrace handlebars with 7/8" outside diameter, internal
diameter of 9/16 and 40" long. Bar Snake Model
HD-3 Fits
most 1-inch external diameter handlebars (Harley) with 7/8-inch internal
handlebar diameter. Excluding ape-hangers/buckhorn/multi-curved bars, etc,
and up to 40-inches long. **Special Note to Harley owners:**
Check thoroughly for dimples and other obstructions that may be in your
handlebars before purchase. Bar Snake Model
LV-4. Liquid
Bar Snake for handle bars with kinks, bends, or wires and cables running
through them. The Liquid Bar Snake can be poured into tubular handlebars and
sets in four hours. The Liquid Bar Snake can be used in all tubular
handlebars, but is especially intended for pro-taper handlebars, multi-curved
handlebars, such as buckhorns or ape-hangers, or handlebars which have cables
running through them. In short, wherever a standard solid Bar Snake cannot be
easily used. Model LV-4 contains enough fluid to fill a 7/8-inch external
diameter handlebar up to 40 inches long. |
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The Bar Snake has a proud
and successful history and received many good reviews in it's first production
run. Click here to read some of
these reviews.
The Bar Snake is sold at
the Bar Snake web site. Click here to
order a Bar Snake.
The Bar Snake is a
registered trademark of C. P. Products. Patent Pending.
Remember: Don't shake,
install a Bar Snake! It stops bad vibes!
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