has anyone tried the "lead shot in the handlebars" trick?

The 1930s CHRYSLER info I saw said ( this ) was to stop AXLE TRAMP . As anyone whos driven on washboard dirt roads knows , wheel patter & she wont turn in, or hook up out, of corners .

has anyone tried the "lead shot in the handlebars" trick?


ARGH . the U S version the WEIGHTS are in the bumper ends ( like a leaf spring eye ) as the bumpers WERE spring steel generally, pre war . The Weight was to counter axle shimmy .

( the drg. above is something else again ) . Theres been ' multi leaf ' handlebars , same purpose the old multi wire soke steering wheels . To absorb road shock .

“410,983. Vibration-dampers; vehicle collision-guards. ROVER CO., Ltd., and WILKS, M. C., Helen Street, Coventry. June 23, 1933, Nos. 17932 and 36334.
[Classes 103 (ii) and 108 (iii).] To damp torsional vibration of a vehicle about its longitudinal axis when travelling a flexible transverse member .

has anyone tried the "lead shot in the handlebars" trick?


Presumably , with the handlebars , theres an optimum lead slug weight / position , for each handlebar type . As per ' balance factor ' on the Crankshaft .

Hemi 6 Chrysler higher revs need bigger harmonic balancers , to keep the flywheel on .
 
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