Throttlemeister Vibe killer/Cruise control

My pointy S has suffered from bar vibes since new, and I'm aware of some of the various remedies suggested in these pages. I've been using a throttle rocker thingy for some time but, while that device allows you to relieve numbness by varying your grip (waggle fingers keeping throttle open with heel of hand), it doesn't let you take your right hand completely off the bar, and so cruelly denies that extremity the luxury of the more thorough arm and shoulder waggle so much appreciated by its more fortunate sinistral neighbour.

The numbness had reached the point that I felt proper control was being compromised, so I looked at websites further afield. Considered but rejected were the clamp-type cruise control and the neoprene caterpillar O-ring on grounds of possible jamming, but I think I've now found the (for me, anyway) elegant solution in the shape of the throttlemeister, whose details can be found on their website www.throttlemeister.com . It looks exactly like a pair of stainless steel replacement bar end-weights, which they are, but with a hidden extra inside the body of the right-hand one. They come in regular and heavyweight - I chose the latter.

It's not cheap (£115 + £7.50 p+p), but seems very well engineered, and doesn't look too shabby either. Being the impatient sort, and not wanting to wait for delivery from Milwaukee, I called Bike Johnny in Maidstone http://www.bikejohnny.com/cgi-bin/st...SU12-04-011-50

I spoke to the nice lady there at 1pm Wednesday and the gorgeous thing (no, not the lady!) was on my doormat by 8am next day. Took me an hour to fit, but anyone with half a mechanical brain could probably do it in seven or eight minutes. On my K3 there is a circumferential ridge on the outboard end of the plastic throttle tube, and you have to Stanleyknife it away before fitting the friction sleeve. All detailed in the instructions.

Took it out for field trial yesterday, and I have to say that I'm very pleased indeed. Basically, you twist the bar-end towards you to engage a clutch against the end of the throttle tube, counteracting the effect of the throttle return spring and freeing the right hand for some R&R. Vice versa to disengage. It is always instantly overrideable just by closing the throttle normally.

Thought I'd share my discovery with you, as I've read so much helpful stuff on here.