My 2001 Sportster 883 Hugger has a bad vibration at highway speeds and puts my hands and feet to sleep. Is this normal? If it is: thanks, If it's not, I will post details.

Marblehead

 

Normal. You can get some new grips and those fatty rubber pegs to tone it down a bit, but that's pretty normal. Oddly, hard-mounting the risers on my sister's bike made some of the bar vibrations go away...

 

I had the same issue with factory bars and grips. I changed over to hard mount T-bars and Nostalgic grips and I don't have that issue any longer. I bought my Nostalgic grips from ebay. They came from a place called "Old School Choppers". I think I got them for 35$ and that was with shipping and handling. http://oldschoolchops.com/

 

I have the Nostalgic grips as well and they do work well to fight of the vibs

 

I put on these alloy art bushings and nostaga grips. Not too bad now.
http://www.dragspecialties.com/fatbo...?q=alloy%20art

Also, check your motor mounts and other hardware just to make sure its not something else. Easy for old solid mounts to shake things loose.

 

did you check out the ricor web site?Some peolpe have been installing these.

http://www.vibranator.com/

 

The OP's problem is from vibration typical for earlier solid motor mount Sporties. Front end suspension isn't the problem.

 

My solid mount sporty....once it was hardtailed and had the springer front end.....MAN...talk about vibration!

~Joe

 

Yeah...I'm lookin' forward to finishing mine

 

Your vibration at Highway speeds is normal and probably caused by the high RPMs that you have to do to keep up at those speeds. The stock 883 Sportsters have a 27 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley on them and the stock 1200s have a 29 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley on them. For about $150.00 you can buy a 29 Tooth or even a 30 Tooth Transmission Drive Pulley from Harley and after it is installed on your bike your RPMs will drop so that at about 80 MPH or so you are only doing about 4,000 RPMs or so and that should help out a little bit with the vibrations. I also put on those older fatty squishier foot pegs too and boy are they nice. You can try to find them at smaller independent motorcycle shops that do work on HDs as many people throw them away and put on different foot pegs for the looks! I picked up about 6 sets of these types of foot pegs for free and all I did was to ask the local shop about them and they gave them to me because nobody wanted them. Go figure? Anyway, I hope this information addresses your issues and ride safe.