Balancing act: Best motorcycle bar-ends

These basic yet great value end caps simply close-off the end of the handlebar tubes and offer a high-tech, classy look to finish off the bars. They are made from aluminium and are fixed with Allen-head bolts that pass through rubber spacers to a tapered nut.

R&G is renowned for its motorcycle crash protection and these bar-end sliders are no different. Available for a huge range of machines, they are direct replacements for the factory items and are essentially the company's stainless-steel bar-ends, designed to help dampen vibrations, with a layer of crash protection on the end so that in the event of a spill, the ends of the bars are protected.

These anodised aluminium bar ends are simple in design yet look good and should finish off your bars and help to eliminate any vibrations or at least move them to a different speed which hopefully will not affect your riding.

Not strictly a bar end though it does fit in the same way u2013 with an expanding nut inside the handlebar tube u2013 this lever guard will make inadvertent or accidental application of the front brakes or the clutch impossible by preventing anything activating the levers.

These are probably as basic as bar-end weights get; a pair of machined aluminium plugs supplied with bolts and expanding rubber sleeves to fix to the inside of 22mm handlebar tubes.

These aluminium bar-end weights come with a touch of motorsport technology thanks to a ring of carbon-fibre effect inset into the outer edge. They are available in four colours, silver, red, blue and gold to suit a wide range of bikes and will help to change the dynamics of the bars, eliminating or changing the point where vibrations occur.

Itu2019s no surprise that someone came up with the idea of building lights into bar ends and this is one example. The amber LED lights could be used alongside (or no doubt, instead of) regular indicators on the ends of the bar to provide a different take on lighting.

These simple bar ends from Gear Gremlin are produced in aluminium and come with a scalloped cylindrical design to suit any handlebars and pretty much any bike. They fit with a central Allen bolt and expanding metal sleeves with a tapered nut and are available in a wide range of colours and finishes; polished aluminium, black, red, blue or gold. Simple but effective.