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gadget · 17-09-20, 07:09 PM

All scary stuff there! Never had a wobble or a weave on any of my bikes ranging fro the 70's to present day!
Only ever had one 'tank slapper' and that was a proper tank slapper... not just a wobble, it came in so quick I didn't know what hit me, next thing I know I'm sliding down a section of dual carriageway and came to a halt literally a couple of feet from the central reservation. No immediate injuries to speak of just wrecked leathers, only thing I noticed a few minutes after was my right thumb was painful, it turned out it was dislocated from being bashed into the tank during the tank slapper, it had been so violent that the right steering stop had been broken allowing my thumb to get squashed into the tank.
Btw ... that was on my RD400E with ace bars, pretty scary stuff at the time tbh.

17-09-20, 07:09 PM	#9
gadget Member Join Date: Aug 2019 Posts: 397	Re: Attention Scallywags All scary stuff there! Never had a wobble or a weave on any of my bikes ranging fro the 70's to present day! Only ever had one 'tank slapper' and that was a proper tank slapper... not just a wobble, it came in so quick I didn't know what hit me, next thing I know I'm sliding down a section of dual carriageway and came to a halt literally a couple of feet from the central reservation. No immediate injuries to speak of just wrecked leathers, only thing I noticed a few minutes after was my right thumb was painful, it turned out it was dislocated from being bashed into the tank during the tank slapper, it had been so violent that the right steering stop had been broken allowing my thumb to get squashed into the tank. Btw ... that was on my RD400E with ace bars, pretty scary stuff at the time tbh.