I've never had a tankslapper, have you?!

Originally Posted by tomjones2

Had loads of head shakes on the sv and there always fun up to this point, it just the fine line between the bike bouncing around and you really enoying yourself, and oh f*** this is going to hurt.

Quite, the SV isn't the most 'planted' bike, especially in stock trim, so moves around bit, but a little giggly wiggley and a serious brown trouser moment is something quite different ...

There is a memorable video of a bike doing a TT (big black bike cresting a hill initiating slapper) … now that IS a brown trouser slapper!!!!

I am sure if I could be bothered to look it’d be on youtube, but many of you will have seen it before and know the one I am on about!!

someone posted it on the second page

Originally Posted by plowsie

someone posted it on the second page

My curvy gave me a real good head shake one day, my fault, being to eager on the gas and I run across the solid lines of a chevron from a slip road, accelerating hard....

Bars went from one side to the other quite violently. I can't remember how I recovered it but it scared the life out of me at the time....

The 'Blade gives me a good shake whenever the head gets light and starts to lift, even on a straight road. That's how I know if I've actually done that wheelie.... Lots of gas, head shaking, 1, 2, 3 yes that's up......

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head shakes of protest on the 1000 but no real problems with slappers, maybe a diff story without the damper fitted?

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

Not on the SV, though I've actively tried Yes on the Laverda, and oddly, yes on the NC30.

Best (scariest) tank slapper vid ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvVv_zbOjk

That is horrid!!!

Yep, I've had a proper tankslapper. Only one mind. 'Proper' as in bars bang violently (and repeatedly) from full lock to full lock (denting the alumimium frame's lock stops on either side in the process). That was when my front wheel hit a deer at 60mph.

I've had lots of incidences of the bars waggling a bit: front wheel going light/airborne when nailing it over humpback bridges, when giving it some over bumpy ground on stock suspension, etc. Bars waggling, however, are not tankslappers. Once you've had a proper tankslapper, you stop refering to this sort of "bar wagging" as a tankslapper.

Originally Posted by sv650nutter149

yeah ive had a slapper, go find one on ur local street corner

i have hada few in my time as well!!

seriously never hada tank slapper, had the back end step out and shake side to side a few times due to braking to hard into a corner, that was scary co i know the next step on can be a horrific highside!!

that TT one was a classic slapper,mind you theres some bad uns on that youtube.

well youve just scared the **** out of me ive never had one and dont want one either i think ill stick to the speed limit from now on