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

[fizzwheel]

Nope never had a bad one, I can provoke the SV into shaking its head on a bad piece of road near where my parents live, I can't provoke the GSXR at all.

My brother had a nasty one on his RS125 a few years back, bruised all his right wrist where it got trapped between the bar and the tank.

On the SV no and I hope I never do.
On the Katana (550) I don't think so but something similar. I went for an overtake, realised the car at the front was about to turn right and locked the rear up in panic braking. It felt like I could have got my knee down both sides of the bike whilst travelling in a straight line. I thought I was off. Really not funny. Pulled to side of road and sat there. People in car who DIDN'T turn right into me (all credit to their observation) pulled up to see if I was ok.

The weird thing is in that moment it wasn't "F*** this is going to hurt" that went through my mind but "Mum's gonna kill me".

Originally Posted by neio79

had the back end step out and shake side to side a few times due to braking to hard into a corner

I can attest that you're riding skill is now greatly increased, now when you try to slide the rear into a corner you keep it nicely under control

I had one on my Zephyr 550. Came over a hill too quick while also leaning slightly, when I tried to straighten she wobbled a lot. Made me almost poo my pants.

[mister c]

Had a classic tonight. Accellerated on a level crossing in the wet, wheel spun up, so countersteered and shut the throttle off.
Soon as the tyre bit, steering went to opposite lock instantly, so put a bit of power on and steered the other way.
Then the back wheel hit the tarmac on the road, decided to grip and tried to spit me off, how I stayed on I dont know, but there was a hell of a lump in the back of my pants.

Originally Posted by 2mths

The weird thing is in that moment it wasn't "**** this is going to hurt" that went through my mind but "Mum's gonna kill me".

Funny that, I've never thought "**** this is going to hurt!" either. For me, it's always "**** this will be expensive!"

It is funny. When I binned mine I didn't think this is going to hurt, it was mainly my girlfriends going to kill me and oh F***

Was that bloke on the TT tank slapper accident killed in that accident. I failed to see how anyone could have survived that.

Aweful.

I've had two so far but neither were on the SV.

The first was on my sr125 (believe it or not ) when I came fleeing around a corner doing about 50mph. Turned out there was a flash flood coming the other way and me being the inexperienced plonker that I was decided to jam the brakes on as I was leaned over on the corner. I have no idea how I managed to stay upright but I must have ridden at 20mph all the way home. Gave me one helluva fright.

The second was on my zx6r and was my fault entirely. Misbehaving on a particularly bumpy road enjoying pulling wheelies off the crests and got it wrong. Landing with the bars facing the wrong way = brown trouser moment Needless to say, I've not tried it since...

Yeah, but not on the sv...years back I had a heck of a one on diesel near Tesco's roundabout in Aldershot on my RD125...luckily all the traffic on the dual carriageway, stopped until I sorted it out. Didnt fall off, but had both feet on the tarmac...it was a heck of a battle of wills, but i stayed upright...