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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Advice on SEVERE tank slap
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<blockquote data-quote="tonythecat" data-source="post: 354" data-attributes="member: 110"><p>Worst off I have ever had was from a tank slapper on a Comet when I was 18 48 years ago, doing 65 mph it was the first morning it had rained after a long hot summer, hit a pot-hole, bars went from lock to lock and threw me off went about 40 yards on my backside and only wearing jeans at the time OUCH. Will never forget it, however, last year I took a course at a riding clinic near York, and the instructor who was an Industrial Phsyciatrist, explained that your mind cannot act as quickly as the bars are moving and in trying to correct the problem you are aggravating it, i.e. you are pushing left when you should be pulling!</p><p></p><p>On this course, held on a disused air-field was a large pot-hole around 4" deep, and about 2 yards in front of it was a timber baulk 4" square fastened to the ground, after 20 minutes instruction he had all the pupils riding over the timber and down the hole at 40 mph with no hands!!. There was as can be expected a violent reaction from the bars but within around 10 yards the machine sorted itself out, mind it was a Harley I was riding at the time not the Vinnie. Thae course lasted all day and was the best £60 I have ever spent, apart from in a lap-dancing club (lol)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonythecat, post: 354, member: 110"] Worst off I have ever had was from a tank slapper on a Comet when I was 18 48 years ago, doing 65 mph it was the first morning it had rained after a long hot summer, hit a pot-hole, bars went from lock to lock and threw me off went about 40 yards on my backside and only wearing jeans at the time OUCH. Will never forget it, however, last year I took a course at a riding clinic near York, and the instructor who was an Industrial Phsyciatrist, explained that your mind cannot act as quickly as the bars are moving and in trying to correct the problem you are aggravating it, i.e. you are pushing left when you should be pulling! On this course, held on a disused air-field was a large pot-hole around 4" deep, and about 2 yards in front of it was a timber baulk 4" square fastened to the ground, after 20 minutes instruction he had all the pupils riding over the timber and down the hole at 40 mph with no hands!!. There was as can be expected a violent reaction from the bars but within around 10 yards the machine sorted itself out, mind it was a Harley I was riding at the time not the Vinnie. Thae course lasted all day and was the best £60 I have ever spent, apart from in a lap-dancing club (lol) [/QUOTE]
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