Originally Posted by
Strat
here's my 2nd - how do you accelerate if the bastards slappin the tank like a pimp in a ghetto?
I have a different opinion on resolving this. Quite a few years ago (maybe 17? and yes I was riding then), some bikes were prone to tank slapping. These were due to instability as a result of wide range of things which I wont get into but I tend to agree with most of Ixion comments.
Generally, these Tank slappers were as a result of "speed" and were sometimes known as the "speed wobbles". I am not sure if this is exactly what you were getting into, but at the very least you can add it to the list of useless trivial things that you now know
Anyway, to resolve this, you need to lower your centre of gravity!! The best and easiest way to do this is to lean over your tank and slowly deaccelerate. Of couse, building up your speed once your over the tank, will only result in another tank slapper. If this happens, you have no way your lowering your centre of gravity, and you will end up being thrown off..
I have only once experienced this and it happened to be on a XJ750 and I was doing around 150km on a country road.
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