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Enzobluesays...Ok, someone in the know, isn't there anything they can do engineering wise about the death wobble?? Seems it's the cause of 98% of the motorcycle crashes I've seen, (and been in).
supersaiyan93says...I love the transition in perspective between "rider on a bike" to "helmet-cam on a dude".
schmawysays...I don't think there's anything you can do about tank-slappers, Enzoblue. It's a function of the caster, or trail effect of the front wheel. A steering damper can help, as can adjusting the fork height in the triple-clamps by a few millimeters, but if you can steer it, it can wobble. I think it actually comes from the rider's arms anyway. The only way I've ever gotten out of them was by accelerating hard and loosening my grip on the bars.
ridesallyridencsays...^ What he said.
You want a sportbike to be unstable enough to turn easily, but juuuust stable enough to avoid this. Steering dampers can help, but it can still shake. Most of the time, it starts as a little head wobble, the rider amplifies it by chopping the throttle and trying to wrestle the bars, and then the tankslapper takes over from there...
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