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What is this hole in lower yoke for?

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Spitfire:
Yep got into a tank slapper on my old 750K1 on the M53, I think it might have something to do with the speed I was going and a very strong gust of side wind, so I fitted a steering damper to the bike and never had a problem again.

Cheers

Dennis

MrDavo:
My old CB750 K0 tried to chuck me off on the M6, at around 110mph. The combination of being sat up at speed, making the front light, plus a load of luggage on the carrier, which made it a bit wobbly at any speed, caused a huge lock to lock tank slapper, suddenly I was in two lanes at once!

I knew not to shut off or brake suddenly, that could have sent me over the bars, my only other option was to nail the throttle which stopped the wobble, then I gingerly backed off to a more legal speed.

My Z1 has a damper, I’ve not needed it yet, but I’ve only been over the ton once on it.

Bryanj:
The original Z1 was notorious for tank slappers which is where the "hinge in the middle" came from. We had a customer whose bike slid so far down the M5 that the casing behind the points cover was ground away nearly to the cases, he slid so far he lost about 1lb of skin.
That was before they came with dampers!

Laverda Dave:
Whilst the Jota does not suffer with tank slappers one thing I learnt very early on was to never roll off the throttle mid corner. To do so results in the bike picking itself up and going straight on! With a Jota if you go into a corner too quick you have to lean it over more, it wasn't called the fastest lorry for nothing  :o

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