12-17-2013, 06:59 AM
(12-15-2013, 01:27 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Ive been on the receiving end of a couple speed wobbles. Some get so violent they rip the bars from your hands. Got to say going thru one is not as bad as having to come back thru one, but neither way is a fun way to spend an afternoon, and everyone make you question riding in the first place.
Yes it does, there is a highway close to where I grew up, that was practically abandoned when a freeway came thru about 30 years ago. Just north of town there is a stretch that is straight as an arrow for about 5 miles, we used to "test" some of our mods on that stretch of road. There was never any traffic, and if you were as dumb as we were back then, you could really find out what your bike/car would do.
My buddie had just installed a 4 into 1 exhaust on his Z-1, and urged me to check it out, (we were always riding each other's bikes). The Z-1 and I were travelling at around 120 when the wobble began. I had never before experienced a speed wobble and I did absolutely the wrong thing, I let off the gas, and the wobble got worse. I coasted until the wobble finally stopped, at which time I realized I was going to have to change my drawers
. It was a while before I got up to that kind of speed again, and never on the Z-1.