01-11-2017, 04:55 AM
(01-10-2017, 03:58 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: LOL that cracked me up. I matured riding in 1975 and never experienced the weave EVER, even when I weighed 128 pounds (not sure how many stones that is)
Apparently to stop it you just need to carry a heavy stone in your pocket.
I only experienced speed wobble once in my 25 years of riding. It happened on my new 1972 Kawasaki H2 Mach IV (AKA the widow maker).
I was riding home on a city street when I heard a muscle car flexing its muscle on the freeway beside me. Being a twenty-something motorcycle yahoo, I decide to roar up the next on ramp and show him what was fast was all about.
As I passed him, the Kawashaky went into an extreme speed wobble and the muscle car went breezing by me as I struggled to say alive. I slowly exited at the next off ramp, very shaken by the experience.
The widow maker was a 3-cylinder 2-stroke jet with a very light front end. Wheelies were easy to perform. I only weighed 163 pounds soaking wet, so it was inevitable I would experience this sooner or later. A lessoned learned without damage, except to my foolish young ego.