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Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:26 pm**

It's been 29 years and I still have the Commando

Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:59 pm**

I'm envious.

<- Purcased that one back in '74 When the picture was taken. Had 11 fun filled years with it. Definitely my favourite bike.

tripletrouble wrote:It's been 29 years and I still have the Commando

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:49 pm**

Here is a video of a bad tank slapper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2svJf4-g4I
also here is a tankslapper at a bad time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6jruSIELA

Lion_Lady wrote:You might want to define the terms first.

Tank slap,

It's when you let go of the handlebars, raise one hand in the air, yell "yeeeeeee-haaaw" and slap the tank with the other hand.

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:53 am**

1979 Honda CBX. Six cylinders of awesome power in a frame made for a bicycle. Going too fast for the frame, took a sharp bend and it started wobbling.

Give it the gas to get out of it. Scary feeling

Posted: **Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:07 am**

Here's some interesting intel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_wobble

Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:50 am**

Sev wrote:2004 Honda 599.
Doing about a buck fifty (km).
I was accelerating up a hill in a corner and hit a small bump mid corner.
She shook her head hard enough to swing loose my left mirror.

Loosened up on the bars and accelerated slightly and the shake dissapeared.

I broke down the front end, inspected the steering head bearings, and repacked the grease.

Is that everything?

WHAT?

Posted: **Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:37 pm**

Logitech105 wrote:also here is a tankslapper at a bad time.

I disagree. It's not a "bad time" so much as some squid acting like a *(#&$ moron. Driving unsafely-> crash. What a surprise.

Posted: **Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:26 am**

Media Weasel wrote:
Logitech105 wrote:also here is a tankslapper at a bad time.
I disagree. It's not a "bad time" so much as some squid acting like a *(#&$ moron. Driving unsafely-> crash. What a surprise.

In his defense, he was doing it on what appeared to be a deserted stretch of road with no obstacles either in the road or anywhere near it. He was trying to put the bike back down when he saw the car up ahead.

Posted: **Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:30 am**

Bubba wrote:
Sev wrote:2004 Honda 599.
Doing about a buck fifty (km).
I was accelerating up a hill in a corner and hit a small bump mid corner.
She shook her head hard enough to swing loose my left mirror.

Loosened up on the bars and accelerated slightly and the shake dissapeared.

I broke down the front end, inspected the steering head bearings, and repacked the grease.

Is that everything?
WHAT?

What do you mean what?

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