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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | Okay, just read the home page and this was posted there....
"The Vision can recover on its own from a tank slapper at 85 mph. Test riders actually got the bike up to 85, set the cruise, took their hands off the bars and then slapped the end of one bar with all they have putting it into a violent tank slapper and then timed how long it took the bike to recover without rider input!"
Was that put there to see if anyone was paying attention??? |
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Visionary
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | Yeah, I ain't gonna try it.............. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 66
Oklahoma City | I would love to see video of that, otherwise it didn't happen. |
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Visionary
Posts: 1365
Central Maryland | There are gyroscopic forces in affect when one's hauling ass down the road on a bike.... but I think the "test" is bullshit.
This drivel is probably from a Vision hater whom thinks someone is going to take their 23k bike and emulate the "test"... weirder things have happened...
Edited by willtill 2011-10-29 5:19 PM
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Tourer
Posts: 494
Akron Ohio area | <p>Test riders actually do this kind of insane stuff. I do believe it. The key is to not reduce speed, and supposedly you should accelerate out of it. . (Notice they set the cruise). </p><p> </p>
Edited by bigfoot 2011-10-29 5:39 PM
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Iron Butt
Posts: 763
Anderson, IN (48mi NE of downtown Indianapolis) | I had tank slappers several times on other bikes between 40 and 70 mph. Scariest thing I ever experienced. No way I would purposely do it.
As mentioned above, I need unedited footage. |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1109
| XRsteve - 2011-10-29 5:02 PM Yeah, I ain't gonna try it.............. +1 |
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Tourer
Posts: 523
seattle, wa | At 85 MPH I doubt a rider could slap the bars hard enough to get it to go into a tank slapper. A tank slapper is going from full lock to lock.
But it would be fun to watch someone else try it.
"Hey guys, watch this!" |
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Cruiser
Posts: 133
, AR United States | No, not gonna try it. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 94
milwaukee wisconsin | mlockman - 2011-10-29 5:09 PM
I would love to see video of that, otherwise it didn't happen. +1 on that otherwise it nothing bs |
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Cruiser
Posts: 74
shakopee , Mn | Hey, Hold my beer and watch this. |
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Visionary
Posts: 2118
Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | My first 'Custom Paint Job' occured because of a 'tank slapper' - which did dent my tank and cause an new paint job. I kept the bike upright - thru luck mostly I think, years of riding on gravel on mountain logging roads may have helped. But reading this - I can't see a true 'slapper' being ignored and resulting in 'control' - just doesn't seem possible. Be nice - but .... wishful thinking maybe. Gotta see it to belive it. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 233
flagstaff, AZ | I don't plan on trying this either, but I have seen a video of a guy doing just this technique. the difference was he only hit the grip with a moderate force which did not cause what I consider a tankslapper |
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Tourer
Posts: 554
2 mi from Jim Beam n KY | I'll try this and report back to you fellas...................................on the next 5th Sunday in February but only during a blue moon........ |
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Visionary
Posts: 4278
| When I had harley Electra glide I had tank slappers and I'm here to tell you not even Hulk Hogan could stop the bars from moving. Both came in corners doing about 70 leaning to left or right and the pavement did a dip and the bike wobbled in the back and the bars went nuts. I have never been so scare looking at the pavement and my brain racing try to figure out how to stop this slapping. You never want to know what this feels like. It is horrifying and harley has several thousand lawsuits against them for deaths and injury's. Road racer guys say it comes from the rear of the bike and moves forward and I would have to agree with them. The after market world has come up with a fix for the harleys but if harley admits there right then they will lock there doors from paying people off. I don't know if a vision will do a tank slapper and I pay to God that none of us ever finds out.
As far as hitting the end of the handles bars doing 85 instead get a gun and play Russian roulette would be the same thing |
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Cruiser
Posts: 161
Oregon. | Nope, not going to try it, and to echo others, where is the video. |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 802
| I had just bought a new '09 Street Glide and was riding on one of our local freeways. The road made a transition from one freeway to another and there was a longitudinal pavement joint where they came together. I rode over that at about 75 mph and the bike went into the biggest bar slapper I have ever encountered. It only lasted about a sec but scared the ever-loving crap out of me. If you've never experienced being completely out of control you have no idea what its like. I don't ever want to go through that again. On the Vision I've hit all kinds of pavement irregularities and it just rides over them like they weren't there. I would imagine the biggest difference is the fact that ours has such a big hunk of solid aluminum as a frame versus the Harley's traditional steel tubes. No way the Vision is gonna flex.
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Visionary
Posts: 4278
| <p> </p><p>Yes you never want to know what it feels like <br /></p>
Edited by john frey 2011-10-31 12:19 PM
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Cruiser
Posts: 284
mansfield, MA United States | I remember a couple years ago someone had a video from a Vision that tank slapped and went down. I think her was doing about 60-70 mph. He got banged up but walked away from it. But once it started he could not stop it. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 284
mansfield, MA United States | http://www.vision-riders.com/bb/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=4346&pos...
This might make you re think trying it. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 51
Edmonton AB, Canada | My smaller Suzuki cruiser with a fork mounted windshield has given me two full 30 sec tank slappers when leaned over in the mountains, one of them was while passing a semi. I'm sure it was wind grabbing the windshield as keeping steady speed a nd straightening fixed It. Shit my pants though! I bought the Vision because I wanted a bigger highway bike with a full fairing and the Vision feels way more solid in wind while leaned over. My advice is ride it out, don't ease off the throttle. |
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