Rider hits a pothole at 130mph, wobble ensues!! Kawasaki Ninja ZX6R AKA Tank Slapper Wobble of Death Weave For licensing or usage, contact licensing@viralhog.com
Seriously tho, fucking send it. Wobbles like the one in this video usually come from riders not knowing their roads. The roads in this video look very shitty, just like in my city. What happens a lot is that people will either put their weight on their handle bars or they'll slight pull their bars to the right while they have the throttle pinned. At those speeds all it takes is a little bump in the road to pop your front wheel up just enough to slightly turn and when it comes back into contact with the ground at that slight angle it begins to buck or wobble. The wobbling is the front suspension trying to stabilize itself. Most people's natural reaction is to either let off of the throttle or hit the brakes or both, which are the exact opposite of what needs to happen to correct it. Breaking, coasting, pulling in the clutch all result in more weight and chaotic energy being put on that front wheel and suspension. People think it sounds crazy when you say that you need to throttle out of it but it's physics. By giving it throttle you are squatting the rear of the bike and raising the front which allows the forks to fully extend and reset/stabalize. You don't need to romp a big wheelie or even pull the front wheel off the ground necessarily. The whole idea is to raise the front end and allow the forks to extend to relieve the front suspension of the absolute chaos it's dealing with. It's best to know your roads tho so you don't have to deal with unnecessary slappers. Hope this saves someone!!!
Sportbikes? If not you'll likely never get one. This is mostly due to the sportbike's forks geometry. Its part of why they handle so well but also comes with that instability. People say to gas out of it or do this or that. I can tell you, if you get a true tank slapper, your're not doing shit but holding on with whatever you can.
All they found was pink paste, which slowly turned into dark-red paste. Wear your safety gear, folks, unless you want to turn into pink paste that fades into a dark-red paste.
The motorcycle acts as a gyroscope so when this happens just hold on and try to remain calm and the motorcycle will correct itself. Good job to this guys, he might have shit his pants but he maintained his composure
Not entirely correct when you say to hold on. If you hold tight you will make it worse, you need to relax your grip instead and hold onto the bike with your legs and it will settle down a lot quicker. Easier said than done when you're in panic mode of course.
people who says do this do that in a wobble situation never got in one.The thing is so violent that it feels like it will rip your arms off the forces are so big that a human cant handle.
Easier said than done but you need keep hold of bar grip with ya knees and keep a steady throttle or power out of the wobble tank slapper letting go and letting bike sort it self out at this point wound be very bave give it some gas and let bike do what it wants
When I ride at 130mph, I ALWAYS strip to the minimum in safety gear so I'll look really cool right before hitting the deck. Especially in polyester Adidas sweat pants. Just kidding because my current bikes can go well over 130 so it's flip flops, a speedo and a tank top all the way!
Hey! I wear Adidas polyester track pants when I ride. But I have Kevlar sliders underneath, is that cheating? 😆 they do call them “track” pants for a reason right?
In engineering we call this concept the oscillation dampening. Each vehicle has its own inherent oscillation which is mathematically controlled by engineers during design. They purposefully add some bit of oscillation because it allows for human corrections. However, there is an underdamped state, which means the oscillations continue and create a sine-like wave, the frequency, or how fast it oscillates can depend on the object. In this example, it seems like a good example of those one-off situations where the bike goes into an underdamped state. However, like the person demonstrated, all oscillations eventually die down and straighten out. So you need to stay neutral yourself, and make sure the bike naturally goes into its natural balanced state. Please don't be afraid if this happens in real life, as long as you feel that after each oscillation the vehicle is starting to straighten out a bit then you're fine. On the other hand, if you feel that it's getting progressively worse with each oscillation, then start adding your own manual input, but only a touch. If you go left, for example, don't go hard right to counter it, or else you enter in a bigger oscillation. You'll be fine as long as you know not to over react.
Like he says don't panic. My bike would do that and instead of grabbing with all my might I would let go just a light touch on the steering and the bike will straighten itself out.
Not sure what ATGATT means, but he's right. This dude would have had his shit peeled to the bone, and would be lucky to survive. Darwin at it's finest.
@Michael James - All The Gear, All The Time. It's what most riders who have crashed or have half a brain wear when they ride. Most of us also recognize that going fast in a straight line on a bike that was made to do 160mph (or better) isn't impressive, and doing it in traffic is fucking stupid. Skills in the canyons are what get my respect. I hope he bent a rim.
When that happens, you don't fight it. It's the natural physics of the motorcycle. It will always correct itself hold on with your knees and let it wobble. If you fight it you will make it worse. I used to get going and slap the handle bars making it do that and sit up and not touch the bars at all to show people it will always fix itself. never try to control it let it happen.
@@touristguy87 you probably never ridden hard enough for this to happen, I've had this at 140mph on my fzr1000exup. If you don't have any steering damper small bumps and ripples in the road will trigger the bike to shake its head. Will also need to check you still have front brakes afterwards too because you will more than likely have pushed the pads back from the front disc.
First two weeks of owning my first bike I was at a stop light trying to show off to some girl in a car next to me, Im reving my bike and then it turns green and I accidently pop the clutch at like 8k rpm full up wheelie while accelerating brought it down bounced back up and did another wheelie brought it down going about 35-40 now and got a tank slapper, I somehow recovered after almost side swipping the cute girls car. I still wonder if they thought I did it on purpose. Hmmm.
I had the same thing happen with a shopping cart at the grocery store. Man those front wheels were slapping like crazy. Never did I think an ill placed bag of dog food would have such an effect on the handling.
@@Tiago-mb4lv These vaginas think riding a motorcycle to begin with gets you a Darwin award, then they go drink 70 proof liver cancer juice and text and drive.
@@ihateeverything3972 I hate fucking pinecones that that think riding a motorcycle automatically makes someone an idiot, no it’s actually the cagers doing stupid stuff that makes riding bikes so dangerous. Like Tiago said, tank slappers aren’t caused by something stupid the rider does, the guy hit a pothole. Granted he was doing twice the speed limit but still, they need to reserve the Darwin award for the kind of people to eat grease super saturated big fat mac daddy burgers with extra large diet coke, who then smoke a pack of camels and chug grey goose with their congress of fellow morbidly obese Karens on the way to pick up their kids from school.
I got the same year and color... 2013 636. When I 1st got it years ago I had a few wobbles and 2 very very close calls from them. I have learned how to avoid them entirely without a steering dampener now. I had one just as violent as this one in the video but not for as long. Basically you just let off the throttle entirely and hang on but not too tight and it works itself out. One time I was on a backroad and sent it harder than I should've and ran into a TON of potholes, that's the one that almost put me down. I don't even understand how I didnt lay it down that time, but that was the one that shook me up the hardest.
Thankful for the people explaining the motorcycle will correct itself. Wouldn’t have known otherwise and could possible save my life one day in the future. 🤟🏽
@@dylcana4122 think of it like a gyroscope when the head it shaking like that. If you hold with your legs and go with it, the front with level out over some distance. Just a really scary situation and no matter how many times I tell you this, the first time it happens you're gonna shit yourself. But just try to remember.
Being a teenager in the 1970s, my first encounter with a speed wobble was on a skateboard doing a bomber downhill run which took the skin off my young knees. Fast forward to the 1990s I was riding big bikes (ZZR1100 among others) and it was often a flashback hoping that doesn't happen on two wheels at 150mph+ but at that speed you're just going with the force. Glad to get past that and live to remember it.
On a dirt bike we call these "tank-slappers", and they're scary enough at 30 miles per hour. One hundred and thirty mph; that's a whole new level of terror.
@@paulkigamba2885 >"Bob" You didn't have to tell me you were an anti-white big0t but you did it anyway with that little quip. If only your kind took that kind of initiative on job applications instead of casual racism then maybe you wouldn't NEED affirmative action to stand a chance in the workplace lmao
If I saw my buddy recover like that I would jump off and hug that man. Riding buddies are family and that was a scary encounter. Well done by that rider to stay calm and not over correct
@@uhtred7860 no it’s a damper you put on the handle bars to the frame to to keep the steering tight - a motorcycle turns by leaning not by turning the handle bars like a bicycle
@@shawnconnolly5525 LOl yeah, i know what a hydraulic steering damper is, i have one on my R1, just never heard anyone call it a "wheel stabilizer" :-))) Also a bike turns by counter steering, a bike that had its headstock welded up wouldnt turn at all no matter how far you leaned.
In a T-shirt?... I just... I can't... okay, kids, listen. It's your life; you can do what you want! But this guy came THIS CLOSE to leaving a wet streak of hamburger a quarter mile long, and since his helmet would likely have kept his brain intact, he would spend the rest of his life with the mental faculties to remember with perfect clarity what life was like back when he had skin and muscles. I really hope this incident will cause him to make better choices, but, based on my own experiences as a younger man, I know it's more likely he came out of this feeling even more invincible than ever before.
damn touristguy87 you're so tough you're such a manly man i bet you just love hitting pavement at 130 mph huh it probably gets you off i bet you probably come to the thought of your skin being quickly scraped and removed like a high speed sander
Happened on my r6 a long time ago... Tank slapped the hell out of me. Scariest experience on a freeway I've ever had. I actually refuse to ride on that stretch of road due to that. Glad your friend made it out alright. I was lucky and there was a gap in traffic that prevented me from slamming into anyone
I had this yesterday at around 120mph. I get little ones all the time and I don’t think about it - this time it was bad. Lasted about 15 seconds and probably a bit worse than in the video. Not going to lie, was the scariest moment of my life. You have no control in what direction you are going - I was on a little country lane at midnight not in a nice open motorway. Closed the throttle a little and managed to save it. I then instantly pulled over lol.
Been there, done that into a corner into a pile of boulders. Flipped the Harley about three times and flew 30-50 feet. Landed on my head into a huge puddle about 1/2 Mile from bridal falls in alaska, but still alive thanks to a freind who gave me some quality riding gear a couple days before. Glad that you saved it without incident. Stay safe and ride straight.
This same thing happened to me on my 1975 trial hurricane. It went into a speed wobble at 70 mph, every time I hit 70 it would start this people. This is a really really scary situation.
My 13 636 did that once when the front came up just enough for the tire to barely skim over the road. Bought a GPR...hasn't happened since. Nice save btw
To make you guys feel less worried, there are cases in motorbike racing in which the bikes would still go on running despite the driver crashing out. Let the bike do its thing, slow down, and always remember to calm yourself.
True, just want to point out that by "slow down" you don't actually want to hit the brakes, just let engine compression slow the bike down. Braking will destabilize the wobble and lay it down; just let go of the bars, squeeze your knees, and let the bike do its thing, it'll be fine. Like you said there are plenty of instances of the bike just going on its on after losing its rider. They're engineered to just keep going in a straight line standing up when no other forces are acting on them 👍
Putting your head down as low as possible reduces drag and allows the bike to recover much faster. Head down, throttle off, relax grip, hold on to the bike with your knees and don't touch the front brake clutch or gears. You can feather the rear brake to dampen momentum but do not stand on it or attempt to bring the bike to a stop. The bike will recover
During the wobble, right after he passes the black sedan, he gives it a squeeze of gas and it immediately straightens out, then he begins to let off the gas again and it continues to wobble. Important to note
when this happens, you gotta relax your arms. they will act as dampers for the steering and the bike will correct it self. if you are veering toward an obstacle, the you gotta shift your weight left or right to steer the bike
He was definitely fighting it, thats why the wobble transfered to the rear, had he just let it do its thing, it wouldve corrected itself almost instantly. Has happened to me countless times, all i do is stop putting input into the bars, still hold on, but with the strength of a wet noodle... always straightens itself out in just a second or two.
@@joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh respectfully, we don’t know that. He could have a bad front wheel balance, incorrect tire pressure, faulty dampener etc etc. In my humble opinion, with what we can see, he did the best he could. I have seen wobbles persist with no one even touching the handlebars.
Houston drivers are morons, don't signal when changing lanes, tailgate like no tomorrow and bikers are idiots like in the video. Other than that it's a great city!
I wouldn't even dream of driving at this speed on a busy motorway in training pants, a t-shirt and low-top sports shoes. But these heroes probably won't learn this sooner than until they're sanded to the bone and lie on the asphalt with several open fractures.
Rider immediately pulled out to the side of the road to change his diaper.
Ahahahaha
Real
HHAHAHHAHAHA
LMAOO🤣
That's sure😂
When you wobble at that speed, you just gotta make your peace with god.
The irony of this is that there was a time when speed-wobbles were fairly common. Did you ever stop to think of why that's no longer the case?
touristguy87 motorcycle engineering, better roads, steering dumpers to name a few.
Fuck that send it
Just try keep leaning your body forward.
Seriously tho, fucking send it. Wobbles like the one in this video usually come from riders not knowing their roads.
The roads in this video look very shitty, just like in my city.
What happens a lot is that people will either put their weight on their handle bars or they'll slight pull their bars to the right while they have the throttle pinned.
At those speeds all it takes is a little bump in the road to pop your front wheel up just enough to slightly turn and when it comes back into contact with the ground at that slight angle it begins to buck or wobble.
The wobbling is the front suspension trying to stabilize itself.
Most people's natural reaction is to either let off of the throttle or hit the brakes or both, which are the exact opposite of what needs to happen to correct it.
Breaking, coasting, pulling in the clutch all result in more weight and chaotic energy being put on that front wheel and suspension.
People think it sounds crazy when you say that you need to throttle out of it but it's physics.
By giving it throttle you are squatting the rear of the bike and raising the front which allows the forks to fully extend and reset/stabalize.
You don't need to romp a big wheelie or even pull the front wheel off the ground necessarily.
The whole idea is to raise the front end and allow the forks to extend to relieve the front suspension of the absolute chaos it's dealing with.
It's best to know your roads tho so you don't have to deal with unnecessary slappers.
Hope this saves someone!!!
I’ve rode motorcycles my entire life and never had this happen. Thank the lord
Once in my early biking career, it scared the shit out of me
Has nothing to do with the lord.
@@velhonen lmao ever hear of sarcasm bud? Delete your stupid comment
@@velhonen stfu let other people have their beliefs
Sportbikes? If not you'll likely never get one. This is mostly due to the sportbike's forks geometry. Its part of why they handle so well but also comes with that instability. People say to gas out of it or do this or that. I can tell you, if you get a true tank slapper, your're not doing shit but holding on with whatever you can.
sensibly dressed for 130mph, they found his head un touched the rest of him was spread out down the road like jam
haha
Maybe his lack of gear is why he was so determined to not go down?
It's not funny but anyway if we trust Christ we just respawn in heaven
All they found was pink paste, which slowly turned into dark-red paste. Wear your safety gear, folks, unless you want to turn into pink paste that fades into a dark-red paste.
The motorcycle acts as a gyroscope so when this happens just hold on and try to remain calm and the motorcycle will correct itself. Good job to this guys, he might have shit his pants but he maintained his composure
Not entirely correct when you say to hold on. If you hold tight you will make it worse, you need to relax your grip instead and hold onto the bike with your legs and it will settle down a lot quicker. Easier said than done when you're in panic mode of course.
people who says do this do that in a wobble situation never got in one.The thing is so violent that it feels like it will rip your arms off the forces are so big that a human cant handle.
yeah because gyroscopes never crash
you need to study rake dude....
Easier said than done but you need keep hold of bar grip with ya knees and keep a steady throttle or power out of the wobble tank slapper letting go and letting bike sort it self out at this point wound be very bave give it some gas and let bike do what it wants
Glad to see he was wearing the appropriate gear in case of a fall. Those cotton t shirts are a life saver I heard 🤔😅
Hey some people just REALLY want to experience skin grafts for themselves i guess. :-)
@@uhtred7860 just imagine, at 100+ mph he's skin peels off like the breading at Popeyes chicken.
@@tsrmmercy836 bruh
@@spidermonk3uVvwy8-2 I agree with your name
by gear you mean diapers?
Drove home at 35 for sure
I wonder if he was questioning his outfit choice during that wobble 😂
This man has had a solid conversation with god and convinced the man to let him live
He probably just didn't want him.
this comment is somewhat confusing. who convinced who?
@@Andrew-kl1pl the guy convinced god to let him live
@@wimeatsworld thats not how God works, you and the 12 people who liked your comment, have a lot of studies to do
@@weneedhim526 ofcourse, god works by letting terrorists kill innocent babies, doesn't he?
When I ride at 130mph, I ALWAYS strip to the minimum in safety gear so I'll look really cool right before hitting the deck. Especially in polyester Adidas sweat pants.
Just kidding because my current bikes can go well over 130 so it's flip flops, a speedo and a tank top all the way!
🤣🤣🤣
Meat Crayons gonna meat crayon.
one way to instantly die and ngl its a good way to die
Hey! I wear Adidas polyester track pants when I ride. But I have Kevlar sliders underneath, is that cheating? 😆 they do call them “track” pants for a reason right?
This comment made my day hahahahaha
In engineering we call this concept the oscillation dampening. Each vehicle has its own inherent oscillation which is mathematically controlled by engineers during design. They purposefully add some bit of oscillation because it allows for human corrections. However, there is an underdamped state, which means the oscillations continue and create a sine-like wave, the frequency, or how fast it oscillates can depend on the object. In this example, it seems like a good example of those one-off situations where the bike goes into an underdamped state. However, like the person demonstrated, all oscillations eventually die down and straighten out. So you need to stay neutral yourself, and make sure the bike naturally goes into its natural balanced state.
Please don't be afraid if this happens in real life, as long as you feel that after each oscillation the vehicle is starting to straighten out a bit then you're fine. On the other hand, if you feel that it's getting progressively worse with each oscillation, then start adding your own manual input, but only a touch. If you go left, for example, don't go hard right to counter it, or else you enter in a bigger oscillation. You'll be fine as long as you know not to over react.
Underrated
This is definitely going to be what I’m thinking when I start to get speed wobbles at 130 mph. That or, “oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit”
Like he says don't panic. My bike would do that and instead of grabbing with all my might I would let go just a light touch on the steering and the bike will straighten itself out.
@@Bouldergoat LMFAOO
Calling it a steel horse isn't just cool. It's a technique. Keep your knees pinned to your tank and a light touch on the handle bars.
Riding a motorcycle at 130 in short sleeves? Shortlisted for the Darwin Award.
saved by jogging pants, tennis shoes, t-shirt, and no gloves, with a helmet protecting a brain that isn't there
Guy Incognito, always in EVERY video.
Not sure what ATGATT means, but he's right. This dude would have had his shit peeled to the bone, and would be lucky to survive. Darwin at it's finest.
@Michael James - All The Gear, All The Time. It's what most riders who have crashed or have half a brain wear when they ride. Most of us also recognize that going fast in a straight line on a bike that was made to do 160mph (or better) isn't impressive, and doing it in traffic is fucking stupid. Skills in the canyons are what get my respect. I hope he bent a rim.
Amen!
Does he even jog?
This dude finally figured out the answer to the age old question "Do farts have lumps?"
I laughed way to hard at this!! Lmfao
haha, that's a good one :D
@@chriskey7426 Us
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The fact this was caught on camera is amazing. Glad he saved his own life
Pretty sure this was on God though
"Is this where it all ends"
"NO! MY NAME IS GOIVANI GORGIO, BUT EVERYONE CALLS MY GORGIO"
When that happens, you don't fight it. It's the natural physics of the motorcycle. It will always correct itself hold on with your knees and let it wobble. If you fight it you will make it worse. I used to get going and slap the handle bars making it do that and sit up and not touch the bars at all to show people it will always fix itself. never try to control it let it happen.
seriously thank god i knew this information before it happened to me and i did exactly that. Thanks to motojitsu that guy saved my life
Yessir, take pride in your craft and perfect it. You gotta stay a learner
@@wildae. that's because you're an idiot. The bike wobbles because it is unstable. When you slap the bars you are trying to destabilize a stable bike.
@@touristguy87 i knew it was unstable, where i live in takes time to find and import parts but why do you call me idiot
@@touristguy87 you probably never ridden hard enough for this to happen, I've had this at 140mph on my fzr1000exup. If you don't have any steering damper small bumps and ripples in the road will trigger the bike to shake its head. Will also need to check you still have front brakes afterwards too because you will more than likely have pushed the pads back from the front disc.
First two weeks of owning my first bike I was at a stop light trying to show off to some girl in a car next to me, Im reving my bike and then it turns green and I accidently pop the clutch at like 8k rpm full up wheelie while accelerating brought it down bounced back up and did another wheelie brought it down going about 35-40 now and got a tank slapper, I somehow recovered after almost side swipping the cute girls car. I still wonder if they thought I did it on purpose. Hmmm.
😂😂
This is because you had more Neural connections, than them.
It depended on the look on your face. Smug confidence-you nailed it. Abject terror - oops
“Showing off”?
Nobody is impressed by that...
@@bncspeaker some are
I had the same thing happen with a shopping cart at the grocery store. Man those front wheels were slapping like crazy. Never did I think an ill placed bag of dog food would have such an effect on the handling.
stolen comment from another bike wobble video. u saw they had 10k likes so u copy pasted it here lol
I saw the same exact comment but with cat food
@@WinterMan. STOLEN VALOR!
Thief exposed
"Dress for the slide not the ride" one of the wisest things I've ever heard.
Achievement unlocked: tank slap at 130mph while lane splitting in windbreakers.
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Highest squid achievement 😂
One of them almost unlocked: Skin grafts, pain and a long stay in hospital.
achievement unlocked: Stupidity if you think this is 130 mph instead of 130 km.
I see a biker that saves tankslapper at 200kmh
Achievement unlocked: Platinum Level Darwin Award
jslime some comments deserve rewards
He still here tho
WObbles aren't caused by being dumb, they can randomly happen at high speeds. Watch Motorcycle GPs, it happens my dude.
@@Tiago-mb4lv
These vaginas think riding a motorcycle to begin with gets you a Darwin award, then they go drink 70 proof liver cancer juice and text and drive.
@@ihateeverything3972 I hate fucking pinecones that that think riding a motorcycle automatically makes someone an idiot, no it’s actually the cagers doing stupid stuff that makes riding bikes so dangerous. Like Tiago said, tank slappers aren’t caused by something stupid the rider does, the guy hit a pothole. Granted he was doing twice the speed limit but still, they need to reserve the Darwin award for the kind of people to eat grease super saturated big fat mac daddy burgers with extra large diet coke, who then smoke a pack of camels and chug grey goose with their congress of fellow morbidly obese Karens on the way to pick up their kids from school.
I got the same year and color... 2013 636. When I 1st got it years ago I had a few wobbles and 2 very very close calls from them. I have learned how to avoid them entirely without a steering dampener now. I had one just as violent as this one in the video but not for as long. Basically you just let off the throttle entirely and hang on but not too tight and it works itself out. One time I was on a backroad and sent it harder than I should've and ran into a TON of potholes, that's the one that almost put me down. I don't even understand how I didnt lay it down that time, but that was the one that shook me up the hardest.
09-12 zx6 came with factory öhlins steering dampener. Saved me from ever entering a wobble when one should've occurred.
Probably sold the bike the next day lmao
yo what are you doing here love ur stuff bro
lol didn´t think i´d see you here xD
He was just mixing up the fuel 😂
most underrated comment
and here i thought he was getting his tires warmed up
That's what I do when I add fuel injector cleaner to the tank..... except at 0mph not 130mph
it's a four stroke smh
@SimplyMoose underated cause it doesn't make sense. theyre all 4 stroke on street
Happened to me on my 636 going over 160mph.
Immediately accepted death and went limp.
Worked itself out in like 3-5 seconds.
Lol. Glad you’re okay. I’ve had it happen and it’s not a good time.
Jfc dude that sounds beyond terrifying. I’ll stick with 4 wheels fuck that
"Immediately accepted death", that's one hell terrific experience
@@goodgoodlyrics4471 It changes you...
bet those 3-5 felt a lot longer
Love how the silver car guy understand the situation and gave space for him.
Good for you for powering out of the wobble I had the same wobble at a 100 + and when I power through it it smoothed out. Glad your safe.
Thankful for the people explaining the motorcycle will correct itself. Wouldn’t have known otherwise and could possible save my life one day in the future. 🤟🏽
This has happened to me before and I know that the bike will correct itself from personal experience
@@ploperdung why does it happen?
@@ploperdung do you just let go of the handles or hold them lightly
@@Venom_Jayson Hold them lightly, and tbh they don't need to even be held that lightly, just more or less like you'd normally hold them.
@@dylcana4122 think of it like a gyroscope when the head it shaking like that. If you hold with your legs and go with it, the front with level out over some distance. Just a really scary situation and no matter how many times I tell you this, the first time it happens you're gonna shit yourself. But just try to remember.
I know that scare... Your heart is pounding out of your throat for 15 minutes after!
No i crashed
Hey, I thought you looked familiar!! You made the best commercials!!
How does it even happen? Like how does your bike start doing that
Everyone knows you have to shake a YOOHOO before opening it, my guess is, he was just just thirsty and remembered he had it!!!
Being a teenager in the 1970s, my first encounter with a speed wobble was on a skateboard doing a bomber downhill run which took the skin off my young knees. Fast forward to the 1990s I was riding big bikes (ZZR1100 among others) and it was often a flashback hoping that doesn't happen on two wheels at 150mph+ but at that speed you're just going with the force. Glad to get past that and live to remember it.
On a dirt bike we call these "tank-slappers", and they're scary enough at 30 miles per hour. One hundred and thirty mph; that's a whole new level of terror.
I started riding dirt bikes at 10. Haven't rode a bike since 22. Thank the lord this never happened to me...
“He was a good responsible man who didn’t deserve this”
🧢
"Always kept the speed limit, he was a stickler for the rules, good ol Bob" sob sob😢💦🤧
@@paulkigamba2885 >"Bob"
You didn't have to tell me you were an anti-white big0t but you did it anyway with that little quip.
If only your kind took that kind of initiative on job applications instead of casual racism then maybe you wouldn't NEED affirmative action to stand a chance in the workplace lmao
Somehow I read this in Morgan Freeman's voice.
@@GalluZ
Somehow I read this in Big Smoke’s voice
Thank god he was wearing appropriate safety gear: T-shirt and athletic shoes while endangering the public.
motorcyclist: your cars gonna kill us
also motorcyclist:
Just the sign to start using protective gear
Liked your comment just for your profile pic 😂
If I saw my buddy recover like that I would jump off and hug that man. Riding buddies are family and that was a scary encounter. Well done by that rider to stay calm and not over correct
Yeah, totally. Well done for nearly hitting that car and fucking up that driver's day.
@@alexg1778 Or wrecking and ending his life, neither of which happened. Good day for everyone!
@@drummer12films nah, the guy on the bike would've deserved that. Couldn't give a fuck about him.
@@alexg1778 Aw boohoo, did a biker steal your girl and now you have to compensate?
riding like idiots
Wearing a T-Shirt? Bro would have been a road crayon if he fell off
just hold on loosely, but dont let goooooo.
if you cling to tightly, your gonna lose control
that song will save your life.
He's got a really big will to live. 😂
Your mind has to have a lot of resilience and awareness to have this kind of will. Upper level of consciousness than most people.
@@Boiproduction3 i see some truth here
Wheel stabilizer definitely needed - those tank slappers are scary 💯
Wheel stabilizer?? WTF is one of those? like training wheels that little kids have on their pushbikes?
@@uhtred7860 no it’s a damper you put on the handle bars to the frame to to keep the steering tight - a motorcycle turns by leaning not by turning the handle bars like a bicycle
@@shawnconnolly5525 LOl yeah, i know what a hydraulic steering damper is, i have one on my R1, just never heard anyone call it a "wheel stabilizer" :-)))
Also a bike turns by counter steering, a bike that had its headstock welded up wouldnt turn at all no matter how far you leaned.
@@uhtred7860 you asked like a knob so I had to put it into knob terminology so you could understand - you probably have a 300CC R1 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂
@@shawnconnolly5525 AWWW don't be like that, wheres ya sense of humour? :-))
plot twist, he didn't know that remaining calm will eventually lead to the bike correcting itself, he just accepted his fate
And dude is wearing a short sleeve, because of course he is. Near Darwin award winner.
In a T-shirt?... I just... I can't... okay, kids, listen.
It's your life; you can do what you want! But this guy came THIS CLOSE to leaving a wet streak of hamburger a quarter mile long, and since his helmet would likely have kept his brain intact, he would spend the rest of his life with the mental faculties to remember with perfect clarity what life was like back when he had skin and muscles.
I really hope this incident will cause him to make better choices, but, based on my own experiences as a younger man, I know it's more likely he came out of this feeling even more invincible than ever before.
shut the fuck up you lying whiny bitch
yeah sure he would have gotten some road-rash but nothing like what you're saying
just shut the fuck up
ooh, look at Mr. Internet Hardass. You're going to get hurt a lot worse than "a bit of road rash" dumping off a bike at 100+ mph.
jz78817 no one is saying that but you fuckhead
touristguy87 ok then, take a dive at 100 mph
damn touristguy87 you're so tough you're such a manly man i bet you just love hitting pavement at 130 mph huh it probably gets you off i bet you probably come to the thought of your skin being quickly scraped and removed like a high speed sander
A regular rider would kiss the tarmac having a wobble like that
Lol I love how his "shit shit shit" is variable with his speed 😂😂😂
Everyone has a plan until they get the wobbles.
-Bike Byson
Hey Asad, may I use this vid in my new compilation? Would that be okay with you? Full Credited of course.
Ofcourse , credit me and send me a link to your video so i can watch it!
Sure! Awesome, thanks man!
@@moto-stars real ass channel for asking if you can use his video without just stealing it. Respect brotha.
Very nice and polite from motostars; should be opposite actually, hey can I be part in your next motostars video.. like this kinda
Assah didn't ask permission from the Americans so why ask him.
“Shit shit shit shit shit” wasn’t an expression, it was a description. He shit his pants.
Happened on my r6 a long time ago... Tank slapped the hell out of me. Scariest experience on a freeway I've ever had. I actually refuse to ride on that stretch of road due to that. Glad your friend made it out alright. I was lucky and there was a gap in traffic that prevented me from slamming into anyone
What year?
No one:
The worm inside of my guts goin crazy:
Wrecked my bike last month going around a hundred, death wobble. The sound of the motorcycle mid wobble gives me PTSD flashbacks lmao
Were you ok?
Legend says rest of the life he rode at 60 kmph!
If you're weaving through traffic at 130, you've entered the realm of natural selection.
I had this yesterday at around 120mph.
I get little ones all the time and I don’t think about it - this time it was bad. Lasted about 15 seconds and probably a bit worse than in the video.
Not going to lie, was the scariest moment of my life. You have no control in what direction you are going - I was on a little country lane at midnight not in a nice open motorway. Closed the throttle a little and managed to save it. I then instantly pulled over lol.
That happened to me once on low speeds, and I almost shit my pants.
Lol 😆
been riding for 6 years happened to me first time in last week and i still can't stop thinking about it.
What causes it?
@@martinrea8548 multiple reasons, i am not expert though, can be problem with suspensions, wheel balance etc.
usually happens after a bump
@@wildae. ok, thanks. Speed is obviously a factor too, eh?
Been there, done that into a corner into a pile of boulders. Flipped the Harley about three times and flew 30-50 feet. Landed on my head into a huge puddle about 1/2 Mile from bridal falls in alaska, but still alive thanks to a freind who gave me some quality riding gear a couple days before. Glad that you saved it without incident. Stay safe and ride straight.
Bike twerks at 130mph
If this happens to you, just remain calm and enjoy the flashbacks of your whole life.
That was a nice stunt, i cant even wiggle my handlebars that fast
Yoooooo my hart rate literally bumped up 20beats watching this.. wild !!! Happy your boi made it out
People in car: oh wow nice stunt man....
You know that squid inked himself.
This same thing happened to me on my 1975 trial hurricane. It went into a speed wobble at 70 mph, every time I hit 70 it would start this people. This is a really really scary situation.
hes going to need to get his bike looked at...and a clean pair of shorts.
I guess he had such a good song playing that the bike wanted to show its appreciation by dancing lol
Dude experience quick-time event like no other.
Kudos goes out to the rider, I died just watching it happen.
hope he bought gears after a crazy experience like that lol.. His adrenaline must be over the roof
actually, i think it was a stream of poo
He saw St.Peter for a moment.
Absolutely wonderful!
This young rider was not ready to leave this world. God kept Him safe.
The engineers who designed the bikes to correct themselves when that happens saved his life actually. That, and him not making panicked motions
My 13 636 did that once when the front came up just enough for the tire to barely skim over the road. Bought a GPR...hasn't happened since. Nice save btw
What's a GPR?
@@juniorcrimebreakers2807 a specific steering dampener
@@talltale9760 thanks
I hit a truck tire at 80mph. I let go of bike and it instantly corrected itself
My guy got stressed and started speaking Chinese...
No problem he was wearing his road rash proof T-shirt 👍💪
To make you guys feel less worried, there are cases in motorbike racing in which the bikes would still go on running despite the driver crashing out. Let the bike do its thing, slow down, and always remember to calm yourself.
True, just want to point out that by "slow down" you don't actually want to hit the brakes, just let engine compression slow the bike down. Braking will destabilize the wobble and lay it down; just let go of the bars, squeeze your knees, and let the bike do its thing, it'll be fine. Like you said there are plenty of instances of the bike just going on its on after losing its rider. They're engineered to just keep going in a straight line standing up when no other forces are acting on them 👍
@@pizzlerot2730- English wasn’t my best suit when I wrote this comment, but I figured I should’ve written “coasting” instead.
The car driver must be thinking what the hell is he doin
Sometimes I like driving cars more than motorcycles 😁
Time to buy a steering damper.
dampener
Chris K, damper* ;)
strictlyformyninja I stand corrected!
Chris K, it's all good bro! :)
strictlyformyninja you're one of the good ones my dude.
DAMN RITE CATCH THAT THANG!!!!!!! FIGHTING FOR UR LIFE AT THAT POINT!! GOOD SAVE BRO!!👍🏾💥💯
Don’t ever wanna experience a death wobble at that speed sheeesh
He will never get an adrenaline shot like that ever again
Putting your head down as low as possible reduces drag and allows the bike to recover much faster.
Head down, throttle off, relax grip, hold on to the bike with your knees and don't touch the front brake clutch or gears. You can feather the rear brake to dampen momentum but do not stand on it or attempt to bring the bike to a stop.
The bike will recover
Imagine dropping it, wearing all that safety gear. What a nice, harmless slide it could've been. ;)
Until a semi runs you over
At least he had on his squid suit.
Morgan Freeman’s voice:
“Billy… was done riding for the day. His heart was going faster than the tach”
During the wobble, right after he passes the black sedan, he gives it a squeeze of gas and it immediately straightens out, then he begins to let off the gas again and it continues to wobble. Important to note
Hello! Would it be okay to use it in moto edit? Full credited of course
No
@yhootoob what you mean
It took you just now to reply it's I joke chill out
Just take lol
No
He pulled right over and thought real deep for a moment after that
I have such a rational fear of wobbling that honestly something like this would have me at the car dealership before the sun is down
when this happens, you gotta relax your arms. they will act as dampers for the steering and the bike will correct it self. if you are veering toward an obstacle, the you gotta shift your weight left or right to steer the bike
That was fucking outstanding skills right there. He got low forward, didn’t fight the bars, rolled off the throttle, fuck man. Outstanding work.
He was definitely fighting it, thats why the wobble transfered to the rear, had he just let it do its thing, it wouldve corrected itself almost instantly. Has happened to me countless times, all i do is stop putting input into the bars, still hold on, but with the strength of a wet noodle... always straightens itself out in just a second or two.
@@joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh respectfully, we don’t know that. He could have a bad front wheel balance, incorrect tire pressure, faulty dampener etc etc. In my humble opinion, with what we can see, he did the best he could. I have seen wobbles persist with no one even touching the handlebars.
All of those moments of "Think Fast" finally paid off
He seemed a rather humble guy after that
A steering damper would have made this a lot less scary
Good ol Houston
Houston drivers are morons, don't signal when changing lanes, tailgate like no tomorrow and bikers are idiots like in the video. Other than that it's a great city!
Even a twitch from the front end feels like a minute of danger on the bike, this must've felt like eternity. Damn
LEGENDS SAY HE IS STILL WOBBLING
I wouldn't even dream of driving at this speed on a busy motorway in training pants, a t-shirt and low-top sports shoes. But these heroes probably won't learn this sooner than until they're sanded to the bone and lie on the asphalt with several open fractures.