The Amazing Superbike Tank Slapper and Wobble😱 Best Save Ever! 

Unreal doing 280km/hr and had to literally sit back and watch the handlebars sort themselves out.. crazy.

Imagine sitting back and waiting for your bike to decide your death

Immediately posted to Craigslist after 2:12 : "Sports bike for sale in great condition, just seat a little brown!"

The first dude is like a parent watching his child have a tantrum. He’s like,” are you done now.”

First guy did exactly what your supposed to do, let go of the bars, clench you legs to the tank like your life depends on it and lay on the tank to push the front tire to the ground 🙌🙌

I had a pretty bad wobble yesterday. Scary experience. I’ve had people pull out on me, had the back end slip out mid corner, front wheel slip out mid corner etc etc. But the tank slapper I had yesterday at 120mph was the most scary thing that has ever happened to me. Didn’t help that I was on a British country lane at midnight. Somehow managed to save it, had to stop to change my nappy after haha

These tank slappers are from the other world.....

The one in the tunnel almost had me shite my pants here on the couch 😬

I still impressed with the first guy doing 280 ++ and the bike decided to scare the living hell out of him. And he was like : really dude? That shit ain't gonna scared me you can wobble all you like im gonna sit back and enjoy your wobble

That dude doing wheelies with 260kmph absolut madman😅🤘🏻🤠

Could not believe the guy who just let go and knew exactly how to handle it. Crazy

The laugh at 3:37-3:40 fucking killed mee the sound of pure thankful happines 😂😂😂😂😂😂

This happened to me and I honestly thought I was going to die! I was racing another bike and at about 140mph I had the most violent tank slapper! I can’t describe it other than riding on a mechanical bull. I thought for sure I was going to die and I just held on as tight as I could and it eventually stopped. I’ll be 💯 honest when I say, I don’t know if I’ll ever have the balls to go that fast again and risk getting killed. I’m glad all these people survived.

You can tell how well your bike will handle high speeds by testing your steering at various points. Start at 60 and work your way up. With very little weight or input on the bars, give it a gentle nudge out of alignment (just barely) and see how long it takes for it to stabilize it self. As soon as it takes longer than like 1 second don't ever go above that speed.

It happened to me too. 240 km/h and some sudden small whoops on the road caused that. Hands off the handlebars just in time. The scariest seconds of my life😂

Holy smokes!!! That no handed save was incredible!!! How was he holding on??? Courageous as hell!!! 0:33

I like how the 1st guy has so much faith in physics and his motorcycle lessons that he just let it cancel by itself, even at 280km/h

0:37 laught my ass off in this one. Dude is nuts to let his hands off the handlebar.

That one with the trees on either side. That was the most life and death one for me. Terrifying

2:30 what an amazing save the brakes on this beauty 😍

Just experienced my first tank slapper last night going 125mph on a GSXR-600. Scariest thing I've experienced in my life (on a bike, so far) but thank God I took a safety course or else I wouldn't have been able to correct the bike yeah. I wouldn't be typing this rn

I experienced this at a much slower speed (going down hill) on a Brompton bicycle and it was terrifying. Unfortunately I crashed and was badly injured. Ended up with about 6 fractures and an open wound to my right humerus

I consider myself a chill as ice under pressure. I don’t think I could stay calm and think during a high speed tank slapper. Most these saves seemed lucky, but the guys that knew what to do and then did it, wow.

0:36 I need confidence like this in my life.

He grabbed onto the tank & let the bike decide. CRAZY! An amazing trick I learned at a young age was to never ride @ 177mph. This guy is good!

The first guy had it nailed. I've been riding for 40 years, and I've leant that when it happens, the bike itself is trying its hardest to stabilize itself. ITSELF. I repeat, ''''Itself''', It's trying to stabilize itself on its own. It's natural. Let it do what it needs to do and DON'T TRY TO CORRECT IT whilst it doing it. You'll come out 100%.

I had a pretty scary experience last Monday. I was riding to work on my 125cc yamaha, when suddenly 3 large bumps appeared in front of me on the road. I was going about 70km/h, or 45mp/h and the bumps sent me off in the air. I landed in to a pothole, and then started the death wobbles. Unfortunately the road was in such bad condition, that I wasn't able to control the wobbles and ended up in a ditch. I wasn't wearing any riding pants, only a riding jacket. No major injuries, just some road rash and a very swollen knee. Definitely an eye opening experience. Ride safe everyone.

This is terrifying to a new rider :O

1:42 *Snek mode*

2:35 280 to 0 instantly , wow impressive!

I experienced this, due to riding on poor roads, November last year. I'm still too scared to ride my bike on that road after being thrown off the bike, luckily I recieved no permanent damage except for a small scar on my shoulder and a destroyed helmet

I had a couple modified 750 triple widow makers in the 70s so pretty familiar with tank slappers. I've also had a lot of sport bikes since then and still have a couple along with a touring Harley. I don't know if it's from riding dirt bikes but any time I feel anything quirky going on with the suspension my ass immediately comes off that seat. Transferring almost all your weight from the seat to the pegs around 2' lowers the center of gravity significantly and will almost always stop wobbles or slappers instantly. If you don't do this without thinking just like counter steering it's a good idea to practice it until it is.

All of them should invest in a dampener. Well worth the money💁‍♂️

When you lower the front of your bike or raise the rear you are always tempting this outcome. Not every bike, not every situation, it depends on a lot of factors. One thing that can prevent it is steering damper at the right setting for the bike. A tank slapper happens at a specific frequency for each bike and situation, and even the same make/year/model can be different. Changing ride height, lack of service on steering head or swingarm bearings, crash damage, tire pressures, tire wear, body position, weight distribution (you will notice that many of these happened after wheelies or hard accelerations), many factors. Your bike is not a car, and a sport bike ridden at 150mph+ speeds needs maintenance like a jet fighter does. Long before something goes wrong, and eventually something always does.

I've commented on this elsewhere, i had a regular tank slapper occur on my old trailbike, a Honda XL500RC. Luckily, wide bars plus locking my elbows into my body kept it under control. The front wheel was actually being thrown up off the road at around 65mph. Faster or slower it went away. I replaced the tyres with more tarmac friendly rubber and problem solved. It wasn't balance, it seems the tread blocks had deformed with regular road use, especially braking. I owned that bike for 10 years and never had the problem again. Not in all cases but most of the wobbles in the video were after wheelies when the wheel first hits the road, so i presume tyre deflection has a lot to do wih it.

Road is clear and straight mostly itll be a save. But if it happens on a turn.. god bless you!

0:39 he left it all on his Karma.. 😱😱😱

Honda’s HESD is one of the best dampers if not the best of all time.

I had this happen to me in 1990 riding a Kawasaki GPz1000RX, I was going around a left hand bend at 70mph when my front wheel hit a half brick in the road. The bars were yanked from my hands and I could hear them banging from stop to stop for what seemed like for ever. Luckily the bars stopped moving and I grabbed them and stayed on the bike, I could smell the burnt rubber from the front tyre. I know that 70mph was not that fast but the 1000RX was a 500lb monster!

1:31 "why you going slow brah"

I have the honor of saying that I personally shitted myself on behalf of some of these guys 🤣🤣

That dude just “let go and let god” lol 😂

Just got one that’s why I’m here watching!!!

Shouldn't let go of the bars when it's happening, but never fight it either. Just let off the gas, squeeze the bike with your legs like you're riding a bull so you're not thrown off, and let the front wheel figure itself out. The gyro effect and caster will eventually take over and straighten things out if you don't plow into something first.

Holy shit all those trees lining both sides of that road 😅. The grim reapers idea of a nice straight away.

I've had some really intense tank slappers, the worst was in 1979 I had just bought a detachable clear windshield for my new 1979 Yamaha XS1100 standard. I was testing it trying to find the best position to keep it at and the 3rd time I must have had it on uneven. Anyway it went into a major wobble like it was trying to kill me. Thankfully I didn't go down. Strictly luck not skill kept that bike up. When I got back home I boxed said windshield up and sent it back! I could taste the adrenaline for what seemed like hours after!

That's one fast slapper respect for letting it sort itself out that takes faith and gigantic balls

Had my first wobble experience yesterday. It suddenly started raining an hour before going home and just as I finished the curve it suddenly did the wobble thing. I have nooo idea how I got control back and I am new into riding lmao. Scary as hell but definitely woke me up. I was so ready to fall.

ok thank you, now i have my answer, i always suspected letting go during a wobble was the best move.. thankfully i have never been in a one but if i do, just let go and let faith and physics take over. xD

Just happened to me 30 mins ago!! At 140 mph on super!! Was so scary. After i slowed to 90 mph while celebrating touching my lid. It immediately happened a second time. Saved it. Getting damper immediately

I'm surprised to see these guys survive worse death wobbles unscathed whereas there are others that didn't seem as bad but ended up way worse (one where some dude in China was doing a wheelie, going like 20 mph and then his bike started wabbling to a commercial truck on the opposite lane and then he blows up in pieces on impact, where his head is seen being flunged like 50 yards away on a dashcam), pretty scary and sad situations that can result from the death wobble, again I'm glad to see these guys survive their ordeal from what seems to be impossible.

285kp/h and the bike sorted itself out. There's one thing for sure, God needed him on the planet a little longer.

2:24 actual jump scare

First one is proof that letting go or at the very least completely loosening your grip is the best way to fix speed wobble

Did the same exact thing as the first guy on my CBR 600 years ago (I was at about 100mph though). Thankfully it worked out the same for me

0:48 That Honda has a steering damper from the factory, you can seem the little black plastic cover over the linkage offset to the left of the steering stem, going under the front edge of the tank. This "save" was thanks to the bike.

Now that I think about it, I was far to the left lane next to the highway barrier and either hit debris, dimples or reflectors but I do not think reflectors alone are enough.

Bro at 5:22 is lucky he didn’t wrap himself around one of those trees waiting for him

If you survive the tank slapper itself, always give your front brake a gentle test before gunning it again. The forces created can easily push the brake pistons back into the calipers and you might not have brakes again if you need them.

Every one of these dudes is mad lucky. The second guy with no gear, the dude in the tunnel, the guy on the tree lined road. Damn! Please set your suspension correctly.

A steering damper is good for avoiding the tank slapper

Interesting. I've been riding over 50 years now and had a few slappers in my time. The advice was always "accelerate and get the weight off the front wheel." Never seen that "let go" technique before - looks effective.

Can’t help but to lean watching some of these. Lol

Had this happen on a Harley , now on a sport bike and none yet luckily That slow down from 280 @ 2:35 was honestly impressive

Do steering dampers not do anything ? Or do those bikes not have it

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Geez.. that's terrifying even just to watch, that would probably put me off riding for life. Bet most of them went out and bought top of the shelf steering dampers after that!

Ride safe, he said, and that bloke pulls off by popping a wheelie 😂

Tip : The first and most basic thing to get out of tank slap is to catch it as it starts by using back brakes asap. That obviously puts pressure back down on the front and is your first and easiest bet… Catch it in beginning for experience riders you can wheelie outta it but it all depends. Back brakes!

I dont ride bikes, but my ass is puckering badly just watching this :O

The first clip gave me goosebumps

First one is really have big balls bruh. Look at this dude so calm

I have had a couple of these over the years. The best solution is to fit steering dampers.

I had my first tank slapped about a week ago. I think it was caused by fast acceleration in windy conditions. I say that because the whole time I'm full throttle in 2nd gear I can feel the front wheel sort of hovering about a quarter inch above the street. In 1st gear it just goes up in the air so I don't usually full throttle that gear. I'd say it's time for me to get a steering damper. I never needed one for my Honda CBR600, but my R1 has a ton more acceleration.

Listen, a steering damper isn't gonna stop a tank slapper, it will greatly increase your ability to control one, though. Many of these couldve still happened with one, but couldve been mitigated with one too. There's no disadvantages to having one though 👍.

I had one of these 17 years ago. Hit a nasty bump at about 60mph and bottomed out the forks. Only I didn't save it 🤣 the lessons I learned that day was always wear the best protection you can and especially decent boots, no excuses. I was wearing sneakers that day (i know, but you've all done it) and one ended up over the hedge in a field, the other half way up my leg after my foot came out through the toe end . And my left foot nearly had to be amputated after it was almost completely sheared off. Compound fracture, bone came out of my leg. Tibia and fibia fractured at the bottom, ankle smashed to bits literally and my foot was hanging on by the skin. A gentleman who came to help sat there with me and basically held my foot on as I lay at the side of the road. The surgeons managed to screw it back together but I now have a fused/ no ankle. No more running, from 25 years old I had my ankle fixed at a right angle. I don't think people really think enough about the likelihood of severely injuring themselves riding bikes. The reality of living life with a bad injury really should be taken into account before you decide to go ride out without the proper gear.

0:39 well i guess i'll die

This is pilot!!!

Tank slapper at 284kmh omg😱😱😱

Tank slapper is the worst nightmare for a biker and this guys are facing it😱 Happy to see all of them safe❤

lot of these wobbles are from slamming the front end down when the steerer isnt totally straight. think about it

My body shaking watching this omgg Please be safe guyss

This has never happened to me in my entire life of riding various motorcycles.

That cup holder is amazing 🤣

Best wobble video ever 🤣

yo that shit is crazy... bike was like "dude let me take control and save your life, you suck" and corrected it self lol

Out of all these bikers, guy at 5:00 easily takes the cake for closest to death. Just look at how close he comes to the trees at that speed! Pancake!

1st guy had like 68 tank slappings (yes, I counted each)

Bro! Only half way in, and this is one of the most intense bike videos out there. Its 7:30am on a sunday and i’m watching bike videos if that says anything. Keep putting videos like this together you’ll have a following like moto madness or i forget the name i don’t even watch them anymore those videos got annoying. This however, is pretty epic.

The guy driving the Honda was like "Steve, my man calm down, this happens every other with you"

2:40 wt a control

I know it may be hard to do but actually when you have wobble like that my understanding is you are supposed to let up off of the handlebars at least pressure wise. Still have your hands on them, but let the wheel do it at once. Basically, what’s happening is your front wheel is a gyroscope, and when it wobbles it has gone out of balance, however, it is always trying to restore balance, and it will smooth itself out. It’s happened to me a few times.

When I was driving slowly trough some very loose dry sand with my 1985 Yamaha FZ750 it started wobble like that... But on hard sand gravel roads that bike was a actually very nice and you could drift it going sideways in a very controllable manner ;)

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2:46 they doing 270 in a curved road then have to emergency brake within 100 Meters before they stopped. Scary sh*t

this happened to me when i went full throttle after exiting a corner, the front tire went up abit then shit start getting funky jeez thank god i live

My Ducati hypermoto 1100s had me the other day, frightened the life out of me , 💩💩

HONDA CBR1000RR Nice save~!!

Back in the early eighties I got caught at 112mph (indicated) during a test ride on a friend’s Kawasaki H2C triple. If I slowed, the nasty weave got ugly really quickly, but if I accelerated a bit, it eased. Frankly I was rather frightened. I tried a couple of things, rear brake, shifting weight, but every time it backed down to the sweet spot it started becoming violent. Hateful thing. I was on a dual carriageway so I had some room but there was traffic. I got it to where the weaving had calmed, braced my arms as tight as I could in to my chest (this one had the high US style bars on it) and slammed the brakes on as hard as I could, hoping to ram it down past the wobble speed to where it was happier. It sort of shook itself and flapped the bars violently then it was riding along as if nothing had happened, albeit at a more reasonable speed. For me it felt like a near-death experience. The bike was standard except for bars, double disc conversion and a set of J&R expansion chambers. I know those things have some nasty habits but that one had an attitude.

Only one guy didn't shit his pants in this