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RE: Tankslapper.
(06-02-2015, 09:16 PM)captainsparkledotcom Wrote:
(06-02-2015, 12:07 AM)Shooie Wrote: In my youth, and early days on motorbike, I remember the somewhat older guys telling us young pups tales of tankslappers.. and their advice at the time was... if you got one accelerate out of it.  
Hmmmm..  
Luckily I never experienced a full-blown tankslapper.. but had more than a few wobbly moments due to front forks being filled with 10% oil and 90% water.  Well no one told me that fork seals could fail !!!!!!   lol..

That was what I was told, too!



(06-02-2015, 08:26 PM)Steady the Edward Wrote: All I know about them is if one of my bikes gets one , it will have a for sale sign slapped  on it on its return home if it makes it that far ,

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Eddy! New avatar!
Are you going to Ilkley?

Cap Sparkle.. and we lived to tell the tale Smile or the "stories" of dering-do tankslappers.
08-02-2015, 01:03 AM
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Messages In This Thread
Tankslapper. - by SILJA - 06-01-2015, 02:11 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by c iom tt - 06-01-2015, 02:28 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by kev125 - 06-01-2015, 02:31 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Alfie Noakes - 06-01-2015, 02:38 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Amsterdam - 06-01-2015, 05:14 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by dommyman - 06-01-2015, 05:32 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Amsterdam - 07-01-2015, 09:00 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by c iom tt - 06-01-2015, 02:48 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Alfie Noakes - 06-01-2015, 06:06 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Amsterdam - 06-01-2015, 08:59 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by SILJA - 07-01-2015, 03:12 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Malcolm - 07-01-2015, 09:06 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Alfie Noakes - 07-01-2015, 11:50 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by desmophile - 08-01-2015, 02:44 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Shooie - 06-02-2015, 12:07 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by captainsparkledotcom - 06-02-2015, 09:16 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Shooie - 08-02-2015, 01:03 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Steady the Edward - 06-02-2015, 08:26 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Alfie Noakes - 07-02-2015, 09:22 PM
RE: Tankslapper. - by serowmaster - 08-02-2015, 02:48 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Shooie - 09-02-2015, 01:54 AM
RE: Tankslapper. - by Steady the Edward - 08-02-2015, 12:15 AM



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