"I'm not Dead! I'm not Dead! - Motorcyclist survives death wobble.

[Snattlerake]

Daaaaagone!

Dude is living right. He should go by a lotto ticket!

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hmt-forum/motorcycle_wobble_closecall.mp4

 

[Seadog]

Daaaaagone!

Dude is living right. He should go by a lotto ticket!

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hmt-forum/motorcycle_wobble_closecall.mp4

That is seriously one lucky dude

 

[okiebertt]

Damn!

 

[PBramble]

Daaaaagone!

Dude is living right. He should go by a lotto ticket!

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hmt-forum/motorcycle_wobble_closecall.mp4

He ain't got no luck left after that, he used it ALL up. Forever.

 

[Hodrod]

One lucky dude....!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[swampratt]

For all you guys that have had this head shake on a motorcycle I will say this.

Get your rear tire computer balanced.
Most think it is in the front end and add fork brace or damper etc.

I fought this head shake as did a friend of mine and of course I needed to replace my rear tire.
I did and the head shake went away 100% and I had that tire computer balanced at Ajax.

This guy was lucky, but I bet 100% that he knew that motorcycle had that issue and it got too far away from him that time.

You do a few more donuts and make it worse and then pull this high speed "trick" and it could be the end of you.

My friend took the rear tire off his bike the day I told him I had the head shake fixed and had his balanced at the same place and no more head shake.
We spent many hours trying to fix it.
I could let go of my handlebars at 167 MPH and the bike never shook from that speed until I was at a crawl.
That was as fast as I could get my bike to go but it only took 3/4 mile to get there.
My Nova would out run it. 176 MPH in 3/4 of a mile and no head shake in the Nova either

Do it.

Nice vid @Snattlerake

 

[Catt57]

Damn!

Must be said again...

Damn!

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Uh... Anybody wanna buy a motorcycle? I may not need it any more. Day-um!

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Someone catch the golden brick that guy made! Holy !

 

[cjjtulsa]

I've seen that before - it's amazing he didn't get demolished.

I've also seen videos explaining the death wobble can come from a bike overloaded to the rear; guys will pack a lot of stuff in bags, resulting in a light front and the wobble. They said leaning forward over the tank and shifting your weight to closer to the forks can help get you out of it. That guy's was extreme.