In a message dated 3/20/2005 8:12:28 AM Central Standard Time,
bentechriders@yahoogroups.com writes:

It gets pretty hairy but by careful use of the brakes I
can get out of it. This


I haven't had this experience but would like to share some advice from the
motorcycle world. Whenever a motorcyclist gets involved in a "tank slapper"
(that's where the front wheel is wobbling and the handle bars are oscillating
and alternately coming close or actually hitting the gas tank on either side)
the common wisdom is to let the thing gyro itself out of it. It seems that
riders are seldom quick enough to counter the oscillation and end up making
things worse by trying to make corrections that are a split second too late.
Bicycle speeds are much slower so I don't know if this would work on a bicycle.
I can't think of a painless way to try this out either and you probably
won't be able to shift from one strategy to another in the middle of an
episode.
So . . . I am offering this as food for thought and to see if anyone has had
success with letting go.

Enthusiastically,


Russell A. Zech
Principal Consultant
Learning Facilitators, Inc.
phone: 281-797-2296
fax: 281-564-7564
e-mail: rzech@...
URL www.learnfac.com


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