I've just been told this amazing story. Happened yesterday when a bunch of guys were on their way back riding from Mazatlan to Guadalajara in México.

One of my friends recently bought a brand new Ultra and on his way up to Mazatlan he felt that the motorcycle was wobbling above 60mph... Well he reached their destination with that concern and since the cruising speed there in Mazatlan are very low (thousands of bikes gather there every year) he had no problems. Yesterday on their way back home he talked to another friend of us that is the actual owned of a couple of dealerships that his bike was wobbling over 60mph and that it was being a pain in the ***.

The dealership's owner told him that they could switch bikes in order to check the bike and try to find the root cause. So riding back on a very long straight segment of the highway, the guy testing the bike decides to check it out... he took the bike up to 110mph... big mistake... the bike wobbled so much that catapulted our friend up in the air, he and the bike took extremely different paths...

110mph no bullchit, he got away with some scratches and severe conective tissue damage (nothing irreversible) on a knee!!! They lifted the bike and against all odds, it fired up and they brought it back all the way riding... pretty messed up but just cosmetically...

How is that for a severe debt with the guy upstairs???

Incredible,

Mimo.

 

If a bike has an issue at decent speeds, why in the world would you want to "test" it at 110 mph.....I'm just gonna leave my thought at that. Glad your buddy wasn't killed.

 

Tell him he's only got 6 lives left!!!

 

do you know what sucks about the whole thing is that if he could've stayed in the throttle the wobble would've gone away at 115 to 120. glad he's ok, i tore my acl, pcl and destroyed my meniscus all at the same time and they rebuilt it and it works just like new now, so he'll be fine.

 

As the saying goes: I'd rather be lucky than good !!

 

Guy had an angel looking over him... no doubt.

 

totally agree with you guys on that... wrong move and right day his guardian angel was fast enough... apparently his thought was to take it higher and see if if the wobbling was just around the 60mph speed... anyway, who am I to judge, he has been a biker his entire life and he isway older than me, he is prolly over 65.

Yeap, glad he wasn´t killed,

Mimo.

 

Hey, glad yer friend is ok...but gotta agree with others...takin a scoot with "wobble" problems up to 110 is just plain stoopid. Did he, by any chance, go out and buy lotto tickets afterwards? I woulda!

 

Glad he wasn't the owner of a couple of airplane dealerships and wanted to take the plane up to find out why the engine cuts out once in a while......

 

now that you... is he a Cessna dealer aswell? can´t recall...

Mimo.