Gee I like to see someone let go of the handle bars while in a tank slapper and hang on the tank, with or without a damper, even with a damper you still got to control your handle bars, but a good handling bike with a damper won't get into a tank slapper, but controlling your throttle is also a big part of getting out of a bad tank slapper, some will put more throttle on to power out of one or some will slowly back off till they gain control, but to back off completely could be very dangerous to your health.
I watched a good mate back in the 70s, well I heard him first, on a 750 Kawka with expansion chambers doing a high speed run when he came through a slight bend in a new road being constructed that just been laid with new bitumen a few days earlier and that bike was in a wild tank slapper when I seen him, he tried to power on to get out of it, but the bike had other idea and spat him off at high speed, the bike slid past me still doing high knots and my mate was sliding behind it, it was like slow motion in front of my eyes, my mate only had jeans and T shirt on with a full face helmet and work boots, he stopped sliding right in front of me and the bike was further down the road.
After I picked him up he said it was starting to come out of it when it spat him off, burned a big hole in his left shoulder and a bit sore everywhere else so he came out of it pretty good I recon, till this day he still wears that old scare on his left shoulder and the worst thing he was doing the high speed run for the owner of the bike because he was afraid of it, but before taking him off to hospital he made me walk him to the bike where he kicked it hard.
Never forget that day, we were all young, silly and invincible to dangers.
Ashley
