tank slapper update

[Bmsdcr@xxxxxxx]

Howdy all. If you guys remember back in June on my way to Mid-Ohio for AMA 
vintage days, my recently rebuilt Works Performance front shock blew all its oil 
out in under a mile. With the front end pogoing I hit a lengthwise crack in 
the road and it thru the frontend into a nasty tankslapper. I was able to 
recover before crashing. This cut the trip short and made me leary of riding the 
bike ever again. My finances are stable but do not allow me to buy a new bike, I 
was scared enough to never ride my RS again. After a couple of weeks I 
swapped back to the OEM shock and took the bike for a spin. Outside the shock being 
wore out and saggy, the bike rode well. I was in a nervous sweat that took a 
few miles me to calm down and enjoy the ride. I took a couple more weeks for me 
to get around to shipping the shock back to works with a letter of my 
displeasure. Well they fixed the shock and shipped it back for free after a chat with 
my wife(she can be convincing).
All said and done it is nice to have the bike back to its former glory! Just 
in time for the season to end up here in Michigan. My hat is off to WP for 
keeping behind their product.
I have about 70,000 miles on these shocks and just rolled over 91,000 miles 
on the bike overall. 

Steve Szelestey
Shelby Twp, MI
94 R1100RSL
63 R27

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