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I owned one of these. Bought it new in Feb. 1973. It was the fastest thing on two wheels, back then. And I rode it, like it was made to be rode. Unfortunately, this bike was prone to high-speed wobbles, hence the nickname.
I experienced the wobble/wheel hop, going into a hard left corner, at 70 mph. I slowed to 45, before the rear wheel hopped onto the curb, my bike laid down, and aimed the rear wheel at a telephone pole. It sheared the shocks off their mounts, bent the rim up to hub (same gauge spoke, used on Harley's back then), and tossed me and my helmet-less head down the road. Lucky, I rode a lot of dirt bikes and knew how to fall. I somersaulted down the pavement, with my hands covering my head. Still have the scars.
And yes, she was rebuilt and ridden for a few more years after that.
I suspect it was a loose heavy duty chain (also Harley sized and weight). I had to regularly adjust the tension, because this bike had power. I crashed on a Sunday morning, at about 8am, on my way home, from duty on the ship, and would have done my routine maintenance that day.

It took 11 months, but I finally got this done. 250+ hours total time.
I lost the files (HDD failure/no backup) and had to retrieve unfinished .png's that I posted here and a couple other places, to retrieve some of the old files. I had to vectorize and paste the pieces together. Then finish, re-do, tweak a lot of areas.

Description
I owned one of these. Bought it new in Feb. 1973. It was the fastest thing on two wheels, back then. And I rode it, like it was made to be rode. Unfortunately, this bike was prone to high-speed wobbles, hence the nickname.
I experienced the wobble/wheel hop, going into a hard left corner, at 70 mph. I slowed to 45, before the rear wheel hopped onto the curb, my bike laid down, and aimed the rear wheel at a telephone pole. It sheared the shocks off their mounts, bent the rim up to hub (same gauge spoke, used on Harley's back then), and tossed me and my helmet-less head down the road. Lucky, I rode a lot of dirt bikes and knew how to fall. I somersaulted down the pavement, with my hands covering my head. Still have the scars.
And yes, she was rebuilt and ridden for a few more years after that.
I suspect it was a loose heavy duty chain (also Harley sized and weight). I had to regularly adjust the tension, because this bike had power. I crashed on a Sunday morning, at about 8am, on my way home, from duty on the ship, and would have done my routine maintenance that day.

It took 11 months, but I finally got this done. 250+ hours total time.
I lost the files (HDD failure/no backup) and had to retrieve unfinished .png's that I posted here and a couple other places, to retrieve some of the old files. I had to vectorize and paste the pieces together. Then finish, re-do, tweak a lot of areas.