scratch went down!

[scratch]

One thing that has been really bothering me is that when I had a tankslapper some 11+ years ago on my little 250, it bucked both my hands off the bars and both my feet off the pegs, so I was literally "along for the ride" and then the bike righted itself and I gathered myself up and carried on my way and never stopped.

So why couldn't that have happened this time, with the exception of me pinching the tank with my knees, keeping my feet on the pegs, and the very bumpy road that I was on? The bike threw me down...
I think I fought with the bike...I must have used my right hand, which was still on the throttle to steady the bike and pinched my knees, which restrained the bike from regaining it's composure. But the bumps...

Now someone said that when you hit a bump that causes the front to dive (from the rear hitting the bump and being launched up in the air), it reduces your trail and that is what causes the speedwobble (which can become a tankslapper); and if there are many, repetitive bumps (whoop-dee-doos), you crash.