Superbike Honda ST1300 Pan European 2008 Commercial

The Honda ST1300 is a Touring motorcycle manufactured by Honda and introduced to Europe in 2002 — where it was named the Pan-European. The following year, it was released in North America as the ST1300 in the sport touring category. Superseding the ST1100, the bike features a standard riding posture, a liquid-cooled V4 engine and a fully-faired body with standard hard panniers (saddlebags). At high speeds the ST1300 may exhibit a weave instability mode. Citing this instability, a number of UK police forces have withdrawn the ST1300P from service. On 27 April 2007, Coroner Dr James Adeley, speaking at an inquest into the death of experienced police motorcyclist PC David Shreeve, announced that he would write to all Chief Constables in England warning of the "serious threat" to riders&lives posed by the ST1300P (the emergency services version of the ST1300 Pan-European), and the "catastrophic result" of the high speed weave.PC Shreeve was thrown from his bike and killed on 9 November 2005. Subsequent safety checks resulted in one examiner sustaining several broken bones in a similar incident. In their October 2007 Issue, Ben Wilkins in the British magazine RiDE reported that a team was able to demonstrate that a Honda ST1300 will produce at 110 miles per hour (180 km/h) under certain loading conditions a rear wheel maximum yaw of 11 degrees per second, noticed by the rider as "a consistent and alarming sideways movement", naming the behavior "Pan weave". The intent of the...