thanks all for the replies. Most of you really added to the analysis of what happened. A few comments though, since I watched the video another couple of times and, once I understood that they were speaking Spanich from Chile, it got much easier to pick up what was happening:
- the GS guy was told from a man next to the C14 driver (laying on the floor) to go get Kawasaki out of the road. As it can be noticed when he afterwards approaches the crowd around his friend, there was a doctor/nurse (not sure) already taking care of the C14 driver. At least in Germany, in order to get your driving license you have to (among many, many other things) go through a first aid curse in which they train you, in case of an accident, to:
step 1) secure the accident area
step 2) assist those who need help
step 3) call the emergency service (police or medical assistance, if needed)
Step 2 was already done by the bystanders, so he dealt with steps 1 and 3.
- when the GS guy finally takes his helmet off you can see how freaked he was, and that can also be noticed when he picks up the C14 from the floor with ease (it happened to me once). He was full of adrenaline and not thinking clearly. What he did, though, was call emergency services before anything else from his bluetooth paired HTC phone (yes, he looked like "messing with the phone", but he was actually talking with the emergency service trying to be specific with the location of the accident). He actually reacted in a very good manner, I have to say.
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I can't see any kind of cruise/throttle lock when in the curves like that. You don't know what is coming up next and you need to respond differently to every curve.
+1 million!!!
- the "smoke" coming off the rear wheel had to be some debriss and since he was on the throttle that had to unsettle the bike. As some noted, he never hit the brakes; crampbuster in this case played a big (bad) role. Any form of throttle lock would be a gamble in such roads. I wonder how a CC would have reacted.
I think the bottom lines here are clear: no throttle lock whatsoever on curves or less than optimal road conditions; good body position; call emergency immediately.
The reason I wanted to hear what you guys think is that I saw (and then posted) this video yesterday eveninig while planning my trip to the Alps this weekend. On the beginning I wanted to do the Passo dello Stelvio (Italy) and the old San Bernardino Pass (Switzerland), and at the last moment I thought of adding the old Sankt Gotthard-Pass (Switzerland again), but then I noticed in the pictures that people post in google maps that the latter is actually paved with setts, which I'm mighty afraid off
If weather is nice (e.g. dry) I'll probably try it, though.