Martin, thanks for the translation...feel free to take many pictures and please share them with us.
Closest verbatum response to my thoughts on this thread... maybe not the "nicest" or "kindest" response to someone that has gotten hurt.
The rider claims he did not accelerate after the slip, but he did not brake either because that makes the bike stand up? When a bike is already upright on the right side of the road, travels all the way across the road upright, and then crashes on the left side of road, seems to me that somewhere on that straight line with the bike upright there would be sometime to brake and regain control of the bike. The right hand turn ahead of him as he was going off the left side of the road was not a tight turn.
No off road/dirt bike experience or sliding experience and the panic afterwords had this poor guy just freeze and hang on until his fate was sealed. I'm glad he only suffered a broken wrist.
JJ
Foreign country, heavily populated rural area, road lined with steel guardrail. He should have been cruising along taking in the sights instead of trying to make a knee dragger video.
He may say no ,but I swear I heard that thing accelerate after the slide -anybody else ? Maybe faulty memory -things happen fast . Glad he's allright .That's exactly the same sound I hear every time I watch this video.
I watched it a few more times and i think ive got it .
There was no debree ... I knew he was putting some messed up imput into the steering ... Im pretty sure he was trying to literally hang off his bike . He lost his grip and almost falls into the road . This make the bike go haywire {well not haywire but it quickly corrects itself from messed up steering imput) for a spit second while he tries unsucessfully to to recover.(climb back to the bars)
Watch again and see if you agree.
I hope someday we have simulators to practice these problems without the crash .
I watched it many times too. I am certain the rear tire lost traction. There was no breaking, and I don't think the steering input or body position caused it. The only two things I can guess are either a patch of sand, or an abrupt power change caused the loss of traction during the cornering. The "plume" at the exact instant of loss of traction (and the sideways motion of the rear tire) are what I am focusing on. So if not sand, that leaves clutch, shift, or throttle. I suspect the most likely being opening the throttle. I am no expert in this stuff.
He may say no ,but I swear I heard that thing accelerate after the slide -anybody else ? Maybe faulty memory -things happen fast . Glad he's allright .
At the risk of repeating myself, I think this is a CLASSIC example of someone with no training/experience reverting to the sheer terror response (standing the bike upright and grabbing a bunch of brake and just hoping that he can get it stopped in time is the usual response, but this guy may not have even used his brakes properly for fear of............something...........??
As our military drums into the heads of new recruits on what to do in times of high stress, this fellow did not know what to do when presented with what he thought was the precursor to doom and certain death, so he reverts to the classic deer in the headlights.
Who can blame him as presently there is no easy way to learn (re-program our brain) without being forced to deal with these issues in real life. This video is a very effective advertisement for the need to enroll in some sort of professional accident avoidance school, or, learn it the hard way!
Let's all go out today and practice some emergency avoidance skills.
End of soapbox ranting..
Fretka
Foreign country? I thought he was local to that area?
Brian