Quote Originally Posted by ghost
my 2 cents. He lost in on the straightbefore the corner, two fast, wrong angle, probable that its a decreasing radius corner, in to hot, leaned to compensate, panic, close the throttle, load the front,wash the front out, front unloads sidways, bike completes frame / earth interface and he's along for the nature tour.
True that, Ghost. Did we resolve whether this was in NZ or USA?
Everyone has some good theories on this which I agree with, but I also think it all went wrong before the corner.
I believe the rider turned in too early or too slowly. An early turn-in line through a corner will have you cranked over on the limits for a long time throughout the corner, and will send you wide at the exit - assuming you make it. I believe that if he'd turned in later, but steered quicker then he would have spent less time at maximum lean, but then the photos wouldn't have been so pretty, eh?

The Book 'Total Control' by Lee Parks has a lot of great info on this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846