One lean over too many

[MikeyG]

Gotta love the way his/her mates run to pick the bike up before seeing if he/she is ok while making jokes about medic and man down.

[N4CR]

**** you little ******* ****. turn ******* netnanny off!!

it's not me its ****in hicher and joney that turned it on i got too many refractions or something... it does it automatically same with no caps or anyting but i can still do this

[Finn]

it's not me its ****in hicher and joney that turned it on i got too many refractions or something... it does it automatically same with no caps or anyting but i can still do this

That's ******* hilarious! Nice one Hitcher, Joni.

[vifferman]

Typical highside: the back tyre started to slide, he chopped the throttle and it hooked up again and spat him off.
Why did the tyre start to slide?
Well, he was very close to the centreline on that pass, and I suspect he didn't want to get on the paint so leaned it a little bit more. Unfortunately, that wasn't a good line as all the dust and crap on the road tends to get brushed to the side of the main wheeltracks and into the centre. On a smooth surface like that it wouldn't take much dust/grit/road spooge to reduce the grip enough for a slide to start.

But isn't it great when people are posing for videos and it turns to custard? Reality TV at its best?

[davereid]

banana skin

[vifferman]

banana skin

That's not a bad theory, but doesn't that apply only to Hardley Ablesons?

[Brett]

He should have held the throttle steady, or not wound off much at all, would have been a controlled drift out the exit of the corner...

[onearmedbandit]

Yeah 'cos that's easy to do in the heat of the moment...

[beyond]

It definitely looks like he got on the gas too early and because of his lean angle ran out of grip once on the gas. As soon as the back end slid out he immediately got off the throttle which is a normal and instinctive reaction and the tyre regripped tossing him into a dreaded highside. He was real lucky nothing was coming the other way eh?