"Corners are easier at half the speed you can take them, than twice the speed you can't."

It's a terrible crash. BUT the video and the audio is excellent.... Relatively speaking.

I put it down to deep sand across the road and possibly steering geometry being a bit fucked up and not cornering properly. Ask me how I know.

Ok, how do you know?

@usr6874038614: Ok ignornace, comes from a lack of experience. In Australia - we drive on the LEFT side of the road..... OK Well when I was younger, and much more ignorant than I am today, I would go flying along this road and others like it, that were blind corners.... https://maps.app.goo.gl/rbbRHuS4jGpTJMe28 AND half way around the 50 Kmh max speed corner on the motorbike, I figured that with halfway decent tyres I could go around it at 80Kmh - knee out, road racing style... but because it's a blind corner, and my visual range, is not as long as my stopping distance, on the odd occassion, going around these types of corners, without having done a SLOW ride up and down the road first, I would discover things like BIG tree branches that had fallen across the road, and my stopping distance was much greater than my reaction time, and fortunately I was able to swing around them, into the lane of the oncoming traffic, and there was no traffic and I did't go off the edge of the mountain either... Here is an example https://maps.app.goo.gl/wnJdKxWSehgDsorY7 - Here is another one.... When it's WET and it's dark - these trees are almost impossible to see until you hit them, so the old "go slow" has a great deal going for it, much more so in the wet. https://maps.app.goo.gl/6dazKonyNwKcGnpv9 Have a spin around and zoom in and out and a few hops up and down the highway. There were other hazards like wet leaves, sand, mud etc., encountered in corners...... There are also wombats, kangaroos, sheep, cattle, deer etc., wandering around the edges, on roads and crossing them as well. SO it pays to go slowly around the place, until you know better.... AND you only ever go REAL fast, if you have been bitten by a snake and it's an hours trip to the hospital and you have half an hour to live... AND One I was coming through an intersection and a guy turned right in front of me, and the crash bent the forks and damaged the steering head bearings..... I was able to get it fixed but the bearings developed a fault, that in left hand corners, they would slightly "click" and the forks and front wheel would shift ever so slightly to the right, making the bike steer across into the right hand lane, and "you cannot pull out of it" ---- or sailing into the oncoming traffic, just like this guy did...... AND after a couple of near misses, of doing exactly what this guy did, I said, I have better change the head stem bearings..... OR I am going to die.... So this guy is on a road that has heaps of sand on it - think extremely small ball bearings - but he doesn't seem to be going fast enough to slide out on them, but perhaps his steering geometry - be it forks, head stem bearings, twisted frame etc... could have caused him to go into an unstoppable swerve to his left..... and there was also a funny scraping noise before the impact - like as if his center stand was scraping or something - because he wasn't going fast enough to lean over and scrap the foot pegs.... He seemed to understand how to ride on sandy and dust covered road surfaces.... So there was the funny scraping noise..... and the bike steering out of his lane and into the path of the oncoming traffic..... OR he was a tourist from another country, riding on the wrong side of the road...... AND I am not saying it was good..... the crash was really fucked.... But considering everything - the audio added a lot of significance and finality to the visuals..... That in it's self was an excellent recording of the event..

@usr6874038614: Twas on this corner, riding in the left lane and the off camber corner, leaning to the right.... the steering locked and the bike slew across the road, missing an oncoming car and I was able to pull up in the gentle embrace of the concrete gutter. https://maps.app.goo.gl/PWjCX5FATSFfGMbi7 --- https://maps.app.goo.gl/pDjfVpK8xWtky2gf6 Yeah a couple of those and I thought.... Yeah I gotta fix the steering head problems..... I think the one after that or before that was along a road like this, with much wider verge and flatter way across the green grass to the front yard and it was a plain slightly off camber sweeping left corner... I was going at a fair rate of knots, probably 120 or so... Not sure... and the bike veered across from the left lane, across the right lane and over the gravel and the front wheel was literally 4" to 6" or 10 to 15cm... from going off the grass and into the ditch - which is bad, but every house and yard had a drive way, with a gravel bridge over a drainage pipe like these... https://maps.app.goo.gl/mvs1qUCT9ZGqtvpPA But this was like 40 + years ago and all the trees, roads, houses, buildings, - everything has really changed to the point that I cannot identify a lot of things any more... There is now concrete guttering, foot paths, bus shelters etc.... All I do know is that I remember being "ice cold" cool headed - but understanding that if the front of my bike went into the ditch, and I hit that gravel drive way - I would have been fucked....... I might have survived it with a ruined bike and a few knocks and bruises, or I might have died..... very easy at that speed - not so much the falling off and sliding - it's all the hard shit and rough landings that can occurr along the way.

@usr6874038614: That's how I know.

A man of expertise...

@usr6874038614: I am very surprised that I am even alive, must less up and walking..... You want to know why I love driving the back roads in the middle of nowhere, at say 60 or 70 Kmh - no other vehicles on the road.... and why I enjoy going so slow in a 100 Kmh zone.... with no cars or trucks up my arse.... That's why. Being a slow old Sunday Driver 7 days a week is very relaxing...

True words. Also : wisdom usually comes with age.

@usr6874038614: I am making an effort to get to the end of my life, with no more crashes, injuries, hospitalisations, wrecked vehicles etc....