How *not* to prevent a crash

[Slide Panda]

Reportedly rider was uninjured. Guessing the grace of god(s), aliens, tribbles (hmm those are aliens) saved his hide.

[rsoffar]

so did this happen because he put his hand down or was he already going down anyways? I dont see anything really looking like he was going down till he pulled off his inside hand and the bike tried to stand up...

[stopintime]

Oooh - I think he deserved a save after that 

[Triple J]

so did this happen because he put his hand down or was he already going down anyways? I dont see anything really looking like he was going down till he pulled off his inside hand and the bike tried to stand up...

Looked to me like it happened because he put his hand down, which created unbalanced pressure on the bars, making his problem worse. There's no reason to crash otherwise, as his little wobble wasn't a big deal.

You can remove your outside hand from the bars in full lean if you're planning on it...but unexpectedly removing the inside hand is asking for trouble.

[cokey]

His peg/foot dragged/rubbed the floor.. he jerked a bit n put his down anticipating a slide it seems..

[Ducatamount]

He lost his front end and then "instinctively" put his hand down.

[Triple J]

I didn't mean his hand started the whole thing. He had a wobble before...putting his hand down just sealed the deal.

[cokey]

Wonder how that felt in the morning. 

[rsoffar]

Looked like his shoe got caught up pretty good between the rearset and road, surprised he went without injury

[Slide Panda]

Looked like his shoe got caught up pretty good between the rearset and road, surprised he went without injury

There is injured and there's hurt. He's lucky he wasn't injured - but I'm sure he was hurt the next day.

My read - he touched down the peg or other hard part and panicked. His panic reaction was, for whatever reason, to remove his hand from the bar. As a result he wasn't able to do a couple things that would have prevented the crash
1) More throttle - controlled addition of throttle would lift the bike suspension and tend to right right the bike
2) Use bars to right the bike - He had plenty of road on his side of the the dbl yellow and was nearing the exit of the turn.

He could have saved it. bike never lost traction - you can see in the slow mo version that the bike quite happily rights itself and might well have made it he'd actually fallen off.