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...I suspect a lot of accidents could be avoided if the rider simply laid the bike over further rather than freaking out and braking/standing the bike up.
VERY true, Richard! But in addition to this, I suspect a lot of riders haven't a clue about the practice of "Late Apexing" into those turns in the road, and which because of this lack of knowledge will often lead these riders into running out of room in their lane while cranked over into those turns and thus causing them to freak out and stand the bike up as you mentioned, and just when they shouldn't.
Whenever I'm riding "spiritedly"(as Ron so expertly put it earlier  ) on the twisties around here, I ALWAYS practice this.
In fact, what I'll often do is try to ride at a constant speed of say 40-50mph("semi-spiritedly", so to speak) and mostly trying to avoid applying any braking on these twisty mountain roads around here which have a posted speed limit of 35mph even on the straightaways and which often have "advisory" speed limit signs posted at hairpin turns of 25mph. And so, by keeping at that constant speed of 40-50mph, and ALWAYS looking for that "late apex" in every turn, it helps further ingrain this practice into my subconscience so that I'll seldom if ever "run out of room" in my lane and/or cross over the center line EVEN when I AM riding more "spiritedly" on these roads.
(...yep, I think EVERY rider should practice a form of this as much as they can)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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