I know what you and Larry are sayin' about the whole countersteering thing here, Ian. However, I doubt the guy's ability and/or his inability to countersteer was the guy's primary failure here at that most critical time.
Nope, ya see, if you look at picture number-10 in this sequence, what I think the guy did was to freak out when he started scraping the T-Bird's frame and other hard parts while he was really leaned over. I think he became afraid he was going to low-side his bike, which from that particular picture number 10 looked at that point to be a very likely possibility, especially if he tried to countersteer any further at that point in time.
And so, I'll bet his thinking was to right the bike, which of course straightened his line directly across the road's centerline and into that poor Corvette.
(...nope, once again, I'll bet the guy DOES know how to countersteer a motorcycle, but he was freaked out about low-siding his bike when he heard and felt that scraping...and remember, one can ONLY countersteer ANY motorcycle to a certain point depending upon its ground-clearance, and then all bets are off)
Last edited by Dwight; 10/20/2012 9:11 PM.
