Pushed it a bit too hard

That's a good learning curve... I have a few that stick out in my mind and make me cringe everytime i think what might have been. Glad you made it.

 
From my experience of working crashes for 45+ years, over 9 out of 10 single motor corner crashes are caused by the rider NOT utilizing the available lean angle of the motor.
Basically we usually enter a corner at speed our skill level can't cope with as opposed to one beyond the capability of the motor.
Most of us have done it, including myself - more than once!
If you are going to crash in a corner, it should be from dragging the inside resulting in a low side slide.
 
That's how I wrecked my Rocket a few years back.
 
It was definetly my skill (or lack thereof) that caused the situation, not the bike. Didn't mean to blame my trusty steed! I should have started slowing down way earlier. Whether or not i would have made that corner at that speed is debatable, my gut instinct told me no, and i didn't want to lay it down, so i did what i did. Had their been a car coming the other way i would have committed to the turn.
I'll put that experience into my slide projector!
 
Glad you were able to stop in time, 80% or more of accidents involving no one else but yourself and your bike are in curves/corners and usually caused by the same basic mistake ---entering to fast--- you have never said a true'er word when you said the rocket is not a ducati it does not handle as good as one, plus anyone can go fast in a straight line it is the slowing down and the judgement that hurts a lot of riders.
Cusso Ken you are talking about target fixation if you keep looking at that big oak tree you will hit that big oak tree.
 
I once read an article written by a motorcycle crash investigator with close to fifty years experience state that in his opinion he had never seen a single bike fatality on a curve where the rider couldn't have made the curve if he had really committed and reacted properly
 
Always look where you want to go; not at what you're afraid of, because you're always going to go where you're looking.

Glad you were able to overcome Murphy that day!

A while back, someone posted on here that "she's a fast buffalo; but she's still a buffalo."

I took heed of that, but, after coming from riding a Bonneville; I must say that my R3R handles quite a bit better than I expected.

Anyway; I'm relieved to hear that you were able to get things sorted out in the nick of time!
 
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He must have missed a few then. I know of at least two within 30 miles of me in the last ten years. One hit a telegraph post at an estimated speed of around 160 mph and the other was a cop taking a friends bike for a ride and lost it on a bend in a 30 mph zone doing close to 100. I know both of the spots - one of which I drove past every week - and unless the rider was a world class racing rider there was no way they could have made the bends at those speeds.

Always remember, if you can't stop in the distance you can see then you are going too fast.
 
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