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THE FAIL: another first for me. Interestingly I know exactly what happened. When I passed the oncoming traffic I saw an empty road ahead of me. Therefore I allowed myself to brake a little later. After the first downshift my brain somehow thought I hit neutral instead of first gear. That's why I immediately started an emergency brake maneuver instead of holding my line. All of this took place in a quarter of a second probably. It is all done subconsciously. This false feeling of having hit neutral probably lasted for a tenth of a second and still it was enough for me to immediately react. Because on the bike there is no time to hesitate. I'm glad I could keep it on my side. But even if I would've gotten carried into the opposite lane I wouldn't mind too much. Some of you might be saying now: "but you would've been dead if a car was coming your way!!!" which is right probably. The crux is that with oncoming traffic I would never hit a corner this hard. Riding quick-ish on public roads asks for a lot of caution and thinking for all others. You have to evaluate every single corner while you're riding. If it's clearly free of other traffic participants you can enter that tiny bit faster. If it's not you enter with a bit more caution than usual. Just stay relaxed and calm all the time otherwise you'll probably end up in the woods or fields rather quickly.
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HAVING FUN: I enjoy wringing out bikes. That's why liter bikes don't make too much sense for someone like me on public roads. I also enjoy braking hard. As soon as the bikes' engine is all warmed up I just like to grab the thing by the neck and give it a good spanking. But that's not how you ride quickly. I'm much quicker when focusing on riding as smoothly as possible. Although on a road like this you definitely have to use first gear all the time on such a small 4cyl bike. Because below ~8-9K RPMs there's basically NOTHING happening power-wise.
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And yes, that very last clip was me inspecting the "damage" after returning from the OX ride. I thought I had scratched the exhaust itself. While actually most of the marks where in front of the exhaust, on this weird cover plate. Never seen these things "scraped" before.
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bike: 2013 Honda CBR600F ABS
tires: Bridgestone BT012
exhaust: stock (obviously)
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audio: ZOOM H1 (see the tutorial video: • HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR MO... )
edit: Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 & After Effects CS6
Color Correction: Filmconvert
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DISCLAIMER: I totally manipulated the bike's ECU so the speedometer would show completely random numbers instead of my actual velocity. In reality I never exceeded 62 kph.