Rough weekend 😒

Glad you’re okay and thanks for uploading the video. Crash happened at approx 6:30.

Glad you're ok!

Gotta give you credit for sticking with the turn as best as you could. You could tell that you were fighting that reaction to stand it up, which is what a lot of riders do and which would've likely led to a much worse accident for you.

So props! You came damn close to saving it.

How's your trailbraking? Maybe something more you can work on?

I’ve been watching this video a bunch of times trying to learn from it. I think throttle control may be the issue.

You can slow down the video to see your speed climb while you’re turning the bike. I believe that put you into a wide trajectory.

At the level 1 course at superbike school, they had us decouple steering inputs from throttle inputs. Roll off throttle, brake if needed, turn, spot apex, roll on throttle continuously to stabilize bike. If you mess up your line, roll off or maintain throttle, make steering input, then roll on throttle to stabilize.

This is their method of negotiating corners they taught for level 1.

In many instances like this just using the simple look/lean/believe technique would have seen him through. We tend to give up on staying off the brakes and just leaning it over and let it roll through the curve.  A modern sport bike can corner far more aggressively than we tthink.  But too easy to analyze after the fact.

I was slowly rolling on throttle because I entered the turn slow, not knowing I should have been going half the speed to catch the second apex. I would love to go to superbike school though, it is just so damn expensive and not readily available. 

Track days might be difficult to get at, but so very worth it. Try it, I promise it'll be worth the effort/cost!

First of all, glad you're okay. Second of all, never think about proper training as expensive; fixing your bike will be more expensive than if you had taken a course at Superbike School (where everything is provided). And now imagine if you had hit a car head-on, and tell me if getting proper training is expensive. Didn't think so. He he. Just trying to change your thinking from expense, to investment .

Anyway, as somebody already said, you could have easily made that curve without even crossing the yellow line, at the speed you were going, by just trailbraking initially. Once on maintenance throttle, you could have made the downshift, if you wanted to exit quicker. Your biggest mistake was the last downshift you made (which you botched too, as mentioned). NEVER execute a downshift in the middle of a curve when you're too hot (even with a QS); you don't want to upset the chassis in any way when you need maximum grip to make the corner. MUCH better to make the corner and botch the exit, than don't make the corner, right? Live and learn. Your second mistake was to lead in an unfamiliar road and at an aggressive pace, and without the skills to turn the bike at maximum lean, if needed, and to read the curves properly.

Hey, if Superbike School (I'd recommend Nick Ienatsch instead, by the way) is out of the question soon, I highly recommend you buy Nick Ienatsch's book Sport Riding Techniques. It's excellent, and it'll teach you all the skills you need to know; you'll improve much quicker that way. But if you want to ride aggressively, I'd definitely do a track school when you have a chance, because it's a lot harder to improve on the streets without taking too many chances once you get to certain level. Oh, another excellent learning tool would be having communicators (Cardo, Sena) with a buddy who rides better, and can teach you on the fly. I did that with a friend, explaining everything I was doing while he followed me at the dragon and other awesome roads, and he improved a lot. I was also alerting my cousin of decreasing radius corners, debris, etc. First time I use that thing (Cardo Freecom4) as a communicator, and it was awesome.

Finally, also kudos for having the balls to post your experience. I can tell you I made a similar mistake decades ago, also when riding in an unfamiliar road for the first time, not too aggressively, but more than I should, when I caught heavy sand on a blind corner, and down I went too. Back then there was no internet, I didn't know anybody who rode, there were no books, no riding schools that I knew of, so I had to learn on the fly, like you did. Just don't make the same mistake twice, and this will be a distant memory soon . Good luck brother.

Definitely learned a lot from this and it's already made me a better rider, just went back to the crash site this weekend so I could make the curve my b****. Was extremely nervous but it was something I had to overcome. I've easily watched and analyzed it over 1000 times, that's one of the reasons I uploaded it. And for the superbike school, even though it is pricey I would still love to do it. Just when I decide to do it I'm going to do the full 2 day camp. Unfortunately I can't afford a $3k weekend trip right now. 

Ha ha. That's the spirit, brother. For now just get that book; it'll help you A LOT, even if you take a track school later, because you'll be riding better, and improve more. And yes, if you do a track school, definitely do a 2-day camp. I've done two, 2-day Superbike School camps, and never liked that much how it was taught, to be honest. So I also highly recommend doing the Yamaha school instead; it's a hair more expensive if you need to rent everything (which is included in the price at SS), but you'd learn what takes 2 camps at SS, so much cheaper at the end. And even cheaper, if you live close enough to a track where you could bring your own bike (not available at SS on 2-day camps).

Hey, so what was the wallet damage to get your baby back to pre-crash form? Hopefully not too bad. Oh, and don't forget to replace your helmet if it hit the ground, which it probably did. Don't skimp on a helmet either . Take care.