Thanks for posting this up. Takes a lot of balls to face up to your mistakes, takes even more to post it on BARF and receive all the e-hate.
If there was rep you would get some from me.
There is a certain luxury of knowing a car WASN'T there and instead of pushing the situation and low siding, of letting it go. All I can do is speculate as to what I would have done if a car was there. Die comes to mind or straight lining the corner into the hill another! :laughing
Hell's Bells man!! Be very thankful there wasn't another motorcyclist or two coming the other direction around that same portion of road then. I've been on that same road dozens of times (and a couple of hundred thousand miles of other great motorcycling roads just like this one) and this is exactly the kind of situation I worry about a lot as I am riding my motorcycle through some of those twisty roads, some rider on "my" side of the road!!!! There simply isn't a margin for this kind of error and/or "brain farts" in motorcycling --- ever without bad things often happening!
Glad you were not hurt, but ever happier some innocent motorcycle riders were not coming the other direction just then too. Slow down, focus, and no more xxxxxxx stunts like this one. Too many motorcyclists (and others) get killed and/or seriously hurt in this kind of situation and improper cornering year after year after year.
DaleC
Too bad we don't shit coal, cause you'd be crapping diamonds.
Now would cutting back across the lane be the wisest choice on the blind curve, or continuing ahead along the shoulder until you could check for oncoming traffic? It just seems like getting back across into your lane could of got you hit head on or from a trailing vehicle that was in your originating lane. That's three bullets you dodged.
I'm glad your OK.