[throttlemeister]

I don't know Mort, and I don't know Palomar. What I do know, is that a good and a safe rider is able to read the road and the traffic and will be able to adjust for both. Given the painted situation, a good and experienced rider would have a) slowed down going into a blind corner and b) anticipated the other rider turning left and slowed down more as 99 out of a 100 times you can see what other traffic is going to do by correctly reading the signs. (situational awareness, speed of other traffic, if it is slowing down or accelerating, position on the road, direction driver is looking at, etc). The rider turning left may have been technically at fault, but there is a huge difference between a motorcycle leaning in right hand turn, and one that is slowing down and lining up to turn left 'suddenly'. This should have been noticed by both riders going down. But even if you miss that, you should expect people to pull left into a lookout and be ready to brake, stop or avoid.

The situation described is not uncommon and if you cook it up like this, you weren't paying attention and/or going too fast for the situation.