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Originally Posted by Garp
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Also a sick-ass save. In riding circles, that's what's known as a "tank slapper". The front wheel goes lock-to-lock so fast you can't control it and your only hope is that you can hang onto the bars and that the inherent stability of the bike settles it down and dampens the oscillations, which appears to be exactly what happened here.
Lucky he didn't hit the sand trap. He missed it by inches. If he had, he'd have gotten flipped ass-over-teakettle most likely.
Watched it a few times and couldn't see for sure what caused the initial oscillation. Usually tank slappers are caused by hitting something on the road or shifting weight/direction REALLY fast (extremely bad riding practice). Looks like that might be what happened here - looks like the rider came off the turn and stood the bike up way too fast, so the momentum just kept going past the vertical point, then whipped back and forth (tank-slap). Bang-bang. Once it stabilized, the only thing for the rider to do was get back on the bike. Not that hard to do once the bike is stable, but still freaky looking.