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Originally Posted by Red Herring
That's a bit of a strange one. You've gone down on the right side going into a left hander, which means in effect you "highsided", only they generally happen on the way out of a bend on the power. The easiest way to do what you have done is to lock the rear up going into the bend. Is it possible you were going a bit quicker than you thought and maybe squeezed a bit more than you had planned? The bike would have gone a bit sideways until you either ran out of lock, or realized what was happening and came off the brake a bit to quickly causing the rear to grip suddenly and throw you over the top. It was pretty cold last night and compacted salt can be pretty slippery at the best of times so it wouldn't have taken much. Generally if there is enough diesel down to cause a proper crash you can smell it as well. All I can say in encouragement is that there will be a reason you came off, these things don't "just happen". Go back to where it happened and talk yourself through it again, I'm sure you're work it out. Good luck.
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If it was ice, you can easily overcompensate and go the wrong side. I've done this on the ungritted turning into work - it's like trying to balance on a knife edge.