Yep physics, long trailer, short tight bend - no room for motorcycle
There's a bunch of Dragon crash videos. It was also the subject of a Hell Roads episode - Hell Roads - Tail of the Dragon. Easy to find, Well worth watching.
Did he say he'd call for emt using satellite phone? Guess that is something to consider next trip.
While on the subject of Dragon crash videos I have one on my GoPro from the rally. Well, not quite the crash. Let me explain. On the Monday following the rally Cormanus and I decided we would have another look at the Dragon. As we made our way up, Cormanus was leading, I noticed a small group of "sporties" rapidly closing from behind. Not wanting to spoil anyone's fun I pulled to the right, as did Cormanus shortly thereafter. About five or so corners later, maybe even that corner shown in the semi video (I will have to have a close look), we caught them up. Not hard to do really as they had come to a complete stop. One of their number had become part of the scenery by running wide on a leftie and planting himself into the embankment. His two mates were rendering assistance, so Cormanus and I went around them and entered a small pullover around 70 meters up the hill. Cormanus went back to see what the situation was and I started to wave at bikes and cars to slow them up. Those blokes were taking up more room than was advisable on the Dragon. To cut a short story even shorter, the rider was slightly damaged, shocked but OK, the bike was damaged but sort of rideable. They regrouped and proceeded at a very sedate pace back to whence they came. Cormanus and I mounted up and enjoyed our Dragon experience.
Cheers
Ouch! So glad those beasts are no longer allowed on the Dragon.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16YnmJN0fc]Here's the Hell Road episode. Check out the stack at 6:07.