Today we're celebrating the 89th birthday of Volkswagen.

On this day in 1937, Adolf Hitler vision to enable Nazi families to own their first car was brought to life and Volkswagen was born!

I'm sure the party in Volkswagen's headquarters won't be as big and passionate as the previous 88th milestone, but congratulations nonetheless:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/s/1DpwwvYVrI

Finally got the dashcam footage of my accident. The camera is mounted slightly off to the right.

I still can’t tell which part of the car hit me. As for prevention: the car came into view late because of the height difference and the curve, so I’m thinking I should have been hugging the right shoulder more, and possibly going a bit slower?

— Edit:

Thanks for all the responses and advice. After reading all of them, my take:

I made 2 primary mistakes.

1- I wasn’t feeling it that day. That should’ve been the sign to take the car instead. It led to me riding without my usual concentration. I was riding on semi auto, wasn’t paying attention to signs etc, which I normally don’t do. The road being flat straight boring road for 2h was a contributing factor also. I was 5 minutes away from my break. I should’ve taken a break way earlier.

2 - I was riding too fast. My speed was 120-130, which is fine while it was straight for the last hour. I slowed down to 110, which was still too much. I should have been going 70-80 at the turn since it was blind curve.

Those are obvious with hindsight. When I can ride again, I’ll take some advanced riding courses specifically targeted towards riding outside of city.

For all the track advice I get, you all are lucky to have access to one. There 3-4 tracks total in Türkiye, none near Ankara, where I live. Closest one is the Istanbul Park which is a big ass pro track 450km away 😀

— Edit 2:

Upon further reading & thinking, I’m remembering thinking I went in to the turn too fast. Normally I take these type of curves at 70-80 kmh which I can confidently control my position. I thought I was going too fast, trying to adjust, then at that exact moment came across the car that’s slightly in my lane. I believe my instinct to tighten the turn helped me from crashing head on, but not enough to avoid it altogether.

— Final edit:

To give some context, I’m 39 years old, started riding at 35, and riding a bike all day every day for 3 years, over 40000km of riding, half of those on highways and this type of roads.

Normally I ride with “head on a swivel” mentality. I constantly check the road, other cars, mirrors, dash, speed, signs, my line etc. Always calculating safest place I could be at that moment. Looking for potential risks. Served me well so far.

I was doing none of that at that time. I should’ve recognized this and stopped. I didn’t. Almost died.

All the mistakes, the speed, the position all downstream from this.

Yeah the other car is at fault, but it’s also clear that I could & should have prevented that by proper defensive riding.

I don’t consider myself an experienced rider, and I ride accordingly. I ride fast when it’s safe, slow down at curves, and never go into pissing contests with other riders & drivers.

In fact, this is the first time I went into a curve at that speed on this type of road.

It took me reading all the comments here to realize all this. My memory was foggy from that time, and ive been rewatching the video and rereading all the replies last 24 hours. Thanks again.

I’ve already arranged some private lessons some months out with an expert instructor, followed by group lessons. I clearly need that to avoid putting myself in that situation again.

No TLDR this time, couldn’t write one

First picture after install

Second picture after couple of months

Notice how the red no longer aligns b/w rim and tire

Tires still have the manufacturer stickers on the treads since only the inner shoulders touch the ground, and probably because he has to replace them every few thousand miles.

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