Remaction:
It is the Tail of the Dragon. Says so in the 'long' link that shows the video. One of the camera dudes who sets up to take pictures on the tough corners supposedly distracted the rider who then went wide. Bad riding... bad day. Idiot should have been watching the road, not mugging for a camera. I rode that stretch in April 1992... on a trip from the Texas Gulf to Fayetteville, NC. Shiny new Harley. I think it was in April. But it was long before that stretch of road turned into the circus that it is today. There is, apparently, now a tree on one end of it that has bike parts from all the crashes hanging from its branches. A friend showed me a photo of it a couple of years ago. I remember it as a challenging bit of road that I took really slow (I was tired and it was late afternoon) and even with no traffic on it at all, it was a road not to be trifled with. Now it's an adrenaline highway and I hear that the ambulances run all weekend, every weekend picking up the organ donors.
I was on a worse (actually better since windy roads are always 'better' for motorcyclists) road about 3 years ago out in California. CA 178 past Lake Isabella and then down 155 to Delano. One of the passes through the Sierra Nevada. I was there in late-October on a week day going between Death Valley and on up to Visalia. The road was utterly abandoned/empty in late morning. But judging by the skid marks all over the road, there is plenty of sport bike carnage there on weekends. Another road that I highly recommend for riders... who have respect for the laws of physics. There was a great little country store at the bottom of the twisty section... I was glad it was there as I needed the break!
Cheers,
Sirhr