Tell me I'm wrong guys if my thinking is off. Or maybe ERCI is spot on, I just should have come up like they teach in the class and grabbed the break hard. I may have stopped before the edge and stopped from laying the bike down but I dunno if I still would have went over and still layed the bike down. LOL over analyzing.
Hey, we NEVER teach to *grab* the brake hard! :BLAA:
No matter how fast you have to stop, brake has to be applied progressively. I always tell my students "it's like squeezing juice from lemon".
I don't think it's possible to say what exactly would be the best approach to negotiate that particular curve + hazard without seeing it in person, but in general it comes down to this:
If the bike is straight up, you can apply 100% braking.
If you're leaned over as far as you can go, you're using a LOT of traction.. say 80%.. that means you can apply less than ~20% brake without losing traction.
Question is, how many of us are good enough to accurately gauge what % of traction we're using up for the lean and how hard can we apply the brakes to not go over traction limit?
This is exactly why exercise 14 in BRC (braking in a curve) teaches students to completely separate the 2 actions: Lean into turn, straighten, then brake.
Can't always do this though without going off the road or crossing into oncoming traffic and this is where "straighten, brake, re-point" technique would come into play.