is the third time the charm?

[5speed]

was out for a nice ride sat with my wife and another friend. I was on my 82 wing as it has bags..
we were following a costal road and coming down a pretty steep hill with a sharp banked right hand corner at the bottom. Not an issue except we were turning to the left onto another road that intersected the road we were on right in the apex of the corner.
I had the old girl slowed down and was committed to making the turn which went uphill to the edge of the road than downhill onto the road I was heading for. Quite a steep angle of approach.
Again..not a big deal except for the gravel on the road.
I'm still not sure exactly what happened and it happened fast. One minute I was looking where I wanted to go and the next think I know I'm picking myself up off the road.
From looking at the marks on the road near as I can figure out, when I leaned in to the corner the rear tire kicked out on the gravel because the left hand engine guard was dragging almost from the center of the road thru the turn.
I have a bruise on the left cheek of my butt..it was the first point of contact with the road.
My wife didn't see me go down but she saw me getting up. She stopped got off her bike and damn near had my 1100 back on it's wheels when some other bikers stopped and helped.
This is the third time my bike and I have parted ways on a ride...all 3 times I rode it home and the most serious damage to the bike to date is the engine crash bars.
The first 2 times was due to a previous owner putting a front tire on the back and the air shocks leaking.I hit a bad bump in the corner and the bike headed for the woods both times. All 3 were when I was entering a left hand turn..
Needless to say I was a whole lot gun shy of left hand turns for the rest of the day. lol
this pic I took at our last stop before I got bucked off..that view made the hurt pride and road rash on the bike worth it..

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5speed,

I have seen a bike crash at low speed because the crash-bar on the low side hit the ground hard, in a turn.  The rear wheel lifted, due to the slow forward speed with the crash-bar digging into the roadway.  The rear spun out; there was no saving it, with the rear wheel off the ground.  If your incident site shows that the crash-bar was digging hard into the roadway at the start of the accident, this may explain your experience.
Looking back, the rider might have avoided the crash I saw by using an extreme weight-shift to the low side, keeping the bike more upright in the turn.  With the butt solidly planted on the seat, as I saw, it was the crash-bar that made the wreck happen.

[5speed]

5speed,

I have seen a bike crash at low speed because the crash-bar on the low side hit the ground hard, in a turn.  The rear wheel lifted, due to the slow forward speed with the crash-bar digging into the roadway.  The rear spun out; there was no saving it, with the rear wheel off the ground.  If your incident site shows that the crash-bar was digging hard into the roadway at the start of the accident, this may explain your experience.
Looking back, the rider might have avoided the crash I saw by using an extreme weight-shift to the low side, keeping the bike more upright in the turn.  With the butt solidly planted on the seat, as I saw, it was the crash-bar that made the wreck happen.

this makes perfect sense ..considering I was leaning to the left and going into the high part of the corner..it happened so fast I didn't have time to react. Lesson learned. Next time I will set myself up to take the turn straight on