Hello everyone! I'm new to this forum so greetings to all here. I attended the CSS camp at Mid-Ohio in August and consider it money well-spent.
I'm posting to try and get some help analyzing a crash I had on my most recent trackday. This was last Sunday at Firebird Raceway in Chandler, Arizona. I was on a rented SV650 on the second lap of my fourth session of the day and was coming out of the 2nd half of Turn 4 of the East track which is a double apex right-hander. I had already passed the apex when I had the crash which was a lowside that ended up with me sliding on my front into the gravel. I confess, my recollection of all the details may not be the best (please bear with me - I consider myself still very much a beginner) but I'm fairly sure I was leaned over decently far but did not feel anything drag - sliders or hard parts. I'm also quite sure I wasn't braking and 100% certain I hadn't done anything with the clutch or shifter since I had been keeping to one gear to work on my lines and RPs. I'm also sure I hadn't run wide and to the best of my recollection was actually on the line I wanted.
The thing that sticks in my mind though is that just before the crash I felt the bars go into a wobble - after two deflections side to side the next thing I recall was the bike on its side and me doing some asphalt surfing. It wasn't a full-on tank slapper - in this case the bars were wobbling in a smaller range. I'd felt this once before on my own SV but that time it didn't result in any unhappy endings. However, it concerns me that I've felt it twice, once ending in a crash and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong to cause it. Did I give it too much throttle and cause the rear tire to slip?
I'd appreciate some input from the experts here to try and get some learning out of what otherwise would be a frustrating incident. Lucky for me I came away with just some soreness and small bruises and the bike was a rental and not one of my own but I still felt really frustrated afterwards since I felt like I'd made real progress since the school yet I ended up crashing. I even thought about quitting trackdays or maybe even riding altogether since I felt like maybe I had been fooling myself that I had more skill than I really possessed however I finally convinced myself with some help from family and friends that one crash should not be the measure I look to for my skill. At this time, I've already got some replacement gear on the way and am already making plans for my next trackday in a month from now when I can get time off work again. Before then though, I'm going to be working even harder to learn more and this is one of the things I'm doing to help with that so thanks in advance to anyone replying with some input.
Oh, and since this is my first post here I'd like to give a shout out to Josh and Hieu who were both really helpful at my CSS camp!