Height really shouldn't be a problem as you could NOT be much shorter than me,(5'7"), and a couple of things you said made me think. 1)You said your toe sliders were dragging. To me that tells me that your feet were in the wrong position,(don't worry we've all done it), get your toes up on the pegs not the ***** of your feet. 2)You made a slight lean angle adjustment. This bike with stock shock does NOT like sudden adjustments no matter how slight. 3)You were already dragging pegs before it happened. If that was already happening then you should have asked a C/R to follow you and look at your body positioning because you probably weren't off the bike enough, don't worry about falling off, try to use your outside leg to hook the seat and outside arm leaning on the tank and it will help out. Not trying to sound like a know it all, just trying to pass on what I've learned.

As far as the rear sets are concerned, I have Harris solid peg rearsets and have never come close to scrapping them,(without actually crashing that is), so I wouldn't worry about that.

I actually have lowmount pipes but used highmount hangers for more clearence and to be able to take off the rear caliper without it being in the way. You could just buy the hangers or even make your own.

 

it looks like your far enough off the bike but your not opening up your hips enough. so your peg and foot are touching down before your knee. imo
good luck getting the bike back together. and go for a ride to make sure it's all right before you go back to the track. I can tell you from experance that getting all the way to the track and finding out something small is missing and you can't ride.

 

I don't know, it looks to me like the upper body is still pretty much centered and not to the side or low enough. I've always been told to get your head down and over and you should be looking where the mirror use to be almost like you're trying to bite your forearm. The lower body looks like he has maybe one cheek off the seat but not much more than that.

 

Your lowside was probably caused by your change in lean angle mid-turn. Your form looks good for the turn.

Sorry to hear about the crash!

 

Glad you're okay.

 

Get a rear shock with ride height adjustability. Sounds like you're inseam-challenged so that might have to be a tradeoff on your reach to the ground.

 

All of this is very good information. And I agree with a lot of the assessments. I don't get off enough. The pictures are from laps prior to the crash so I was just getting warmed up, I don't think my knee even touched down in the first session (I was trying to smoothly progress through the day, but I let the traffic get to me). We were actually running Counter-Clockwise, and I lost the rear right after the 1st apex, before diving in to the cambered second apex.

Review of the crash:
Was hanging off (not quite enough), trailing off the break/engine breaking only when I went down. Ball of foot was on peg (but a little outboard), knee was down. I had thrown it in to the turn fairly rapidly, and just prior to falling off, I remember the feeling of the lean angle going from knee down and fairly steep (because I wasn't hanging off enough, I must have been leaned over quite a bit), to peg dragging (and toe slider, thanks Oxtar Ti sliders!), and very quickly I heard more hard parts dragging than I was used to and then all the soft parts were dragging as my bike swung away from me. I was actually quite excited by the whole event. While I hated to see my bike (just finished the graphics, wind screen mods) in shambles; it was very exciting to slide off the track, lots of adrenaline involved with finding the limit I guess.

I am shorter than you, 22. I stand around 5'6.4995" ish.

I have already found and bought some Leo Vince High mounts (sorry if I was bidding against anyone here!), frame sliders (I may go down again, the track is FUN!), LH handlebar, Clutch fluid reservoir, LH plastic, and LH turn signal. So I am going to be back in action with in a couple of weeks. Which is good because I am going back to the track on October 18!

What I haven't bought yet:
Rearsets-I figured I should give modifying my body position a chance before I make the investment, but that was something I thought about from the very first time I took the VTR to the track.
Shock-I was talking with ICEBud about his Wilbers unit, since it has the ride height adjustment, and all the other goodies, but that would make my $800 repair bill up to a $1300 repair bill, and I can't swallow that quite yet. On that note though, does raising the rear help the handling of the Hawk? Would that necessitate the use of a stearing dampner?
Tank-It is hammered pretty bad, but holds fuel without any leaks. I think my range might have decreased from 100 miles to 75 miles! "My dad has some tools, we should be able to hammer it right out!" J.S. FT@RH

Again, all of the input is greatly appreciated, keep it coming.

 

No, raising the rear does not make the bike unstable. Mine is raised 10mm at the shock and lowered 10mm at the forks. Handles great. No headshakes or any wierd stuff.