I bet that brought his next **** a bit closer to the drop zone .
Yeah - quite an eye popping moment - just shows how good modern brakes and tyres are if the rider knows how to use them.
I like how he just cracks on with it 
forgive my squirrely ignorance but wouldn’t it have been better to let off the brakes and aim for the gap between the cars?
I think he’d rolled off due to the car in front beforehand. Nice to see where the back wheel touches down.
Not at that speed - by the time he had changed direction he would be hitting one or the other of the cars with zero time to adjust his trajectory for the gap - either that or the bike would have gone severly out of shape hauling it over.
His only option was to haul the bike up - which he did very successfully - but only just. He was a cigarette paper’s width away from going smack into the back of that black car.
BLIND LUCK!!!
That said can anyone explain how the DVLA justifies this endless obsession with stopping distances… its such a flawed concept for two reasons:L
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If the vehicle in front is moving as well, the concept of “stopping distance” is incredibly variable at best… so a ruddy multiple choice asking you about it is about as informative or qualitative in terms of your driving skill as judging your knob size from the amount of piss after one pint of lager…
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Upgrade your equipment and the distance changes but is that factored into the DVLA’s “comprehensive” testing process… doubt it…
I don’t pay any attention to the braking calculations - they go right over my head - I’ll leave it to the accident investigators to work out the maths . . .