I can remember pretty much everything, I must have replayed the whole thing in my head 100 times by now!
I was exiting a right hander at just under 60kph onto a short straight, maybe 50m, into a tight left, the road was fairly steep downhill at around 14%. As I have started to straighten/sit the bike up onto the straight I have applied the brakes to slow slightly for the left, but I have locked the rear wheel as it's gone over a patch of oil/diesel on the road. By the time I've caught/corrected the slide it's been far too late to take the left hander as I haven't slowed at all on the straight so I decided the best bet was to haul the anchors on and go straight in the hope of having a soft landing rather than hitting the tarmac by turning in with way too much speed. I maybe slowed to 25-30kph before I went off the road and into the trees. I'm pretty sure the headtube failed when I hit some big potholes in the road just before I left the tarmac as I've been braking as hard as possible and most of my weight is on the front wheel. I have a really clear memory of the sound of carbon cracking, then hitting the trees. Where I went off the verge was grass where the front wheel hit, so I don't think it has gone there.
My take away has been that shit happens, if the oil patch hadn't have been there the crash wouldn't have happened. But that's life sometimes.
I've got a few pictures, will post them up when I get home, including one of the rather nice hole I have made in a trees branches
. Can't access Imgur and the like in work!
Ben has been absolutely first class in helping me sort it out. The new headtube section is already getting built in anticipation of the frames arrival next week, so hopefully she'll be back on the road soon.