You were “setting up wide for a curve”, dumb-azz, “setting up wide for a curve”.
Text messaging... Jeez. What a lame excuse.
With that said, I offer the following advice for driving/riding fast on a two lane road:
Treat the centerline of the road (or the closest edge of the double yellow line if there is one) as if it is the left-hand edge of your “track”. The right-side edge of pavement, then, is the your right-hand edge of your “track”.
This allows you to practice keeping fast but tidy lines through tight curves WITHOUT risking a head-on collision. Then, if you ever are lucky enough to actually drive/ride on a real track, you simply widen the track in your mind to its full width, and you are prepared to go VERY fast.
This has worked for me, at speeds some here might find quite alarming, for over 25 years (RE: Speed, I’ll say only this - 80 mph is NOT fast).
Of course, if this guy would actually send/receive text messages while driving he is probably a poor candidate to drive/ride anything at any speed.
If one is going to go fast on public roads, one MUST be prepared to have 100% of one’s concentration on the task at hand, while utilizing only +/-75% of one’s skills/abilities - saving the remaining 25% for reacting to the unexpected. Of course, one must also be ready for some exensive speeding tickets if one gets caught.