Seriously? You're testing your cornering skills entering the highway?? On a brand new bike to you?? "Why are there so many deaths and injuries on motorcycles this year??" Sigh..
I echo this ^.
Plus ramps are the worst place to experiment with unfamiliarity (bike, skills, ramp etc) because vehicles drop everything from extra water from an A/C evaporator, to oil laying on a unibody chassis part that gives it up to the g force on the corner, to gravel from trucks both having debris on frame rails, but also pulling gravel onto the ramp from cutting it too tight.
Glad to hear you got away with it and was able to learn your enormous error.
If it has a centre stand, it was probably scraping on the side of the pavement foot but could be anything from pegs to mufflers, brackets, even fairings will touch on some bikes.
I recommend full gear on a 'track' or...if you absolutely MUST find your limit.. a deserted highway with corners you not only can see around, but if you lose it, it's into a field, with soft ground, no rocks/trees/sign posts/ guardrails etc.
Keep in mind though that I suspect you were leaning that bike a lot more than obviously you should have been and because it was a hot day and maybe pretty good rubber they stuck. My concern here is that you were experiementing, not only in the worst possible place, but really not having any clue of what you or the bike was doing either. Testing for limits, responsibly, should be not on a public hwy, but also is a gradual learning curve, and no two corners are identical. You might not grind in one but will in another at an even slower speed.
Then there is the issue of weight. If you are heavy and if the bike has the preload set soft (and Kawi doesn't really spend a lot on susp bits on your bike in the first place...although technically we could be talking about 5 year old HonYamSuz RR's also and those too often don't have springs capable of having the right adjustment unless you're 150 lb or less) then ground clearance can run out pretty quick.
And finally, aside from the fact that ramps are the worst place to experiment, short ramps/corners don't give you the room to go wide if you a) feel it going wide/drifting/tires losing grip...and that's if you're lucky with an impending lowside, worse if they slide and grab when you go wtf, and back out of it too aggressively and then find traction and pitch you into suspension-compressed catapulting high-side.
You may have no idea how close you were to being pitched 20' in the air up into the grill of a truck doing 100+ kph. (not that it would take a truck to end you but you get the idea.
I recommend taking a course or two and head to the track. It'll be the best investment you ever make, not only for yourself but for your family and loved ones too.
