A motorbike rider who fell 20 metres down a steep embankment near Bright on Saturday was left injured and alone for 90 minutes before friends found him.
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The rider lost control on a tight 45-degree corner and skidded off the road sideways before becoming airborne.
The Hume Region High Angle emergency services team responded with both CFA and SES members on scene.
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"He was in a group of riders and to their credit they had a plan that the 'tail-end Charley' does a head count and when someone is not accounted for they start searching," Myrtleford police Sergeant Paul Evans said.
"They thought he might have run out of fuel or got ahead of them.
"But without that riding plan, he wouldn't have been found for a while longer."
Once the team was on-site the rescue took about 45 minutes. The man was taken to Wangaratta Hospital with serious internal injuries.
