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Motorcycle fatalities in the Sacramento Area

18626 Views 102 Replies 33 Participants Last post by  eddyline
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Seriously though, I guess I'd have to agree with Sean. Even the new rider on the Harley may have been taking risks that were a little too high in general - I don't know how fast he happened to be going, but I know I routinely see guys going down two-lane rural roads at night as fast as they would during the day. Now maybe some guys have much better night perception than I do, but I'll say that for me I tend to back off some at night, finding my ability to judge exact distances and speeds not as precise in darkness than in the light of day, not to mention making reading the road ahead of you from a long way off that much harder. I believe it's called "out-riding your headlights".
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The lean angle on a stock dyna or softail, is way more than the riding abilities of 75% of cruiser riders and 70% of sportbike riders.



I'd bet a years salary that virtually all "running off the road" accidents ran off the road with at least 10 more degrees of lean left in thier bikes.
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