[akira700]

article states:
"Speed was cited in 57 percent of supersport riders fatal crashes in 2005 and 46 percent of the fatal crashes of sport and unclad sport riders. Speed was a factor in 27 percent of fatal crashes among riders on cruisers and standards and 22 percent on touring motorcycles."

So speed was the issue in only 27% of fatal crashes among riders of cruisers.
I then take this to mean that most of the other 73% who died, did so because of inability to TURN their nasty over weight beasts away from on coming traffic even at normal legal speeds !

Point is: We need to see the raw data here. These little blurbs are just not telling the whole story.