If your answer was “Depends on their speed” your right!

 It’s hard to judge from a picture the speed and distance of these bikes , but at around 40-50 mph this would probably be an acceptable following distance. Unfortunately I’ve been on both sides of the following to close equation.

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Kinda gives ya a knot in the gut doesn’t it?  What’s your first impression?

  To some it would probably be something like, “Sportbikes are just dangerous” or “They must have been going too fast.”  Although rider error does contribute to a lot of motorcycle crashes, 75% actually involve collisions with another vehicle, with the leading cause being failure on the the other motorist part to recognize the motorcycle. I won’t get into the stats too much, if ya want to find out out more you can check out the NHTSA site. It has some really good info.

 What I want to do is focus on ways to avoid accidents.

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