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At 30 miles an hour, that bike is going 44 feet per second. If that tire bounces for half a second, he's going to go 22 feet with no contact on the road and if he's into a hard turn and that rear end of that bike bounces, it will come right out from underneath him. If it's known to be dangerous, we really can't sign off on it."

Hoar said one solution would be to register the motorcycles in a vintage or antique class similar to what is done with restored cars, but even at that, those vehicles may only be driven to and from shows and aren't licensed to be on the road on a daily basis.



"The issue with the (hard tail) bikes is that they're absolutely terrible, and typically, we kill at least one person a year on a rigid-frame motorcycle. It's usually a single-vehicle accident where somebody is on a secondary road coming into a turn a little bit too fast,"



geez that sounds bogus. a 1/2 second bounce would be a heck of a thing wouldn't it?

also, i don't have real stats but, back of the envelopes says there are 6-ish MC deaths in NB in a year so 15% of them are due to hardtail bikes?