Just read a great article in this month’s Bike magazine about the psychology of motorcyclists, with particular reference to those (usually sports bikers) killed in accidents.
In a section of the article which touches on the bike industry’s attempt to rid itself of the image of promoting danger, there is a great quotation from the early 1990s, when a top HRC man described the RC30 race rep as ‘a little bit over the border of harmonisation with society’.