Black ain't good Roids. You DO want to be seen by all the knuckle heads out there that do NOT look twice. The brighter the better is what I say. I don't care how silly I or the bike look. I want every chance I can get to be noticed on the road. Just my humble opinion.
y'all are forgetting the most important counter-argument to "that thing'll kill ya". Crashes & Accidents rarely have one cause. It's one of the first things that they teach you in the MSF class.