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.
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
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.