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Old 06-29-20, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by tcs
FWIW the old Hurt Report found that the cycle's color was immaterial with motorcycle accidents. It was out of this study that the US requirement for motorcycles to run lights in the daytime came about.

However, other later motorcycle-based safety studies have found a correlation between a lessened vehicle collision rate and white or bright solid color helmets.
interesting, I'd never heard about that study and report. Seems to me that when I got into motorcycles in the late 70s, in Canada anyway, all bikes had the headlights on automatically at that point. My very first bike didn't, but it waa really old even then, probably a 70 or something, maybe even a late 60s,I don't recall. I just remember being able to turn the headlight off.
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