Originally Posted by Frankie

Target fixation does not equal riding too fast to negotiate a curve. I strongly doubt he was staring at the telephone pole. I know when I ride I don't normally stare at poles, and I doubt this guy was either. Probability says he was speeding and riding outside of his limits, couldn't negotiate a turn (not because he was staring at a pole, a tree, an original print of Pink Floyd's The Wall on vinyl, or some chick's tits), and ended up slamming into a pole during a panic. Sounds like you're just having fun with symantecs and definitions, and totally forgot about reality.

It's hard to negotiate turns when your bike is 5 feet wide and lowered 2 inches. He was probably going too fast, which means not really that fast at all, and ran his ass into the oncoming lane. Shit, I don't have 5 feet of crash guards and I was daring enough to go 60mph on Gunn the other day!

I never open a newspaper, but any online reports I read normally have to do with a sport bike.