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I do not buy the 170 either -but well above 100 yes. Back when I was working and living in Los Gatos, I used to ride every weekend up Hwy 9 up to Big Basin. Loved all the nice curvy sections -even when sometimes a tree or rockslide had dropped across the road and I had to do a bit of 'offroading' to get around the section. I used to get passed by often by ricerockets taking those same curves at high speed and lean angles. I just shook My head at what the idiot's antics were likely to get them. EVERY WEEK, the local paper listed the number of them that went over a cliff because they overshot a turn, or hit a cager going the other way. And some of them were wearing shorts, t-shirts (optional, apparently), and sneakers.

One guy even made the front page because he went over a cliff, and was severely injured with at least one broken leg that I can recall. His friends noticed that he did not come back the following Monday, and on Wednesday notified authorities he was missing. They finally found him a couple of days later when after going back and forth along Hwy 9, one of them happened to stop over a particularly narrow section where he noticed a long skid mark leading to a broken guardrail and thought he heard something when he called out the guys name. They wound up having to chopper the guy out -and only later found the bike.

About thirty feet straight up, lodged in a tree.

(C)San Jose Mercury News, about... '88 or so.