With respect!... push their luck ?.... that road has zero traffic and zero T-junctions to it. All those corners are sweepers, could go 80 around them easy if you wanted...
I ride that road at least once a year over Lolo Pass. You are right, it is not a particularly technical road. Yet people on bikes are badly injured or killed with monotonous regularity on it. It follows a river along much of it, with blind curves as the rule. There is a lot of wildlife. There are a lot of tourists doing unpredictable things in their goddam RVs. There's a lot of heavy truck traffic, log trucks in particular. And there are dumb asses on motorcycles, one of whom nearly took my wife and I out head-on on our GS two years ago when he blew a corner.
You are a long way from any medical facilities in that area. A lot of motorcyclists or their insurance companies have paid for helicopters rides out of there to the hospital. If someone wants to play ricky racer and take a blind corner at 80 or 90 out in the middle of nowhere (on an old CB with squeaky brakes, no less), that is their business I guess. One thing though. The cops are getting tired of collecting dead bodies off of 12, 21, on other roads. By the middle of summer, they start getting really anal about speed enforcement after they've had to respond to a few crashes. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have the extra attention.
