Just to clarify, my opposition is to drawing a connection between performance and safety, where there is none. The end game is you are discouraging smaller (and somewhat more efficient) bikes on a false perception. There is no pissing match per-se, just clearing up of misconceptions:
tedius data follows:
http://isddc.dot.gov/OLPFiles/NHTSA/013695.pdf
"Note that the
large motorcycles (750~ and above) represent approximately one-third of all the
accidents but are involved in approximately one-half of these fatal accidents."