Motorcycles

[Rager]

Matt, any speeding tickets on that new bike?...just for you--

You SURE We're Only Going 50?

Wed Jun 2,10:59 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. (news - web sites) Ltd. is recalling nearly 8,200 model year 2004 motorcycles because of a computer glitch that could prompt their drivers to go too fast, federal safety regulators said on Tuesday.



The program error causes the digital speedometer on some of the motorcycles to understate actual vehicle speed by about 25 percent, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (news - web sites) said.


"This condition can result in the vehicle being driven at an illegal or unsafe speed," NHTSA said in an advisory on its Web site.


It did not elaborate, but state police may already have noticed a disproportionate number of people breaking speed limits lately on late-model Honda motorcycles.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=2&u=/nm/20040602/od_nm/autos_honda...