I think it's depends on the angle of attack and the lean angle of the motorcycle. 90 degrees and straight up and down would be no problem. It's a freeway offramp with a hard right to merge onto Ventura Blvd, so hitting it at anything near a 90 degree angle of attack would send you flying into the other traffic lanes nearly perpendicular to traffic. I watched one motorcycle come within inches of hitting it. My guess is that had he hit it he would have gone down.

I hit it at a very shallow angle since I was unaware of it's presence. Were my bike equipped with a high power HID headlight instead of the cateye led I would probably have seen it.