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"If you have any high speed riding experience you'll agree that if you're doing 160 miles an hour and coming up on traffic doing 55 and you attempt to pass them on the right, you'll initiate the turn well in advance."

I never make anyone nervous, which closing and passing at that speed differential would cause. However if it was on a closed course and the cage didn't use signals and purposely attempted to move and hit me during the pass, or attempted to cause a rear end at that differential, they wouldn't be able to do it.

I agree that it's best for a cage seeing that kind of dangerous action should stay put, because someone doing that most likely can't ride anyway.

"...you'll have already traveled an additional 200 or so feet closer to him."

I practice threading those dashed white lane markers indefinitely at 60 mph, as if they were long cones. That's about a 5' sideways shift ~ every 10'. At 65, they get tougher and the ride gets violent, but still can be done. At 120 every 3 can be threaded, and certainly a single shift is very easy at that speed. That's within 30 ft. A normal cage can't cover a lane width at 60 in that distance. The tires and suspension won't handle it. The cage will flip, or come close to flipping.

What's tough is having a deer drop out of the sky ~10ft in front while doing 70, snapping to go around where he's not going to be in a few msecs, and having the thing put on the brakes at 3' closing, and turning to watch you hit him in the ass. The last snap back up to brace for the hit to avoid getting the bike slapped right down is critical. LOL.