Strapped the video camera on the bike Tuesday morning

[dean]

that's some crazy *****! i suppose i'd get used to it if i lived there and it helped. but never having done it, just scares the crap outta me.

surely you've bumped/nudged other cars while driving past, what do you do? just give a friendly sorry wave? i'm sure people where you are are as freaky about their cars as they are here, i'm curious what you do when that happens.

not a naysayer here, just amazed and curious..

 

[James Burleigh]

that's some crazy *****! i suppose i'd get used to it if i lived there and it helped. but never having done it, just scares the crap outta me.
surely you've bumped/nudged other cars while driving past, what do you do? just give a friendly sorry wave? i'm sure people where you are are as freaky about their cars as they are here, i'm curious what you do when that happens.

not a naysayer here, just amazed and curious..

Howdy, Dean. Thanks for you post. A couple of times on city streets when slowly (with feet on the ground paddle-walking the bike between very tight, stopped cars) I'll clip someone's mirror. I usually just keep moving because I know there is no damage, and I don't want to find out if the mirror belongs to a psychopath who just slaughtered his whole family and is heading to the border. On the freeway, at speed, I've never touched a car, with or without saddlebags.

Actually, in my roughly four years of full-time commuting by motorcycle, it was on this very ride in to work (in a segment that didn't make it into the 3-min vid 'cause I didn't want to suffer the shame and agony of Forum Scolders jumping all over my a**), that I came closest to getting scrunched.

Remember that final scene of the film Independence Day with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum when they're in the alien mother ship escaping, but the door is closing, and they have to gun it, just scraping through as the door closes and the chasing alien ships smash into the door? Well when you're riding ahead of the pace in traffic (see ToeCutter post about this strategy, which is also my strategy), you often come across similar situations--i.e., you're in the no. 2 late accelerating past a car in the no. 1 (fast lane), and approaching ahead of you at a fairly brisk closing speed in the no. 2 lane a third car going slower than the two of you. And your intention is to merge back into the no. 1 lane safely and with margin for error so no one gets scrunched, upset, cut off, etc....

Well, sometimes the door starts to close quickly, and you're carrying a lot of speed (those feejers sure can accelerate! )...

Better ask me at NAFO.

Jb

 

[Kevin Daly]

Do you ever ride on anything less than 6 lanes wide ?

 

[James Burleigh]

Do you ever ride on anything less than 6 lanes wide ?

Sometimes, on weekends.... :yahoo:

 

[AVGeek]

Boy do I miss lane "sharing" (the actual legal definition in California). We could certainly use it in Vegas (Kingdom of Tailgaters); I saw an accident the other day where a woman had rear-ended a guy on a custom chopper. The bike was being held up as its rear wheel was wedged rather far into the front bumper.

 

[worldbound4now]

Agreed. Las Vegas needs lane sharing... I do it on occasion despite the law. Waiting to be cited.

worldbound4now

 

[BwanaDik]

Nice Vid, JB. I wish we could lane share here in Texas but we'd probably get knocked off by the mirrors of the F450 4X4 diesel dually that we're passing. Had a law proposed for it here but it died in committie. Oh well. I grew up in El Lay and really miss the lane spliting. We lived in London for 3 years, now there is some good riding territory! Also went to Switzerland twice, all of Europe allows "filtering". Very civilized

 

[dean]

Nice Vid, JB. I wish we could lane share here in Texas but we'd probably get knocked off by the mirrors of the F450 4X4 diesel dually that we're passing. Had a law proposed for it here but it died in committie. Oh well. I grew up in El Lay and really miss the lane spliting. We lived in London for 3 years, now there is some good riding territory! Also went to Switzerland twice, all of Europe allows "filtering". Very civilized

nice, i haven't seen the "el lay" reference since joe bob briggs drive-in movie reviews.

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