I think your definition and mine are different for lane splitting. I see it as using the berm or going between cars traveling in the same direction as you. The rules in California where it is legal dictate no more than 10 mph faster than the traffic your splitting. I think its 10mph, maybe it's 15 or 20 but you get the idea...
There's="Bert, post: 479327, member: 2580"]I work with this lady.[/QUOTE] There's a thin, pale line between bravery and insanity and one is never sure on which side she/he stands.
I know what lane splitting is, but my point is, you expect to use "your" lane and nobody else should be in it. And you say its ok to use someone elses lane too. You can't have it both ways. I see your point in stop and go traffic. But being in a hurry doesn't allow anyone to use more than one lane. Nothing good can come out of lane splitting.
High speed lane splitting is dangerous for sure. Passing on a double yellow..... with a clear line of sight..... is less than a dangerous proposition on a cycle. A good pass on my ST only leaves me in "the wrong lane" for about 2 seconds....
I look at it the other way. MM always rides hard. Rossi couldn't finish it on his own, so he lierally kicked Marquez off the track. Rossi's poor judgement cost him the title.
Way too much testosterone among the riders posting here. As far as lane splitting, I lived and rode in SoCal and lane split every day on the way to work. There are no rules about the amount you can exceed the speed of nearby traffic but the CHP came out with a suggestion of 15 or 20 MPH that lasted a few weeks before they were required to remove that advice because it looked like they were suggesting lane splitting. As far as pushing the limits of traction I ride daily most of the year and have done so for a long time. Any aggressive kid can pass me on any corner using almost any bike because I know that loose sand or gravel will put me down if I try to corner hard and hit some in the corner. I average close to 10,000 miles each year of riding and much of it is simple commuting miles along with one or two "vacation" type trips. Riding is relaxing and can help me shed the day's worries. Riding hard would remove much of that relaxation. I mostly ride solo but ride mostly 2-up when on those longer trips. This is my present ride.
I had a Monster with the standard dented tank. I put a Val Rossi sticker on the dent, seemed fitting.
Oh, I agree with that 100%, BUT... MM clearly can ride away from him (@ any given time) and chooses not to. The guy is fast & I give credit where credit is due but I lost a lot of respect after seeing how he gravitated toward 46 and hung out there, more than once.
I wouldn't call it gravitating towards Rossi. Without knowing how the tires were holding up on Marquez's Honder, it's hard to say he was doing it intentionally. The rc213v was a hard to ride beast last year. The motor had a hard to use power delivery, and that destroyed tires. Also the M1 has been a very smooth bike, has been for years. I have no doubt that Rossi's tires were on better shape than MM's. Rossi is usually very smooth. Marquez is more abrupt. Put those riding styles together with totally different behaving bikes, and you get one bike that is harder on tires. I just don't buy into the whole conspiracy theory that Marquez tried to help a different rider, not his teammate, win the title because they are both Spanish. There's a lot of Spanish riders. What I do see is Rossi acting way less mature about it than someone his age should, especially off the track. That aside, how can it really be aside though despite warnings by dorna , this season should be a good one.
No, No, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haven't you been reading? Lane splitting, curb riding, berm passing, corner cutting, knee dragging, passing on a double line, basically doing what ever you want on a motorcycle, is totally acceptable. Because it is the crazy car drivers causing all the problems. . This thread has been very enlightening though.
It's the cagers. They are the issue in most cases. They don't pay attention. They are too busy tapping on their phones to bother with driving. If you don't ride like a cager will run you over, it will happen to you. I just chose to not be a statistic, and get away from bad drivers. Let's put it this way. A car will not fall over all on its own, but a bike will. It takes a good rider to keep a bike upright for 50-100k or more. A bad car driver can keep all 4 tires on the ground and still kill other motorists.
Yep. I ride it mostly at the posted highway speeds but that includes the 80 MPH that I found posted in September in Utah. It will cruise all day at well over 80 but I am seldom in that kind of a hurry. In my mind a sport bike (crotch rocket) is for short fast rides that can get you in a lot of trouble and are never comfortable for over 30 minutes. I used to ride a Kawasaki H-1 back in the early 70s and got my fill of that kind of riding. It was a drag racing bike, a lot like today's Hayabusa is.
Not a Rossi fan boy btw MM didn't do it to help his teammate win the title, it was so he didn't have a larger number of total championships to eventually eclipse.
I despise the use of the term "crotch rocket". We've had a thread on that already so I'll let that one go. That said, not all sport bikes are uncomfortable to ride for long distances. I can run several tanks of gas through my bike in succession and be comfortable. I'm 6'4" and 250 lbs, so I'm not a small guy. I actually find many cruiser bikes uncomfortable compared to my bike. There a good number of support bikes that are really racks though, especially for guys like me. I had a 75 h1. It was a tough bike to ride. It had an on/off switch for a throttle, and a flimsy frame that would give when it shouldn't. It handled poorly too. Now the 'busa, is a great bike, for everything but roadracing. You can take it to the race track ( not just drag strip ) but it will wear you out as it's 550 lbs. It's probably one of the best sport bikes to go cross country on. I don't have any seat time on a kawi zx14, but I'm certain it's a great bike to ride cross country on as well.
That's one way to look at it, but I don't think any Rossi fan boy can think of it. There's a great interview with Marquez that was just posted. After reading it you can see that he's over last season's drama but I think it's pretty clear that Rossi isn't. The on track stuff, OK, I've had red mist syndrome at a track day. So racing, it's got to be really crazy. But it appears that the best ones can let go of it off the track, and the ones that can't have it bite them in the butt sooner or later. I'm still waiting for a herd of sheep to trample Mat Mladin. Lol
