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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 09:30 PM
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OP asks for advice on bars and gets told how to live...nice.
Ya post on a public forum, and ya gets what ya gets.
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 09:34 PM
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Dude, first off, it's hard to get boxed off in front, if you're on the ball. Unless someone in front of you backs up, that's an escape path which is almost totally under your control, if you leave sufficient following distance. You're probably better powering off into a cornfield, than getting rear ended by a truck. Kinda your choice.
must be nice to never have been caught in this:
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 09:34 PM
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OP, I likes your apes, get em back! To the rest, life is made up of choices, make your best and hope it works,
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 09:36 PM
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My 16" apes do just fine. Ive only hit 2 mirrors. You lane splitter haters are funny.
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 09:37 PM
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My 16" apes do just fine. Ive only hit 2 mirrors.
trucks im guessing?
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by slozomby
must be nice to never have been caught in this:

Done that. "Powering off into a cornfield" was a midwest colloquialism, although I grew up (if I ever did) on the west coast. Expected that some people wouldn't get it.
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 10:19 PM
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trucks im guessing?
1 lifter ford ranger and a mini van.
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Warp Factor
There is no such thing as "effective lane splitting", if you care about the people who care about you. Pretty much a disaster waiting to happen.
Completely untrue. Successfully done in California and all over the world. Most of the US states just don't give a **** about motorcyclists.
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Warp Factor
Why the heck would you risk some jackass running over you while you're stopped in traffic?
Start thinking about all the available options, man.

You live in California, and I've lived in California, and other states. Tell me somethin' about reality.
Happens all the ****ing time! Nearly happened to me last night! God damn I want to knock you in the head right now!
 
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Old Nov 4, 2013 | 10:53 PM
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Completely untrue. Successfully done in California and all over the world. Most of the US states just don't give a **** about motorcyclists.
"Successfully done" would depend on you definition of success.
I split lanes for a time when I lived in California, and then gave it up voluntarily after a few reality checks with mortality.
Not caring whether you live or die is kind of cool in a way, but more a blatant act of selfishness, unless you have no one who depends on you, and no one who cares about you.
 
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