Best handlebars for lane splitting?
Road Master
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I think my apes are kind of wide and but I can still lane split most of the time when I need to. However, if there are vans or big trucks side by side, no way I will make it through.
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From: Detroit
Yeah, stupid cagers do stupid stuff all the time. Riding skill means knowing and anticipating that, and having strategies to deal with it.
Last edited by Warp Factor; Nov 4, 2013 at 11:18 PM.
Road Captain
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From: Cardboard Box
You've made your point, now will you just, ya know, go away?
Road Master
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"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.
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.
Second...per the statistics, and my own 3 years of experience in CA, lane splitting is not inherently more dangerous than riding in general. Just like all of your riding, it's about knowing your own abilities and limits.
I hate to get on a fellow rider, but I HATE hearing this type of **** from our own. This is the bullshit propaganda that leads to ignorant cagers voting down lane splitting everywhere. And because of it, I sit in ridiculous Austin traffic in 100+ degree temps on an overheating air-cooled engine 3 months out of the year.
I apologize for continuing the derailment of this thread.
Road Captain
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From: Cardboard Box
First off...YOU ride, which is, relatively speaking, very unsafe and therefore by your logic YOU don't care about your loved ones, and therefore you are a hypocrite. This is of course an asinine way of thinking, I hope you realize.
Second...per the statistics, and my own 3 years of experience in CA, lane splitting is not inherently more dangerous than riding in general. Just like all of your riding, it's about knowing your own abilities and limits.
I hate to get on a fellow rider, but I HATE hearing this type of **** from our own. This is the bullshit propaganda that leads to ignorant cagers voting down lane splitting everywhere. And because of it, I sit in ridiculous Austin traffic in 100+ degree temps on an overheating air-cooled engine 3 months out of the year.
I apologize for continuing the derailment of this thread.
Second...per the statistics, and my own 3 years of experience in CA, lane splitting is not inherently more dangerous than riding in general. Just like all of your riding, it's about knowing your own abilities and limits.
I hate to get on a fellow rider, but I HATE hearing this type of **** from our own. This is the bullshit propaganda that leads to ignorant cagers voting down lane splitting everywhere. And because of it, I sit in ridiculous Austin traffic in 100+ degree temps on an overheating air-cooled engine 3 months out of the year.
I apologize for continuing the derailment of this thread.
Road Master
Joined: Dec 2012
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From: CO
I have lived in TN, IN, CO, CA and now TX. Have driven in almost every state. Austin drivers are hands down the worst and most dangerous to be around.
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Road Master
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From: Cali
doesnt help that population doubled in the last 20 years. but infrastructure stagnated.