riding habit??
Big Kahuna HDF Member
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 29,598
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From: Oregon
I never sit in neutral. If someone on a cell phone wants to drive right through my azz end, I'm ready to go somewhere - anywhere - to get away from them.
I'm careful how and where I stop. I stay back from any car in front of me and I'm at a slight angle so I can go somewhere, even if it means jamming the bike between a couple of cars or jumping a curb.
I had an EZ Clutch installed on my wife's WG so she can easily hold the clutch. I think it cost about $50 installed.
$.02
I'm careful how and where I stop. I stay back from any car in front of me and I'm at a slight angle so I can go somewhere, even if it means jamming the bike between a couple of cars or jumping a curb.
I had an EZ Clutch installed on my wife's WG so she can easily hold the clutch. I think it cost about $50 installed.
$.02
Road Warrior
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 1,774
Likes: 3
From: Chattanooga, TN
Greetings,
After a couple of close calls with cagers not slowing down behind me, I got out of that habit real quick. I'm always in gear and if somebody is barrelling up behind me, ready to get out of the way.
After a couple of close calls with cagers not slowing down behind me, I got out of that habit real quick. I'm always in gear and if somebody is barrelling up behind me, ready to get out of the way.
Road Master
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 969
Likes: 3
From: Maine
I never sit in neutral. If someone on a cell phone wants to drive right through my azz end, I'm ready to go somewhere - anywhere - to get away from them.
I'm careful how and where I stop. I stay back from any car in front of me and I'm at a slight angle so I can go somewhere, even if it means jamming the bike between a couple of cars or jumping a curb.
I had an EZ Clutch installed on my wife's WG so she can easily hold the clutch. I think it cost about $50 installed.
$.02
I'm careful how and where I stop. I stay back from any car in front of me and I'm at a slight angle so I can go somewhere, even if it means jamming the bike between a couple of cars or jumping a curb.
I had an EZ Clutch installed on my wife's WG so she can easily hold the clutch. I think it cost about $50 installed.
$.02
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Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Rochester, NY
I never sit in neutral. If someone on a cell phone wants to drive right through my azz end, I'm ready to go somewhere - anywhere - to get away from them.
I'm careful how and where I stop. I stay back from any car in front of me and I'm at a slight angle so I can go somewhere, even if it means jamming the bike between a couple of cars or jumping a curb.
I'm careful how and where I stop. I stay back from any car in front of me and I'm at a slight angle so I can go somewhere, even if it means jamming the bike between a couple of cars or jumping a curb.
Maybe I'm a little paranoid (ya think?), but I seems to me that far too many people get hurt on bikes for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their ability to ride. A large percentage get hit and or hurt just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
So if I keep the bike in gear its because if I suddenly discover I'm someplace at the "wrong time". I want to retain the ability to be gone from that "wrong place" as quickly as possible.
Elite HDF Member
Joined: Sep 2008
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From: Grayland, WA.
Down to first, then neutral. Keep eyes in back for cage coming up.
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Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Punta Gorda,FL
Always have it in first at a stop and blip the brake light 2 or 3 times as a car is approaching from behind. I leave extra room between me and the car that is stopped in front, so I can get around him if a vehicle coming from behind looks like it isn't going to stop in time.
I had a friend crippled at a red light. Some crack head women hit him from behind. They estimated she was going 60mph and never hit her brakes.
Tom
I had a friend crippled at a red light. Some crack head women hit him from behind. They estimated she was going 60mph and never hit her brakes.
Tom
