There's doofuses everywhere isn't there.
I find it amusing when some "I'm more important than you" guy driving right up my ass, passes me in a parking lane only to then be right up the ass of the car that was 20 feet in front of me.. You're not gaining anything fella are you..

 

Yes they don't, but they are saving a bit of padding on their brakes. Very little, but pads are expensive on foreigns such as an S65.

 

Ya but come on now, preaching about the above on a sportbike forum - which forum is most likely largely populated by ego/testosterone-driven young males - is akin to standing on a soap-box in the middle of a maximum security prison, and yelling at the prisoners to behave themselves and observe the decalogue (the ten commandments).

:tredmill

 

Ya but come on now, preaching about the above on a sportbike forum - which forum is most likely largely populated by ego/testosterone-driven young males - is akin to standing on a soap-box in the middle of a maximum security prison, and yelling at the prisoners to behave themselves and observe the decalogue (the ten commandments).

:tredmill

Yeah, I guess you're right.

I see these RIP and rider down threads, and see the stuff today, and put 2 and 2 together. Don't get me WTO g, ad a motorcycle rider, I would Never do such a thing, but honestly, he was so close to my tailgate, a simple tap of the brakes by some red neck and he'd be picking the paint of the tail gate out of his teeth. You are playing the odds when riding like that .

 

Tl;dr: "get off my lawn"

 

Since thread drift is the way of the forum, I'd like to know who rides the shoulder when there's heavy traffic. It's illegal, yes? When I was on the bike for 8 hours last Monday and the final stretch was long weekend traffic on the slab, I was so tempted to fire up the shoulder (many bikes were doing it), but I refrained.

 

Since thread drift is the way of the forum, I'd like to know who rides the shoulder when there's heavy traffic. It's illegal, yes?

A: people willing to accept the risk of getting caught.

I've done it. I've been caught. Several times.
I'll continue to do it, selectively. Time and place, and all that. I'm sure I'll be nabbed again one day. But frankly that's a $risk$ I'm willing to take for my own personal expressway to cut through standstill traffic on a hot day.

It's an ass-backwards restriction. Data has shown benefits. Those not comfortable with it, like yourself, certainly may opt NOT to do it.
But to restrict it completely, is questionable and unnecessary. Done correctly and with courtesy and caution, there really shouldn't be an issue with it. It's done routinely around the world.
I thought BCCOM was apparently making headway at some point with this being legalized here (?any updates on that?), but it seems there's still bureaucratic (and cager!) resistance.
After all, when traffics gridlocked, no ones speeding, so we need to have something $worthwhile$ for those poor officers to do...

 

so now you are butthurt over someone splitting and shoulder riding?

 

Sorry about the spelling, big fingers and little iPhone keys,,,,,,,,,

 

The sad truth is the person who rides aggressively is long gone and the person who a car driver may not be considerate towards is the one minding his own business.

Kind of like 5 years ago when the rides were broken in to fast and slow groups, the fast group would swarm cars at intersections and race away, and the slow group would get stopped when they came through 15 minutes later by the police responding to the public complaints.

No Max, we're not butt hurt just pissed that some people ride like assholes and chance a bad outcome. Remember when you went to pass a line of Corvette's and they weren't considerate to let you back into the lane and closed up to hold you on the center line. As you rode the double solid between those oncoming trucks and cars it would have been nice if one of those cars had let you into the lane.

Every day we deal with inattentive, distracted, incompetent, inconsiderate drivers and on the odd day some exhibit great animosity and really take a run at you, fucking with cars just brings out the worst in some drivers and since their in 5000 lbs steel box's we lose.

 

that wasnt why i couldnt pass them. half way through the bike stopped making power. either something mechanical or i was in the wrong gear, but it just stopped accelerating.

and no, it wasnt topped out. nowhere close.

 

Eye roll...........both eyes

 

well. when you twist the twisty grip to the stop and speed indicator stays the same, what do you call it?

 

Burn't clutch? Rev limiter?I don't know.

Anyhow, I had a good laugh the other day, got to last intersection in Abby, had to make a left, in front of me was one of the same company trucks that I operate 5 days a week... so instead of waiting, I cut around him and pulled in front of the truck at the light. When light went green, zip out of the way and into the same parking lot... truck races in behind me. Driver jumps out of truck ready to see what my problem is....lol That's when I took my helmet off, that's when I went from being supreme A hole your gonna get beat, to hey! Your Awesome!.. (the driver is half my age).

I think if you know the person that is pulling weird driving behaviour, it all just doesn't seem like its that illegal.
I'm sure everyone in the company will hear about my bad behaviour and most likely get a good laugh.

And Shady, It is nice to see that you have great patience for the rest of us.

 

Cheeky Booby, na it's more like the time distortion that happens when you realize whether you live or die is dependent on what you do in the next few seconds. Ride the center line and thing thin thoughts and wait for a opening to develop, however you got there is irrelevant, it's what you do to survive the situation that counts.

Simmiler to cooking a corner where you feel time slows down as your not certain your going to make it, you remember every foot of pavement as it passes under the bike, then some guy on a HP-2 blasts past.

 

There is no way I will sit in stalled (or semi stalled) traffic when there is a perfectly good shoulder. I go slow enough not to scare anyone and look out for debris (and heat). I always do it. Example: getting to the Nexus lane at Sumas. Do it sensibly and like you know exactly what you are doing and I don't think reasonable people would be pissed off.

 

Well my buddies and I passed a shit ton of cars and bikes today riding at ridiculous speeds all through the canyons...and I will do it all over again tomorrow.

 

The guys that ride like asshats will get theirs one day. It's just a matter of time.

The thing with riding the shoulder. When traffic is backed up you rarely see police in the middle of it. They know to stay clear. You just have to watch far enough ahead if they are setup to grab shoulder riders. I have done it on a few occasions when its really hot, or some cager is being aggressive in some way. I get around them on the shoulder. I might stay in the shoulder for a while too, just to be certain they can't possibly hope to catch up.

Hopefully lane filtering/splitting will become a reality here one day, but it seems there is a lot of opposition to it.

 

Rode home with three guys I met in hope yesterday in the crazy weather that was going on then, and the one guy was no more than six feet behind a truck going 120 for about half an hour, in the pouring rain. Not sure wtf he was thinking, but he's from Calgary, so it's possible that he either doesn't know what rain is, or isn't aware that traffic usually comes to a grinding half a few klicks behind Chilliwack in the best of weather. I was pretty worred he was end up as a permanent punctuation at the end of the word FORD, but it didn't go that way.

No point in starting a post preaching about it, but I sure as hell wonder what goes on in some people's heads sometimes... My point is when I first started reading this post I thought the OP was referring to us, till I saw the day he was referring to.

 

but I sure as hell wonder what goes on in some people's heads sometimes...

Not much, apparently :laughing :laughing

 

This thread gave me cancer.