Spring Riding

[d190]

I am a year round rider, but I have noticed a tremendous increase in scooters as the weather getting a bit nicer on the Left Coast...and have noticed the increase in accidents...

Locally have killed two in a little over a week...LEFT turning CAGES!!!!!!!! Neither of the killed were hot rodders, one was a 40ish female...

Be careful, cages are NOT use to seeing scooters after winter and riders that haven't been out on a scoot for a few months plus potholes....all make for a more dangerous ride.....

Be safe folks.......

[ms_tapestry]

Thanks for the reminder to ride as though I were invisible. . .to most cagers I am. :Angel_anim:

[kd5cqt]

Now I know why the left turning cager ran over me last April!

[d190]

Now I know why the left turning cager ran over me last April!

The other morning, I woke up a SUV driver....normally, at oh-darky-thirty when I go to work, I expect everyone on the road to be asleep behind the wheel...so I give them lotsa room...BUT once in awhile I "waken up...."

I wired my large Kuryakyn silver bullet spots to my high beams...I was in the right lane and a SUV started over into my lane...no signal..no look...I lit their right mirror up....I hope they wore that cup of coffee I am sure they were drinking...I bet that driver was awake the rest of the commute...

Early morning drivers get so complacent as they don't expect many vehicles on the road and never look for a scooter...like I said, I normally just give them lotsa and room and ignore their stupidity...but that one just right for me to give a wake up call...those silver bullets in the mirror lite up the whole inside of a SUV...

If I get caught up on bills, I think an air horn is my next install on the Ultra...

[Rewind]

I needed an air horn today. The wife and I were on our bike (leading) and a buddy was behind us on his Goldwing. We're tooling down the road when a lady in a minivan approaches from the opposite direction.........first I notice she is awfully close to the centerline............then she crosses the centerline into my lane just as we are about to pass each other, I swerve out of the way and then check my buddy behind me and he's safe too..........she got back over into her lane. I hope she chit in her pants.

[ErnieS]

I was coming up to a light today and a guy in a car to my right just comes over into my lane, dead broadside of me. There was a car to my left, so I was dead on the yellow line. He's staring straight ahead and doesn't see me a foot away. I reached over and knocked on his window and scared the crap out of him. As is usually the case, he won't lower his window so I had to shout. I told him that he had cut me off with a lot of deleted expletives, and he mouthed the usual, I didn't see you to which I replied. "How do you think that makes me feel?" I really wanted to take out my switchblade and run it down his door as he pulled away from the light, but I let it go.
We don't see the spring problems you folks farther north get. Motorcycles are on the road all year, and we don't get the sand and salt, except after hurricanes. But, our population tends to be older than the rest of the country so we have the "dimly aware" year round.

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And that's just plain scary!!!!

[kd5cqt]

As I sit here feeling my healing ankle throb as I read this, it makes me wish these bikes came equipped with a .50 call machine gun.

[d190]

As I sit here feeling my healing ankle throb as I read this, it makes me wish these bikes came equipped with a .50 call machine gun.

From the LA-LA-land Griffith Park Hack show of 2006.....URAL makes new rigs with gun mounts... http://www.ural.cc/index.php?ranger

[kd5cqt]

Now that has some possibilities!

[Screwball]

In California it is called Lane Sharing, and is perfictly legal. NOT legal in most other states.