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I got ginormous saddlebags on the Strat, but I don't think they stick out any farther than my bars/mirrors.
I always start every ride with a backwards lane split and end every ride with a forwards lane split into a rising garage door, sliding in between the two Piece of Crap cages sitting in my driveway. Good practice!
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Mr. Alan, that's a great practice....^^ I, first, thought that you are doing on the road...with your tank-bike. Until I read garage door part...
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Wow, if you tried that in Atlanta (it's illegal here) the cage riders would take you out in a hundred yards just out of meanness! I've seen people try to put a rider into the concrete barrier wall because they were sitting in traffic and the bike was riding by in the "pull off" lane. Now don't get me wrong, southerners are very hospitable most of the time, but Atlanta drivers are rude and short tempered in my experience.
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You do that to your garage door too!!!! I keep waiting till one day when I time it wrong and take my freakin' head off with it.
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Yea you try that crap in Little Rock (or here for that matter) and somebody would open their car door up and take you out just for spite, because you are getting through traffic faster than they are.
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11-05-2009, 05:21 PM | #28 |
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It's been known to happen out here too. It's easy to understand the frustration. There are few places on the planet with more cars "not going anywhere for a while" than Southern California. Add in a neon colored sport bike and a fuchsia mohawk helmet and you are literally cruising for a bruising.
They're just jealous - and with good reason! We also get to ride in the carpool lanes, we're not subject to the seat belt laws and I've had two instances in recent weeks of parking attendants waving me through the parking garage (so I didn't have to pay!) One was at LAX. Saved me almost 20 bucks. You do have to duck around the wooden barrier arm thingie. Almost couldn't do it on the big bike. I did discover, contrary to popular belief, we are NOT exempt from tolls on the toll roads.
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Parking at school is a perk too. I don't have to get a "sticker" and I can pretty much park anywhere as long as I'm not blocking something or someone. If it is raining I usually drive up the sidewalks and park under the awning of one of the Mechanical buildings that just houses equipment.
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