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Message started by alcoa on 05/02/09 at 13:19:47

Title: left-middle-right
Post by alcoa on 05/02/09 at 13:19:47

:-/when i am by myself on the open rode i ride middle and right but going thru towns or cars parked on right i ride left. how do you ride? ;)

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Jay on 05/02/09 at 13:34:17

Middle and left; unless passing a semi. Then it's farthest side of the lane I'm passing in, so I can avoid wind, gators, debris, etc.

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by T Mack 1 on 05/02/09 at 13:41:58

Two lane roads, Left tire track. Almost never the right tire track. I live in PA, and that's were most of the pot-holes are. Never, never in the center as that is were most of the oil droplets go from cars & trucks.

On four lane roads, If in the fast lane, the right tire tack so that the slow lane traffic can see me in their side mirrors. In the slow lane, left tire track so that the fast lane traffic can see me in thier right side mirror.

In more than four lane, then I move from right tire track to left tire track depending on where the cagers are.

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by verslagen1 on 05/02/09 at 13:47:05

In the spot that's safest, then most visible, then comfortable, then convienent, then fastest. except when the devil makes me do it. [smiley=evil.gif]

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Rocco on 05/02/09 at 14:23:09

i just completed day 2 of my msf safety course..did anyone know that motorcycles are allowed in the HOV lane whenever! even if it's just u on the bike....i'm sure it's country wide...but def down here in florida where the world's best drivers collide....i mean come 2gether ;)

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Yonuh Adisi on 05/02/09 at 15:03:37

Yes, it is federal law that allows it though NY hates the idea and will still give a biker a ticket for it. The AMA is not happy with New York for that.

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by John_D on 05/02/09 at 15:16:00

1E232F2F234C0 wrote:

They're allowed in Washington and Oregon too. I also just found out they're allowed in the bus lane on the on ramp, at least some of them, even says so on the signs: "Buses only-motorcycles ok". 8-)

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by JohnBoy on 05/02/09 at 16:11:09

Riding in Phoenix in the summer time is not so much where as when.
I ride I-17 north south through town, about 20 min each way. Midnight to about noon you get a firm bite going either way. Afternoons till about midnight the roads are slippery with the oils baked out of the asphalt by the AZ sun. I have blistered my feet in street shoes, waiting for a light to change. Riding in the heat can cause heatstroke, and if you go down you Fry!
102 today...and we are just getting started.

JohnBoy

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Yonuh Adisi on 05/02/09 at 16:13:47

1E3B3C3A163B2D540 wrote:

I used to live in Phoenix when I was a kid, and I still remember those Phoenix summers. New Mexico summers almost if not just as bad.

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Staplebox on 05/02/09 at 18:11:28

The way I see it I own the real estate between the yellow and the white lines and I'll use the part I like best. I generally ride left of center so I can see them coming and they (hopefully) can see me coming too.

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Rogue_Cheddar on 05/02/09 at 19:00:53

You definitely want to ride left of center, and don't follow to close to traffic in front, hang back so oncoming traffic can see you, otherwise they try to turn left after what they think is a gap between cars.

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Sandy Koocanusa on 05/02/09 at 19:35:14

What's a HOV lane? Carpool?

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Yonuh Adisi on 05/02/09 at 19:49:48

535554564B4D5657390 wrote:

What's a HOV lane? Carpool?

HOV = High Occupancy Vehicle aka Carpool

Title: Re: left-middle-right
Post by Big Nix on 05/03/09 at 05:13:35

Well I change my position in the lane I'm in quite a bit. I've been riding for well over a decade now but since I'm active duty military and I had to take the motorcycle saftey course before I could ride on post. And that opened my eyes quite a bit as far as saftey and shifting your lane position is a really good way to get all the cagers to see you better. If you just find one spot and stay in it you'll blend in but if you move around in your lane you can move out of a blind spot and into someone's vision. Just a little food for thought.