SuzukiSavage.com - Lane Splitting

WebsterMark Serious Thumper Online SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 12847 Gender:	Re: Lane Splitting Reply #45 - 07/13/15 at 05:23:19 Kris01, i think its fair to say Mpesc has never driven on Briley Parkway.....
Back to top	IP Logged

verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28760 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Lane Splitting Reply #46 - 07/13/15 at 08:27:16 They look like they're enjoying themselves. Tell them to stop that, it should be work.
Back to top	Versey's Place Tech Section Index IP Logged

Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Lane Splitting Reply #47 - 07/13/15 at 18:44:52 That Nashville pic looks nothing like some of the traffic jams around here. It's not as bad as your other pic but close. It took me 2 hours to make a 20 minute trip once.
Back to top	There's no problem that a full tank of gas and a sunny day can't fix! 2008 S40, Rotella T 15W-40 w/ZDDP added, Dyna, 140/90-15, Battery Tender Jr., Seat lift, #52.5/150/3 washers, Raptor IP Logged

mpescatori

Serious Thumper

Offline

Romanum Thumperium
Cavalco, yeaaah !!!

Posts: 3547
Rome, Italy
Gender: male

Re: Lane Splitting
Reply #48 - 07/14/15 at 05:38:22

WebsterMark wrote on 07/13/15 at 05:23:19:

Kris01,

i think its fair to say Mpesc has never driven on Briley Parkway.....

Googlemaps

Paris

Search "A86 Duplex"
Googlemaps [Parc du chemin de l'ïle, 90 Avenue Hoche, 92000 Nanterre]

Imagine it's Sunday afternoon, you and your wife on your fully laden motorcycle returning from a week's Holiday.
Cool

You are on the "A14" and your navigator tells you "exit and take A86"...
...so you do...

and the A86 goes underground...
Huh

...and the navigator loses all hope and signal...
Tongue

...and the A86 splits "thisaway" and "thataway"
Undecided

So you embark on an underground odyssey with bumber to bumper traffic, underground tunnels barred to motorcycles (what am I doing there?)
Shocked

foul air at 40°C (well over 100°F) and the engine is overheating...
Shocked

...and they tell you you are riding France's longest underground tunnel !!! Shocked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4GTH1O4Mm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=e4GTH1O4Mm0#t=446

http://tollroadsnews.com/news/french-low-ceiling-tunnelways-of-duplex-a86-com...

We eventually made it through... engnie overheating and smelling like steel being torched... I was having a FIT !

Grin

PS Please tell me if you can see the videoclips... this is the best I can do at the moment...

Back to top

« Last Edit: 07/14/15 at 07:32:47 by mpescatori »

Maurizio Pescatori, Esq.
Gentleman Rider

Mikuni BST40, K&N filter, Stage2 cam, Verslagen tensioner, Sportster muff, 120 proof moonshine, Pirelli MT 66 tourers... and a chain conversion too !

IP Logged

HovisPresley Serious Thumper Offline Good Vibrations! Posts: 991 Midlands, UK Gender:	Re: Lane Splitting Reply #49 - 07/14/15 at 05:47:26 No videos
Back to top	'96 Bobbobbobber IP Logged

mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: Lane Splitting Reply #50 - 07/14/15 at 07:07:22 OK, I'll try again from home...
Back to top	Maurizio Pescatori, Esq. Gentleman Rider Mikuni BST40, K&N filter, Stage2 cam, Verslagen tensioner, Sportster muff, 120 proof moonshine, Pirelli MT 66 tourers... and a chain conversion too ! IP Logged

mpescatori

Serious Thumper

Offline

Romanum Thumperium
Cavalco, yeaaah !!!

Posts: 3547
Rome, Italy
Gender: male

Re: Lane Splitting
Reply #51 - 07/14/15 at 07:25:20

In the meantime... enjoy some twisty Italian mountain highway.

Florence to Bologna, speed limit is 130Km/h or limited to 110 Km/h in the more twisty bits (80 and 70mph respectively)

Parma to La Spezia, literally, my way home from when I studied at the Military Academy Cool

Videos are slightly accellerated, but only just so... Wink

Imagine yourselves riding a crotch rocket... or a nice Hemi ... enjoy Cool

Back to top

Maurizio Pescatori, Esq.
Gentleman Rider

Mikuni BST40, K&N filter, Stage2 cam, Verslagen tensioner, Sportster muff, 120 proof moonshine, Pirelli MT 66 tourers... and a chain conversion too !

IP Logged

Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28375 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Lane Splitting Reply #52 - 07/14/15 at 07:41:12 That long tunnel would make me claustrophobic... Buuuuuhhhhhhh!... ...
Back to top	Ludicrous Speed !... ... ... IP Logged

WebsterMark

Serious Thumper

Online

SuzukiSavage.com
Rocks!

Posts: 12847

Gender: male

Re: Lane Splitting
Reply #53 - 07/14/15 at 08:41:52

Is that your NC700 Mpes?

There is a brand new one at the Honda dealer that's never sold; 3 years now. A slightly used one farkled to the max for under 6k and only couple thousand miles. This model never took off in the states and they pulled it after a couple years. I saw quite a few when I was in Sweden last years. what's the deal? I thought they were decent bikes. I never road one but I thought the storage going from one side to the other, all the way through the saddlebags, was a great idea.

Back to top

IP Logged

Art Webb

Serious Thumper

Offline

SuzukiSavage.com
Rocks!

Posts: 3007
columbus, Texas
Gender: male

Re: Lane Splitting
Reply #54 - 07/14/15 at 08:56:06

If traffic is stopped I will split........at about 15mph I've had folks toss a door at me, and I can stop from 15 pretty darn quick
I will split until traffic starts moving, and join the regular traffic lane, I will not blow between two cars doing 60 while I'm doing 80
what 'entitles me' to do this? Nothing,
If the guys in the cars around me that are stuck got on a bike and took the risks I take, they could split too
They choose a safer, more comfortable, more easily entrapped vehicle that also consumes more resources than mine, and takes more space If anything they are the 'entitled' ones, who are actually causing the problem
If all of them (who are in their cars alone, at least) got on motorcycles, traffic would be much less congested
I'm actually doing them a favor, by not contributing to the jam
In no way shape or form am I slowing them down or getting in their way, or inconveniencing them
They inconvenience themselves, by choosing to operate easily trapped vehicles on packed roads
The only reason they're mad is because they're jealous
jealous of a guy taking more risk to enjoy more freedom
playing it safe and then railing at someone who is better off because he takes more chances is the definition of entitled thinking

Back to top

IP Logged

Art Webb

Serious Thumper

Offline

SuzukiSavage.com
Rocks!

Posts: 3007
columbus, Texas
Gender: male

Re: Lane Splitting
Reply #55 - 07/14/15 at 09:00:33

WebsterMark wrote on 07/14/15 at 08:41:52:

Is that your NC700 Mpes?

There is a brand new one at the Honda dealer that's never sold; 3 years now. A slightly used one farkled to the max for under 6k and only couple thousand miles. This model never took off in the states and they pulled it after a couple years. I saw quite a few when I was in Sweden last years. what's the deal? I thought they were decent bikes. I never road one but I thought the storage going from one side to the other, all the way through the saddlebags, was a great idea.

Folks in this country mostly appreciate style over substance, look how the 'standard' has been mostly replaced by cruisers / sportbikes
cruises are pretty, sport bikes are fast (and pretty) but a Standard is more all around useful than either
Most folks here see the NC700 as a glorified scooter, so they don't wanna be seen on one

Back to top

IP Logged