re: Motorcycle baws: why do y’all drive so reckless?

Lane splitting if you do it legally is great. I loved doing it in California. You can’t be going 25 over what the rest of traffic is doing, doing 5-10 difference in gridlock makes riding there so nice. It encourages more people to ride and more people to pay attention to riders.

Opening the door on a bike there or anywhere else is legal will get you hit with serious charges. So open at your own stupidity, I know one guy in Cali got hit with attempted murder charge for doing it admittedly on purpose on a dude in the BMWMOA a few years ago.

I ride like a moron sometimes, weaving in my own lane and doing other things to get me noticed as that douchebag on a motorcycle. I try not to have a large speed difference or do shite outrageously illegal or deadly, but I will do shite that make people notice me. It’s been effective for all the years I been riding from knee dragging like a moron in the mountains to my more tame BMW/dirt days now.

I was young and dumb once on a sport bike. Decided to sell the damn thing before I ever wrecked it but had it up to 165 a couple of times and raced a few cars in traffic. No clue how I managed to never crash. It’s damn near impossible to be discipline while riding a crotch rocket. They handle so smooth. You feel like you have all the control in the world.