I will leave this here...

I commute 186 miles a day by motorcycle, including very heavy traffic in the Silicon Valley. The ONLY reason I do it is because I can use the carpool lane and split lanes, my commute by MC is on average 45 minutes faster each way vs in a car. I generally stick to roughly the CHP guidelines, but will split for short…

As a guy who commutes 186 miles a day from California's Central Valley to the Silicon Valley on a 650 V-Strom year round (rain or shine), I see a pretty decent cross section of motorcycle riders. In the spring and summer the Harleys and Squids come out, all "sun's out guns out" doing their damnedest to look cool. …