It’s dangerous, yes, but not in the way you’re making it out to be.

That must have looked like the strangest police parade ever

BRB, playing GTA to get this out of my system.

I really want to have an AMC AMX painted blue with a union flag on top called the General Sherman just so I can tour the south and do burnouts in front of every confederate memorial I run across. I’m kind of a lowbrow asshole though, so ideas like that really appeal to me.

Sure, it can eat an engine block. But what about hard plastic clamshell packaging? There’s the death match that I’d pay to see.

Doug, people don’t hate the Hummer. The H1 represents so much to Americans, to dreamers, to anyone who had a good and imaginative childhood.

Another factor, I think, is that the H2 made them so common that people have just gotten used to it. Of course, to you and me, it isn’t the same — but most people see the H2’s styling and the H1’s styling as very similar, and they’ve learned to tune it out.

I had a few friends who rode and did my homework. Also, the MSP is free in PA so “all your gear all the time” gets beat into you pretty fast. My big screw up was getting a used Gixxer as a first bike. Not as horrible a mistake as some claim but I also can now rebuild that bike in about fifteen minutes.

My approach is to assume that nobody can see me, and if they do happen to see me I assume they’re actively trying to kill me. It’ll work until it doesn't.

Are you going to sit there with a straight face and say that the environmentally impact of cars moving over occasionally is more than hundreds of motorcycles idling plus the increases in traffic delays? You cannot possibly believe that.

As a rider I see no value to this law. Sure lane splitting isn’t officially legal but neither is making a grilled cheese sandwich or calling your mom to tell her you love her.

Well, speed limits aren’t really enforced against bikes either at least around here, but they are still an indication of what is generally safe. I’m more worried about people acting stupid on their bikes and hurting people other than themselves (and this from someone who has been in a terrible crash on his bike).

It’s a slippery slope. First motorcyclists want to split lanes, then cars want to do it too. After a few years we’ve got semis splitting lanes and that’s how the apocalypse starts.

Oh no argument from me on that one. The specific circumstance I’m thinking of was when I was traveling in the the center lane of 3, was signaling to go go into the far left lane to pass, and a bike came across all lanes of traffic from the far right into the far left. He did it behind a car (cubevan) that was behind…

As a former rider I would seriously consider an electric motorcycle if the price points were the same. It would be a great (and fun) summer commute vehicle. One thing that would worry me though is how quiet it would be. With the massive blind spots on my coupe, loud pipes have alerted me to the presence of my two…

Which brings me to my biggest driver pet peeve: mirror adjustment. Next time you’re on the road, look at the drivers in front of you. You will be able to see the eyes or face of very, very few of them...meaning that their mirrors are a total afterthought, not properly adjusted and never, ever used.

That’s because high beams before passing in Germany mean “Achtung mein Herr, zere’s a fast-moving car approaching you from behind!” when in America it’s taken to mean “Look at this asshole!”

I agree... i don’t ride, but I don’t want to accidentally hit someone on a bike because I didn’t see them well enough.

Le sigh. This is (one of) the bad part of living in Southern Florida. If you want to go on a road trip outside the state, you have to put up with 6 hours of extreme boredom sprinkled with bits of sheer terror from the non-driving assholes behind the wheel here.

I never pedalled home. How many times did you let your car run out of gas? I’d guess never. I had the same with my Puch.