My optimism has proven to be a personality defect from time to time.

Might want to pack a set of gears for when those explode.

My company is going with the future - fully electronic LED blinkers, which will preclude the need for fluid.

If you ride in it all the time, it gets utterly filthy. I have a preference for red/black/white gear and the white/red portions get really dirty, really quickly on my textile gear.

My wife, who’s also my riding partner of the last 40 years, thinks pink gear is kind of stupid, but she does want gear that doesn’t fit like a burlap bag. There’s a spot in the middle, which BMW seems to occupy along with a few others, that appears to be the sweet spot for her.

Which would be exactly 0. But sure, if it makes you feel better to comment about things you don’t know anything about, you go right ahead.

LOL. 45 years of riding, several hundred thousand miles of riding in any kind of conditions. Please. Do tell me about my shitty riding based on your utter paucity of insight.

How about the neutral switch that’s INSIDE the transmission?

Oh. Not a rider. You should stay in the car then. We’ll wave as we filter by.

Well, a casual investigation into the kind of accidents most encountered in stop and go traffic reveals that they’re when one vehicle hits another from behind. This has happened to me twice. Instead, when traffic stops or slows to a crawl, I’m up between the cars and out of the hit zone.

My 67 VW Bug had swing axles. Later models switched to CVs. Torchinsky will know what day that change occurred on.

Nicely done, sir.

Except that carbon monoxide has no smell. Also, consider sitting in a car with an intake leak as it’s idling. Exhaust fumes from the engine compartment are coming out of the roof. Consider that it’s the UK, so the heater is blowing full tilt, drawing those exhaust fumes in from the cowl vent below the windshield.

You’re missing out. It’s a show on television about car mechanics that actually has a mechanic explaining what he’s doing, why he’s doing it and giving us a good look at what he’s doing - all without the usual petulance and tantrums that some idiot TV programmer thinks us car people require to be entertained.

After years of lane splitting, I’m particularly tuned into when they lean forward to take a look out the side mirror or when they put their left hand on their turn signal stalk.

Cars won’t lane change into an adjacent car (at least not often), but when there’s a gap in traffic, it is, as you say, an idiot magnet.

Been riding 45 years. Keep up that attitude and it will serve you well, young rider.

Except that you don’t see the hundreds of thousands of other times people split successfully. Your perspective is like someone out here watching car accidents in snow and then claiming that nobody should ever drive in snow because YouTube is full of accidents with cars driving in snow.

It’s still on the motorcyclist to ensure the way forward is clear. The dash cam vehicle doesn’t make the go/no go call for the rider. That’s entirely on the rider.

Shitty lane split. The truck he was passing probably had 30mph on the adjacent traffic. I would have waited until traffic in both lanes was close to the same speed before I tried to get through. I mean, really, how much time are you going to save by making this passing maneuver?