New TX m/c law

[mro]

Lake County

on the bridge eh, in 89' (would have been scary)

Life in general or on the road hasn't gone insane yet in the smaller towns.

Daily I see people run red lights and I mean their doing it on purpose because they don't want to wait. Right turn on red light is legal after you stop, but a lot don't even slow down now. Relatively new fad on 880 I've seen is people driving down the shoulder when traffic is stopped! Road rage is alive and well. Some incidents I've seen would have been funny if the participants weren’t sitting in 4 to 6000 pound weapons.

Just hope things work out in the next couple years so I can get outa here. Would miss the weather though.


mro

[Dragonrider]

Peanut M&M's work as well as the ball bearings...they make a great loud crunching sound when they hit, but don't actually break anything (no damage, no suit).

[xs650mike]

Originally posted by xj11john
Correct me if I'm wrong.

I dont mean to sound naive, but by "lane splitting" do you mean

going between the traffic on the center line?? Or is it the

shoulder? or either?

Neither. We're talking multi-lane roads and freeways between lanes of traffic going in the same direction as the bike. Riding between opposing lanes of traffic is not only extremely dangerous but can get you ticketed too. Technically in California you are not to ride actually on the painted lines but are "sharing" the lane with the other vehicles. See my previous post in which I give the "guidelines" for lane splitting or rather "lane sharing" as given me by a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer. It's about 12 or 13 posts back in reply to Diver Ray's post about "...one good law in California...". In California you can and will be ticketed for riding on the shoulder or center median, that is strictly reserved for police and emergency vehicles or emergency parking. Police seem to get really annoyed if you ride on the shoulder, one of my friends was not only ticketed but had to listen to a long lecture by a really pissed-off CHP.

[xs650mike]

Originally posted by Dragonrider
Peanut M&M's work as well as the ball bearings...they make a great loud crunching sound when they hit, but don't actually break anything (no damage, no suit).

In the old days we carried old spark plugs in our pockets.

[mro]

In the old days we carried old spark plugs in our pockets.

Have thought about getting a small squirt gun and filling it with bright red colored water for the turkeys that like to ride my a!#. But if their that close I decided maybe not, their thinking processes are so screwed up already that I'm sure they wouldn't find it funny.



mro

[xs650mike]

How about filling it with something really disgusting like baby poop yellow? Make 'em think they're scaring the s**t out of you.

[mro]

something really disgusting like baby poop yellow

aaah yes,

cage repellant



mro

[Trikerneil]

Lane splitting by bikes is a way of life(?) over here, sometimes at 90MPH+ !! You soon learn to break the habit on a Trike though

[xs650mike]

Re: something really disgusting like baby poop yellow

Originally posted by mro
aaah yes,

cage repellant



mro

The nice thing about an old spark plug is "plausible deniability"...might just be road debris kicked up by wheels of passing traffic..."Honest officer, I would never do anything like that, even though that (insert epithet of choice) almost killed me!"