twowheelnut
R.I.P. Our Motorcycling Friend
So I got the front end back on last night and took the scoot to the office today - a late Ride To Work Day, for me. Anyway, I knocked off about 4:00 pm and took the week's deposits to the bank for the wifey and my bidnesses. I'm right off the 101 so I decided to pop on and shoot up the highway, hit the bank and then put some test miles on the new fork springs.
As usual for this time of year, Friday afternoons bring a whack of traffic through town and the highway was clogged. Thankfully, lane sharing is OK in California and guess what I was doing? I'm cutting my way through traffic and some of the cages will edge over to give you room and some don't. I'm doing between 10 and 20 mph over the cages crawl when I noticed almost every car edging over and giving me room! How cool is this? I feel like a regular friggin' Moses parting the Red Sea!
Well, traffic finally cleared and I assumed my place in the fast lane when I saw the reason for the Moses Effect in my mirrors.... Whoop, whoop, whoooop! Shit! Johnny Law had snuck up behind me on his BMW. I never saw him and I'm pretty damn sure I checked my mirrors at least 6 or 7 times during this 5 mile ride.
I pulled over to the shoulder, dropped the side stand, shut her down, pulled my wallet and waited for the obligatory bitch slap from Poncherello. Turns out he's a pretty nice guy, doesn't ask me for my papers and just wants me to know that I should keep my speed down to at most 10 mph over the cagers when lane sharing. Now that's what I call good karma, man. You dig? However, I think I've used my get outta jail free card and will mellow out for a while...
Thanks, Ponch. If I ever meet you at Winchell’s, the donuts and coffee are on me!
As usual for this time of year, Friday afternoons bring a whack of traffic through town and the highway was clogged. Thankfully, lane sharing is OK in California and guess what I was doing? I'm cutting my way through traffic and some of the cages will edge over to give you room and some don't. I'm doing between 10 and 20 mph over the cages crawl when I noticed almost every car edging over and giving me room! How cool is this? I feel like a regular friggin' Moses parting the Red Sea!
Well, traffic finally cleared and I assumed my place in the fast lane when I saw the reason for the Moses Effect in my mirrors.... Whoop, whoop, whoooop! Shit! Johnny Law had snuck up behind me on his BMW. I never saw him and I'm pretty damn sure I checked my mirrors at least 6 or 7 times during this 5 mile ride.
I pulled over to the shoulder, dropped the side stand, shut her down, pulled my wallet and waited for the obligatory bitch slap from Poncherello. Turns out he's a pretty nice guy, doesn't ask me for my papers and just wants me to know that I should keep my speed down to at most 10 mph over the cagers when lane sharing. Now that's what I call good karma, man. You dig? However, I think I've used my get outta jail free card and will mellow out for a while...
Thanks, Ponch. If I ever meet you at Winchell’s, the donuts and coffee are on me!
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