James Burleigh
Well-known member
I guess when you decide to go riding with a trike, you don't get to whip off your Clark Kent glasses and invoke your super motorcycle traffic-leaping powers.
Heading home north on US 101 Sunday (yesterday) afternoon, traffic was flowing pretty well until I came over the hill from the Monterey exit heading toward Salinas (Steinbeck country). Suddenly the traffic slowed, so I began to filter. Then I came across aherd group of Harley riders enjoying the beautiful riding weather. 'Ceptin' they had a trike with them, so they could not (or would not) filter (I believe they had Kali plates).
One of my prime directives about riding is "First--do no harm to other motorcyclists." As a result, unlike that SOB on the vintage BMW coming into Ventura on the freeway yesterday who passed me outta nowhere in my lane at 60 MPH!
, I'm very careful about interacting with other riders on California streets and highways.
Of course the Harleys were locked into their standard 2x2 staggered riding formation. I wasn't comfortable going to the right of the bike in front of me: it was too tight. And I would not go to the right over the white fogline because that would violate "Hans's Principle of Motorcycle Advantage."
So I opted to enter their formation. I didn't want to be unsafe, disrespectful, or rude, so I went very slow and used lots of head checking and turn signal, etc. I feel like I did it safely and respectfully. I hope they didn't think I was a dick.... Those poor folks had about 5 miles of that sh*t ahead of them, on a fairly warm day.
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Passing through a group of Harleys
Heading home north on US 101 Sunday (yesterday) afternoon, traffic was flowing pretty well until I came over the hill from the Monterey exit heading toward Salinas (Steinbeck country). Suddenly the traffic slowed, so I began to filter. Then I came across a
One of my prime directives about riding is "First--do no harm to other motorcyclists." As a result, unlike that SOB on the vintage BMW coming into Ventura on the freeway yesterday who passed me outta nowhere in my lane at 60 MPH!
Of course the Harleys were locked into their standard 2x2 staggered riding formation. I wasn't comfortable going to the right of the bike in front of me: it was too tight. And I would not go to the right over the white fogline because that would violate "Hans's Principle of Motorcycle Advantage."
So I opted to enter their formation. I didn't want to be unsafe, disrespectful, or rude, so I went very slow and used lots of head checking and turn signal, etc. I feel like I did it safely and respectfully. I hope they didn't think I was a dick.... Those poor folks had about 5 miles of that sh*t ahead of them, on a fairly warm day.
Video
47):Passing through a group of Harleys
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