right behaviour during heavy traffic

[Waylander]

Nah, they see you coming in their rear vision mirror, wind down the drivers side window, take a huge breath, and let you have it when you go past...jerks! "Off with their heads I say!"

That's when you have something you can throw at them as you go by. They open thier mouths to shout and get a mouthfull of something nasty and smelly. Old fish works but if you have a cat...

[Lou Girardin]

Well, I have read all the previous talk and no one has picked up on the obvious.

There is a major safety issue when you leave the lights first. And it is not car doors.

Just beware of all the red light runners.

Don't want anyone to get hurt.

Safe riding

Oh and by the way, I lane split and light split.

Opening your eyes and looking will negate this danger.

[Lou Girardin]

Also should be warned about Taxis. Filterd up to the lights next to one and the guy started yelling at me and shit. I ignored him and he tried reaching out his window to grab at me. Looked at him and he flipped me off then tried to run me off the road when the lights turned.

One of the benefits of a flip front helmet is that you can open it and lob a greenie in their window.

[Coldkiwi]

I'd say that an experienced rider should have the common sense to check both ways for red light runners, etc, when taking off at the lights. But in saying that, often our concentration is fixed on the vehicles we are 'between' at the lights and what they are going to do?

well, unless its a VERY tricked out rocket sled it should pretty much be relatively motionless by the time you start moving

(unless a stall occurs... which is just plain and simple ' i want to curl up and die' territory)