Interesting lanesplitting video

[superjackal]

it's definitely a confidence thing, I'm also scared I'll get a bit of target fixation. I'll have to start giving it a go soon, I find bumper to bumper traffic and continuously stopping and going for so bloody long very stressful and tiring.

Someone wrote somewhere else that bikes aren’t made for stop/go traffic. My gn’s kinda jerky at low speed. I don’t (think I) have any overheating problems but I don’t want to try my luck. I make the odd minor mistake here and there, but that’s what learning’s all about and why I have a cheap first bike.

Reading the posts has been helpful and also unhelpful. Unhelpful in that I find myself questioning what I’m doing because of all the different advice received. Helpful in that I’ve calmed down and learned to “go with the flow” more. I try not to do anything that will aggravate a cager.

I think, very important, is a friendly wave to anyone who is courteous to bikers in traffic.

[bosslady]

Someone wrote somewhere else that bikes aren’t made for stop/go traffic. My gn’s kinda jerky at low speed. I don’t (think I) have any overheating problems but I don’t want to try my luck. I make the odd minor mistake here and there, but that’s what learning’s all about and why I have a cheap first bike.

Reading the posts has been helpful and also unhelpful. Unhelpful in that I find myself questioning what I’m doing because of all the different advice received. Helpful in that I’ve calmed down and learned to “go with the flow” more. I try not to do anything that will aggravate a cager.

I think, very important, is a friendly wave to anyone who is courteous to bikers in traffic.

they probably aren't, no. I hear you about slow speed, but I think it's me not the bike, it's so effing hard going at slow speed because it's slower than walking pace sometimes I'm wobbly as fuck! really stressful.

as for a friendly wave, I also find taking my hand off the bar hard haha

[superjackal]

I watched the lane-splitting video last night and I thought it was excellent. Cleared up a lot of things for me and gave an interesting perspective on the subject. Well worth the watch for newbies like myself.