Hogs and filtering

[peasea]

I'm with what they said but like someone else too bout forward controls being good gauge, Knocked a few wing mirrors on cars.

What the fucks filtering?

Going through slow moving traffic at a greater speed that the traffic is travelling. You know, lane splitting and all that, carving it up, getting a life etc. It's the sort of bullshit you get in a big city, just one the thousands of reasons to get away (and stay away) from such cities.

Can't wait.

[FFS]

With regard to the stability at low speeds.. I ride two bikes, one a vtx1300 and a hyosung GT650R. The VTX1300 is incredibly stable at low speeds. It's all down to the centre of gravity I guess. The vtx has a low seat, long wheel base so is naturally stable at low speed.

[xwhatsit]

Looking at cruisers, they aren't ridiculously wide. In fact I think a CB750 with the early wide bars on it would be just as wide. Most cruiser bars just go up more than anything else, not super wide. After riding a couple, one 250cc and one 1300cc, I'd have to say that they're both very easy at low speeds, regardless of weight.

My bike is a lane-splitters dream, although I don't utilise its abilities that much. Narrow single-cylinder engine, skinny tank and seat, short, angled clip-ons, and a single bar-end mirror that can be folded back inboard of the bars. If GSXR riders are pissy at cruiser riders holding them up in lane-splitting situations because they're too wide, then I'm pissy at GSXR riders who are too fat to get through those gaps

I'm not a big fan of the cruiser excess aesthetic, but I believe that the ideal commuting bike is a mid-weight cruiser. Comfortable at traffic speeds (don't need the wind to take the weight off your wrists); low to the ground, making starting and stopping very comfortable; probably more visible in traffic (provided you have a decent sized headlight); and a nice tractable V-twin for commuting bliss. About the only problem is you sit very low, which nullifies the advantage bikes have to look ahead of traffic.

[Waylander]

Do it on the Virago, do it on the VMax. Only once did I run out of room and all that happened there was the corner of the flatbed truck decided to tap my clutch lever.

Filtering/lane splitting cuts a 40min trip home from work down to 13.

[scumdog]

Going through slow moving traffic at a greater speed that the traffic is travelling. You know, lane splitting and all that, carving it up, getting a life etc. It's the sort of bullshit you get in a big city, just one the thousands of reasons to get away (and stay away) from such cities.

Can't wait.

Living in the Riviera of the South I've never NEEDED to filter/lane-split, gave a shot a couple of times....not keen on it.

For a start I found it a tad dodgy when the 'other' lane is the traffic going the other way.

I guess you really have to be on a road with two lanes going the same way to do it properly and (sort-of) safely???

[Griff]

If GSXR riders are pissy at cruiser riders holding them up in lane-splitting situations because they're too wide, then I'm pissy at GSXR riders who are too fat to get through those gaps.

I'm not in the slightest pissy at Cruisers whilst filtering.
Let the car drivers fight it out and cut each other up.

I will sit back a decent distance and follow for a while, if I still need to get past and the guy doesn't catch on that i'm there, then I can use another lane. If they pull over, I'll wave.

After saying that, if I hold anyone up, then i'll pull over and let them go.
Its easier on the mind, rather than either
Checking if they are going to try and double-up on a gap or upping my speed to a dangerous level.

[peasea]

Living in the Riviera of the South I've never NEEDED to filter/lane-split, gave a shot a couple of times....not keen on it...

Ahhh, the joys of the Mainland.
Counting down...........

[McJim]

Ahhh, the joys of the Mainland.
Counting down...........

Are you moving south too?

[PuppetMaster]

For a start I found it a tad dodgy when the 'other' lane is the traffic going the other way. I guess you really have to be on a road with two lanes going the same way to do it properly and (sort-of) safely???

M8. Thats not lane splitting, thats passing.

[peasea]

Are you moving south too?

Hell yeah, had a gutsful of this shit-hole.
Sunny Richmond ............... yay

[McJim]

Hell yeah, had a gutsful of this shit-hole.
Sunny Richmond ............... yay

Mmmm just outside Nelson. I might be in Invercargill by Christmas. Sent a couple of cvs to Nelson too mind but no bites there.

[mstriumph]

Looking at cruisers, they aren't ridiculously wide. In fact I think a CB750 with the early wide bars on it would be just as wide. Most cruiser bars just go up more than anything else, not super wide. After riding a couple, one 250cc and one 1300cc, I'd have to say that they're both very easy at low speeds, regardless of weight..............

yea
reading this thread it does occur to me that there are as many variations of opinion about splitting and filtering among cruiser riders as there are among sprotsbike riders ................. mebbe it isn't about the bike - mebbe it's about the rider?

[The Stranger:Me]

Q2. Do you find that your bars are too wide to go for the small gaps?
Q3. Doesn't sitting low (feet first), give you less of a view of traffic?
Q4. Do you get low speed, stability issues?
Q5. Do you worry about avoiding cars and still maintaining ground clearance?

Q2 Wider bars = better control/more precise positioning.

Q3 Sitting low, but of course with your head up offers better visibility than a sport bike.

Q4 Cruisers, having a lower centre of gravity, are generally more stable than a sprot bike at low speed.

Q5 How the hell do you lane split?

[peasea]

Mmmm just outside Nelson. I might be in Invercargill by Christmas. Sent a couple of cvs to Nelson too mind but no bites there.

I just got a job there and they haven't even met me, took the word of my current employer. In fact they had a fit when they heard what I was on but still hired me.

[peasea]

yea
reading this thread it does occur to me that there are as many variations of opinion about splitting and filtering among cruiser riders as there are among sprotsbike riders ................. mebbe it isn't about the bike - mebbe it's about the rider?

Or the rider knowing his/her machine and capabilities.
Wouldn't it be cool if every biker had that knowledge?