Oopsie.........

[ceemes]

Oopsie, got pulled over and dressed down by a cop yesterday, my bad.

I was out riding or rather attempting to ride yesterday and it was baking hot in my leathers. Got stuck in stop and go while traffic trying to get from Coquitlam to Tsawwassen and I was being a good boy. No lane splitting, no riding down the break down lane, patiently waiting my turn to get off of the Lougheed Highway and onto Highway 1 and the Port Mann to Surrey. Took a good 45 minutes to go from Mary Hill By-Pass and Lougheed to the on ramp of Highway One. All the while dumb arsed cagers were dodging in and out trying to gain position, trying to drive in my lane, not paying attention to what they were doing, yakking on their mobile....well you all know the story.

Anyways, got to Highway 99 and finally got some speed up going down the HOV lane..............nice......the new jacket has perforations (as well as armour) and the Sabre's engine and I started to cool down. Then came the Highway 17 off ramp and the end of the HOV lane....and bugger.......its clogged with cages and not moving. At the time, I had met up with a Valk rider and we looked at each other, pointed down the hard shoulder and said "Shall we?" And we did...................................................











Only to be pulled over by a plain clothed member of the Queen's Cowboys (RCMP) who had already pulled over two other riders for doing the same thing..........next thing you know there are three uniformed members there as well looking like they are getting ready to have a ticket writing party, and I have to admit, it was a fair cop, after all what we did was illegal.

Anyways, the plain is dressing us down, asking why we do such things, how we give bikers a bad name, etc etc....I look at the others and yup, not one squid among us, all dressed in full gear, none younger then mid 30's and think to myself, "Come on, give me my ticket and let me go please."

Long story short, after brow beating us little misbehaving kiddies (which we were ) we were let go without being given a ticket.

[dr_bar]

I would have given you a ticket for the 5 O'clock shadow... You would have deserved it too!

[ceemes]

I would have given you a ticket for the 5 O'clock shadow... You would have deserved it too!

At least I have the common decency to hide my ugly mug behind my beard, you on the other hand are a heartless basstard who takes great pleasure in foisting your naked ugly face on the public at large.

[Tennif Shoe]

i will take a lecture over a ticket anyday "your pipes are too loud. don't you know they only get you noticed" while i am thinking to myself that's the point!

[ceemes]

i will take a lecture over a ticket anyday "your pipes are too loud. don't you know they only get you noticed" while i am thinking to myself that's the point!

Funny thing was, he was going on about a woman who recently died in and accident a few days ago and took some others with her. Being a smart arsed I piped up "Oh, you mean the 86 year old Grannie who got confused and drove down an exit ramp and speed up the freeway the wrong way before getting involved with a head on crash?" It sort of took the wind out of his sails.

Funny thing is, in many part of the world and even in the US, lane filtering by motorcycles is perfectly legal and does seem to reduce the number of motorcycle accidents, if done in a sane and safe manner. In the UK I am told you can filter through stall traffic as long as it is safe and you do no more then 20 MPH. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. After all bikes are a lot smaller then most cages, especially those god awful SUV's and mini-vans. I figure that by filtering in a safe manner, bikers would actually help the flow of traffic by freeing up spots for cages.

As it was, while stalled on the Lougheed, I had one twit try to share my lane, kicked in his right front fender, another tried to bully his way into my lane coz it was moving and his wasn't, and another stopped just inches from my rear tyre in a panic, I saw that twine was talking on his bloody mobile at the time. And the vast majority of those cages only had one person in them, with far too many too busy chatting on their mobiles or texting or sucking back coffee to pay proper attention to what the hell they are doing.

Perhaps it's time to see if BCCOM can get lane filtering for motorcycles legal in BC, after all they got us the right to use the HOV lanes, and first loading on the Ferry's as well as being allowed to park two or more bikes in one city street parking slot.

[motokid]

It's true that in most European countries, line sharing is a habit (legal or not), but keep in mind that most euro bikes are not 1200+ cc Harleys, but rather something along CBR 125 line and scooters.

Introducing such legislature here would require more than just informing bikers they can do that. After all, both in my car and on a bike, I consider my line being only my. That means in a stop and go traffic, I go left and right, just to see what's going on ahead. On a bike, I change position within my line all the time without thinking that somebody else might have legal right to come from behind. Well, me, you could convince and educate. How about that infamous cell phone speaking, Escalade driving soccer mom?

[Nalian]

Only legal in a very few set of states in the US unfortunately, and really unfortunately is that mine is not one of them. I really wish that there were more motorcyclists here that could get the law changed, but the bill keeps dying unfortunately.

[mazer]

In California it is legal to lane split or filter, but not on the hard shoulder. You must split the lane, not pass on the right of the far left lane - that is a no-no on any bike.

[NYGiantsGuy]

My favorite part is the (unsurprising) apathy and ignorance of the automobilers....motorcycle safety and awareness should be part of everybody's driving education, not just the two wheelers.

[dr_bar]

I've always said that every newly licenced driver should spend a day on the back of a bike and a day in the jump seat of a tractor trailer... Both seats are very educational...