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While someone not making eye contact can obviously be stressful, I wouldn’t break my path, especially not into a turn lane. In the event that she looks your way, it’s important that she understands what you’re planning to do, which is to go straight. I might (well, definitely) make sure that my lane position within my lane is good, depending on the other things going on around me.

Usually if someone isn’t looking my way, I give my engine a quick rev (clutch in, rev, then back to normal riding) and that almost always gets their attention.

When I’m driving, I make an effort for people to see me looking both ways. Even if I look right and see a long line of cars, so there’s no need for me to look back that way for a while, I glance right every so often just to make people more comfortable…it’s what I would want people to do for me. But I can’t really fault someone for not looking, as long as they don’t move without looking.

What gets me is when they’re edging forward at a stop sign without looking. Whether or not they plan to pull out, they need to either sit still, or make sure they look. That usually gets a quick honk from me.

With the kid in the street, that happens. Sounds like you handled it well.

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If I were to lane split to get to the front of a light, I would make sure to accelerate quickly. Just following the logic of “if you’re not in a hurry, why do it?” And it would be annoying to the car in front.

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Ha, good idea. Or even just rev it, get him ready to go, and then just slowly pull away from the line, nice and relaxed while he takes off down the road.

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As Elias said, it’s unlikely that they understand the difference between your Ninja 250 and another guy’s Hayabusa 1300. I guarantee that my Ninja 650 could beat almost any car that I come across, but I have no need to prove that.

One guy tried to race me, and I just accelerated my normal speed while he took off. About a mile down the road, we both pulled into a gas station. I pumped my 3.5 gallons, paid for it and left while he was still pumping his probably 14 gallons. I waved goodbye as I left and that was satisfying enough.

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I did some browsing a little while back, and I found a company called Hoyt Technologies. Although it’s pretty expensive, they have some cameras that actually look like they mount in an acceptable way. Some of the other options would increase wind resistance so much that I wouldn’t even use it. One thing about the Hoyt company is that they sell separate cameras and recorders, so you would need both.

Also, I’ve watched a fair number of videos of a guy who does touring whose website is atlasrider.com (and his youtube account is Atlas Rider). He has one video where he shows his setup, and he basically just puts a camera inside his visor. I wouldn’t be comfortable riding like that, but he is and you might be also.

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I once bought a Honda certified used car, and the battery died 4 months later (not that it needed to be jumped, but the battery was dead – couldn’t be charged again). Although warranty doesn’t cover a battery, I went in with the argument that no proper battery dies in 4 months. I suspect that a similar argument could be used for the clutch. It would be tough to kill a clutch in 1300 miles.

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I’m a chemist. I’m currently doing research at a hospital, but I’ve been working my way into the field of forensics. Once people start hiring again, I’m looking to make the move.

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He couldn’t ride as a passenger?

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I don’t know if there are enough of us, but it would be cool to have a little section on the forum for motorcycles and gear for sale. I think a policy of not selling helmets would be good in case they’ve been damaged, but maybe that should just be a personal choice.

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I had good luck at the dealership where I bought my bike. My first time in, I kind of got paired up with one salesman and only really worked with him. So if I came in and told him that I was just browsing, then I wasn’t bothered for the rest of my time there.

For my negotiation, I had better luck in getting them to give me some amount of free stuff (in the form of a gift certificate) from their parts department. I already had a fair amount of gear, but I needed some pants, frame sliders, swing arm spools, a cover for the bike, a tank bag. I also put the entire thing on my credit card (to be paid off immediately, so I got a rebate from that). So I got a pretty good deal in the end, even though I technically paid sticker price for the bike.

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If you’re going to ride with headphones, just be safe about it. Personally my bigger concern is not hearing something that I need to, not getting a ticket. If you run the cord inside your jacket and into the helmet, there’s no way your average cop is going to notice it. Just make sure it’s not too loud, and more importantly, that you’re not fiddling with your iPod while you should be paying attention to the road.

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In the first video, after he saves it, he hangs his head. He’s either upset that he lost some time or he’s thanking god that he didn’t go flying. I suspect it’s the latter.

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I have the Tour Master Solution WP boots. I’ll wear them all day without a problem, and I’m pretty secure in the protection that they would give in a crash.

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What I meant about the idea that not everyone’s account can cash it is that I could have $10 in my bank account, but I could still write you a check for $4,000. And by the time your bank bounces it, a couple days later, I could be long gone with your bike. I definitely wouldn’t accept a personal check if I were selling a bike. It would have to be cash or cashier’s check.

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Yeah, but none of my comments are long enough to merit whole reviews. I don’t know how people have so much to say about a specific item that they can write paragraphs upon paragraphs about one thing.

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