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Maybe real narrow handlebars would increase the odds of surviving? So narrow, you need a video camera set up to get a rear view. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Ryk, due to the limited space available in order to expand and add more lanes to many of the freeways located in SoCal and because of the already developed land adjacent to the existing freeways, I've found the freeway lanes there have narrower lanes than I've found in many other parts of this country and due the practice of adding a new lane by making the existing lanes narrower, and YET even with the relatively wide handlebars we have on our Bonnie Americas, I found there still to be sufficient room to ride between the cars when I lived in that overcrowded mess of a city.(and once again, hence my move to the small and picturesque town of Sedona AZ after my retirement...too many people there in SoCal now days...and of ALL sorts!)
And regarding the issue of "Safety", one more thing I'd like to bring up here(and yes, I know I'm now probably beating the proverbial deceased equine by this time) is to once again press the point of how much safer motorcycle riding is when we motorcyclists are allowed to roll up between and to the front of a line-up of cars sitting at a stoplight, and then as I mentioned earlier when that light changes to green, the motorcyclist can accelerate way ahead of those cars and thus leaving all those cagers far behind us, and NOT among us in close proximity.
(...seems you guys are forgetting about THAT here, 'cause I haven't read any replies to THAT since the last time I mentioned it in this here thread!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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