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I have found that, with loud pipes and full beam, the cars tend to part like the Red Sea before the Israelites.

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Yeah, until some Philistine decides to change lanes to gain a few inches!

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I like to lane split at speed with loud pipes.

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Nice to see you're still tryin' to "push buttons" around here, Jim!

(...was startin' to dread the thought that you had mellowed after all these years!)

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Mellow? Not till I'm pushing daises.

So when are you flying standby again to Dahlonega? Hear there is a rally this May.

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Ya know Jim, that thought HAS crossed my mind a couple of times since the beginning of this year, but unfortunately once again this year other plans for my springtime ventures have come about.

And so now at this point I'm just hoping that Chy and Di will continue their gracious hosting of this little shindig for at least another year, and so that there will still be a chance to once again see all you guys in 2019.

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(especially pretty young women in new cars

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Hey there...lets not get all bogged down with stereotypes...I've seen just as many clueless ugly one too.

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(especially pretty young women in new cars

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Hey there...lets not get all bogged down with stereotypes...I've seen just as many clueless ugly one too.

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Nope, I'm sticking to my assertion. The single best word to describe them is "entitled".

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I travelled from Kent UK to Devon twice in the last two weeks. There's a real bottleneck at Stonehenge...no filtering means hours extra on the road.
Filtering through the traffic is a hoot.

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"A HOOT"???!!!

Dude, I thought you were a Limey, NOT a Minnesotan!!!

(...guess they use that term over there on that island of superfluous-u users of yours TOO, eh Alan ol' boy?!)

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Yes, a Hoot. My friend Clive has developed a very effective technique( tekneek, Dwight?).
He approaches a queue at speed wobbling mightily as he goes.
Somehow drivers manage to move apart for him...some even pull over and switch off their engines.I merely follow in his wake giving a courteous ( kurtiuz, Dwight?) wave of thanks.

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So, your friend "Clive" ya say?! Yep, sounds about right!

Well, IF "Clive" IS "filtering" as you guys call it over there, AND if he's doin' it IN that manner(at higher speeds then what would be prudent), then "Clive" sounds a lot like some of the young sportbike squids who'd come up behind me while I was lane-splitting(as WE call it) in California, and who'd I hear blip their throttle in an apparent attempt to say, "Hey dude, move over so I can get through here!", and who after I'd find a little space to move between two cars to do just that, would then pass me goin' WAY too damn fast between the cars.

And who as I'd see 'em go off in the distance, I'd say to myself somethin' like, "Enjoy your short time on earth, you dumb-ass kid".

(..SEE, and as I'm sure YOU know while you're lane-splitting, ahem, "filtering" over there Alan ol' boy, there IS a right way AND a wrong way to do this...but as I've said MANY a freakin' time around here before, you can explain this sort'a thing until you're blue in the face and/or have your fingers bleeding from typing this explanation on your keyboard, figuratively speaking of course, and STILL the riders who have never been allowed to do this and/or the cagers in every other state but California, especially, will NEVER in a million freakin' YEARS "get it"!!!)