Comments on: Freeway motorcyclists: California vs. Virginia

By: Omar

Omar — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:39:29 +0000

Yeah, try driving in Chicago! If you look around you’ll notice everyones car is banged up and destroyed because of the erratic driving out there. Cool observation of the two though, California and Virginia.

By: Diana Fitzpatrick

Diana Fitzpatrick — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:36:32 +0000

Ive even noticed a big difference between the drivers in socal and nocal. I live in Sactown nowadays, I grew up in O.C and I remember drivers in LA dont slow down on the freeway to look at a fender bender, the traffic flows. Here if a cop is giving a motor rider a ticket the freeway comes to a stop, which is much more dangerous.

By: Richard Glitter

Richard Glitter — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:20:03 +0000

I agree with you on the driving habits. I also lived in Chicago, and live in SoCal now, and Chicago drivers are like how you described Virginia drivers – very agressive, and ALWAYS changing lanes instantly if they perceive a .00004 second time savings. Here, people get in the lane they need to be in based on when they’re going to exit, and just go with the flow (for the most part).

What fishsprout says about gear is mostly true about the central valley and inland empire, but most of the riders in Socal who commute and/or rail the canyons on weekends are pretty good about gear. It’s the squids on PCH and in Riverside county who don’t wear gear.

In the Bay area everyone HAS to wear gear because it’s always cold and raining :P

By: fishsprout

fishsprout — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:46:59 +0000

Lane splitting isn’t legal here… we lane “share” :) That makes us legal.

And, If you head down to so-cal or the valley you can throw the moto-gear idea out the window, nobody wears gear in those parts. Maybe because our traffic moves up here, and our weather is cooler so we’re gear heads. Check out the BARF forum (bayarearidersforum.com) sometime and you’ll see the Bay Area is an anomaly from the rest of Cali.