SleepyC
Member
Ok, so when I was learning how to ride a motorcycle in 1988 on the road, I had to take a class. The class taught to always pick a tire track in a lane of traffic to ride in. The reasons being...
1) The car tires are constantly cleaning the area of small rocks, gravel, nails, etc etc. (car really help in sharp turns)
2) Car engines leak fluids 90%+ of the time in the middle of the lane
3) During rain, the car and truck tires basically "Dry" the tire lanes for you, or at least keep standing water from accumulating.
4) During rain, the oil and fluids dropped from car engines can get very slick in the middle of the road..
And yet I see almost every newer style (adv, sportbike, naked) motorcycle rider riding right down the middle of the road.
But most Harley guys use the "tire track" rule, and all the guys I've ridden with over the years use the "tire track" rule.
I have been riding in tire tracks for 30 years and it seems to work. Never hit bad unexpected gravel, or caught a screw or nail.
Also when you pull up to traffic at a stop sign or red light, if you are in a tire lane, and you angle your motorcycle out from the lane, if you were to be rear ended you would be pushed forward and not smashed between the cars.
I'm just posting this to see how many of you follow these old rules and how many just ride the middle..
1) The car tires are constantly cleaning the area of small rocks, gravel, nails, etc etc. (car really help in sharp turns)
2) Car engines leak fluids 90%+ of the time in the middle of the lane
3) During rain, the car and truck tires basically "Dry" the tire lanes for you, or at least keep standing water from accumulating.
4) During rain, the oil and fluids dropped from car engines can get very slick in the middle of the road..
And yet I see almost every newer style (adv, sportbike, naked) motorcycle rider riding right down the middle of the road.
But most Harley guys use the "tire track" rule, and all the guys I've ridden with over the years use the "tire track" rule.
I have been riding in tire tracks for 30 years and it seems to work. Never hit bad unexpected gravel, or caught a screw or nail.
Also when you pull up to traffic at a stop sign or red light, if you are in a tire lane, and you angle your motorcycle out from the lane, if you were to be rear ended you would be pushed forward and not smashed between the cars.
I'm just posting this to see how many of you follow these old rules and how many just ride the middle..