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Talk Less, Say More
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Moab Utah. Home of wierd red & orange radioactive stuff... And 1 billion tourists.
Posts: 13,182
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Originally Posted by John Lyon
On that note, I just finished Sport Riding Techniques by Nick Ienatsch (is that his real name?) and he claims that the California Highway Patrol instructs its moto officers to travel a "little" faster than the flow of traffic for safety reasons. On that basis, I would think you could get away with going traffic flow, plus 2 or 3 mph, at least in CA, regardless of what the speedo said. Not sure this would fly in Utah, but its actually what I pretty much do here.
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Travelling faster, or slower than traffic (and I have minimal here) makes perfect sense, and by default that's what I do.
Truthfully, I usually travel by instinct out here and staying very aware of any movement (traffic or other) within my lines of sight, forward and backward has served me well for tickets and animals. Only looking at the speedo or GPS out of curiosity or if I'm really trying to make time or a destination by a certain time.
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