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[QUOTE="BadBronco, post: 631433, member: 44782"] I had a 91' CBR600F2 in 92' and had ridden MX many hrs every month in the 80's. My fealing is with offroad riding, at least in my case, my main danger is myself and not grabbing to much throttle. But as you've heard, on the street its almost always the other guy. I sold my CBR for several reasons, but a big one was all the close calls I had. I would'nt mind having another street bike myself, but I would make a rule to never ride during rush hour, and when riding at night I'd do everything to avoid going through major intersections. When I had my bike I religously followed the advice I still remember from the drivers liscense manual, which stated to do a little zig zagging when approaching intersections with opposeing traffic. That way your headlight doesn't blend in to cars that might be behind you and thus give someone thats wanting to turn left in front of you, the impression your still further away than you really are. In AZ thats how most street bike riders get there trip to the hospital or the big track in the sky. All the close calls I personally had were from people forgetting I was in the lane next to them. Which always amazed me since I had a fairly loud Vance & Hines exhaust. I quickly started making myself as hard to miss in this situation aswell. Even if I was in heavy traffic and stuck riding next to a car I would accelerate as far forward as I could and then slow back up, then speed back up again. So every so often I would be popping into the auto drivers line of peripheral vision. If I didn't do that, and I would ride say even with the drivers door or further back, hell forget it, I'd have people come into my lane once or twice a week. I'm not big on getting real excited and making a habit of flipping people off, as a matter of fact I almost never flip people off driving my Bronco (I just lay on the horn if its a close one), but I was giving the bird when I had my CBR like it was going out of style. I always rode very mellow around cars too. I'd wait untill nobody was around to take the tach to 12,500rpm, or maybe do a few short wheelies. If I had a family, I'd plan on being as careful around cars as possible, and even then I don't know if I'd personally get another street bike. In my case not having a family would make it slightly more possible. Good luck! And watch out for the morons in cars. [/QUOTE]
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