{"id":5794,"date":"2015-01-29T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:32:04","slug":"first-ride-to-work-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/first-ride-to-work-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ride To Work For 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lots of good riding this week.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I guess they’ve gotten pounded out East but here in Colorado we’ve had some gorgeous, warm weather. Of course I had to ride to work on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

There was no way I was going out without my electric vest, and was glad for that in the morning. At first I thought I might regret not wearing my heated gloves but my fingers stayed warm enough.<\/p>\n

As beautiful a day as it was you might have expected to see a lot of bikes out but I only noticed three, plus two motorcycle cops. Coming home I saw six.<\/p>\n

One of the best things of all was that nobody tried to kill me. That doesn’t mean I didn’t encounter stupid drivers. On the way in I was cruising along when a woman decided to change into my lane, which was the left lane. Of course then she didn’t go one bit faster than she had been going in the right-hand lane. Each time we approached a green traffic light she would–with no cars closer in front of her than 150 feet–hit her brakes. And I watched as the cars in front of her got further and further ahead and we missed green lights we should have made. Arrrgh!<\/p>\n

Coming home it was warm enough I didn’t turn on the vest. Such a nice day in January!<\/p>\n

At one point I came upon a piece of carpet lying in the road, and I thought about stories I’ve heard of guys on bikes going over something like that and having it go flying out under their wheels, kind of like riding on ice. I swerved around that.<\/p>\n

And then there was the evening commute idiot–almost the same kind of thing as the morning idiot.<\/p>\n

In this case, though, the guy in the right lane had his left turn signal on and so I gave him plenty of room to move over. But he didn’t. After giving way more time than warranted I decided to shoot past him. No way was I going to pass him at an easy pace; sure as I started to do something like that he would have decided that now was the time to change lanes.<\/p>\n

As soon as I got ahead of him he did change lanes. And slowed down. I watched him fade away in my mirror. It occurred to me that I was glad he didn’t pull over when I offered to let him because if he had I would now be the guy behind him cursing.<\/p>\n

Why are some people so stupid?<\/p>\n

So anyway, I was off work on Wednesday and had some errands to run so I did them on the Suzuki. A bit cooler, definitely more windy, but still a really nice day to ride in January. I love Colorado.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

If I could fit them on my KLR, would I need to add auto-immune suppression meds to the tank with each fill up? (OK, I don’t quite get this one either but I still thought it was interesting.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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