Recent content by Frio

I would never lane-split in traffic here, but filtering? Oh yes. I have been riding in Italy for 20+ years before moving here, and filtering is absolutely standard practice...

I was there too, nice turnout indeed :)

Interesting, I may go...

I live downtown too. I am up for some rides, as long as it's not just for the purpose of making noise and showing off... (sorry I have seen way too many of that kind of riders downtown) Frio

Oh man, these are probably the best two comments I have read on the forum in a few days...

Re: Wannabe GP-riders on the Gardiner Oh well, I am always fascinated by the concept of "doing whatever one pleases including putting people in danger and going against the law, after all one is only young once"... to everyone his/her own I guess.

Wannabe GP-riders on the Gardiner This afternoon, around 5:30pm, Gardiner going East between the 417 and Downtown Toronto, a group of riders wearing t-shirts and shorts on sportbikes (1 R1, 3 Gixxers). These guys were going way faster than traffic, and constantly weaving left and right with...

Ah a pristine example of the great art of nitpicking, interesting how your response to my first two points focuses on the use of "my" rather than a generic sentence subject. Your comment about not picking laws as we please is entirely questionable. My argument is entirely based on a complaint...

I am sorry Sir, but it is not necessarily selfishness. When I drive my car I have no such urge to get in front whatsoever, I follow all the other traffic, as my vehicle occupies a good portion of the lane I am travelling onto. With the motorcycle on the other hand there are several valid...

If there is one ridiculous law over here this has to be it. Given that the amount of motorcycles on the Ontario roads is pretty small, I really don't understand why filtering is illegal, not lane splitting, filtering. Motorcycles are obviously smaller than cars (well the ones that aren't Electra...

Excellent avatar! The "Highway Star" is by far the best vehicle of the entire series (one of my all time favorites).

I have been to T.O. this week to fix a leak on my Triumph, and sure enough the people I talked to (mostly Ralph and Junior) have been very friendly and full of advice. All in all they seemed competent and honest, I will definitely go back there if I have anything to do on my bike.

Married and we both have riding license, the wife hasn't had a bike since we moved to Canada from Europe... downtown Toronto is really not the best place for her to get back into it, and we have a 3yo daughter now.

A friend has one, he told me it's the best bike he has ever ridden, full stop. A bit of a biased opinion though, as he always wanted one in the first place :-)

This is precisely it. I live really in the middle of downtown and the constant grid of incomparably unsynchronized traffic lights, combined with the general careless and (stress induced?) "all-out attack" attitude of drivers, just drives me (no pun intended) insane. Living downtown surely has...