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Actually thankfully some municipalities still make use of local police forces and haven't succumbed to hiring the OPP yet. Well, thankful if you pay property tax anyway, their strategy is generally undercut the local police force and then jack up the price after their position is secure and it...

Reading traffic, rapidly changing lanes to avoid hazards and dangerous situations, making your way quickly and efficiently through herds of cars to find the safe spaces inbetween large groups of them (on highways)...things that you don't learn while keeping busy scoffing at other riders...

[the high] Insurance rates have almost nothing to do with rider behavior in Ontario...if you are thinking this and feeling rage at your fellow riders...just stop now. this griff2 guy reminds me of several people I've had occasion to meet and know over the years.... - likely can barely stay on...

Self-interest is what motivates people rather than empathy - if we were ever going to truly convince Ontarians that motorcycles should use the HOT lanes free or the HOV lanes with a single rider we need to clearly demonstrate the benefits for them (not us)...but judging from some of the simpler...

It's about emotion and rationalizing, not a failure to understand. People who are too scared to do this and can barely keep their machine on the road to begin with don't like the idea of other people doing it either...rather than admit this to themselves they find and invent reasons why...

Leave the policing to the police and just focus on being safe and arriving at your destination in one piece.

Both are dangerous, both should be punished. Passing in a way that people wouldn't normally expect is more dangerous than blocking the road, but not much more wrong from an ethical perspective. A difference of intention but not of the end-result; being ignorant while driving is in itself...

The fault is more like 60/40 or 70/30 - you can't use the rules of the road as an excuse to be a passive aggressive ********* that attempts to keep people from passing. I see it on the roads everywhere but so far out of all the places I've been, Ontario is the worst for this...people speed up...

In some of these posts the frustrated drivers are well justified in taking normally unacceptable actions to bypass the people creating dangerous traffic obstacles. - The guy who passes the two idiots who are driving beside each other going the same speed for 2 minutes on a two lane road - The...

You're fat at heart if you ride a 1700 cc cruiser, your body just hasn't caught up yet. I would consider working for the MTO but I suspect it would pay considerably less than what I do now, so...probably not going to happen. I don't have all the answers, I just have considerably more answers...

Because I've provided enough information for a reasonable person to understand my point. For everyone else, here are the main reasons why motorcycles should be allowed in high occupancy lanes: - Lower environmental impact than cars, yes, even giant fat people bikes have a significantly lower...

Because it simply isn't true...once you're moving at highway speed space concerns are irrelevant...it's during times of congestion where vehicles are bumper to bumper (and bikes can move somewhat beside each other) where the advantages exist. Doing your little "thought experiments" in your head...

Nah, and the link you posted has no study proving they do - just more speculation based on outdated data on outdated motorcycles. I don't have all the information on what people are riding, but there is no way my little FZ8S with a catalytic converter and a proper modern fuel injection system...

Just so you are aware...the energy and materials (and environmental impact) of an electric car vastly offset any emission savings versus something with a small manufacturing footprint like a motorcycle. It isn't possible to argue that motorcycles have the same environmental impact as...

Anything special needed to attend one of these for the first time? Not new to track days but never done one here is ON

Been living and riding all over North America and a little bit in the EU. I have various bikes but my daily/usual ride is an FZ8S! I've been sort of lurking here for awhile, seems like a cool place aside from some hilariously wrong opinions and perceptions about lane splitting and why bikes...