Stoplights - Neutral or Clutch?
#41
Usually it's clutch, but this depends on how long of a wait and how many cars are stopped behind me.
And about having to possibly escape. Being first in line at an intersection and having to evade someone coming up behind you doesn't mean you have to go into the path of the crossing traffic, you can always cut left or right to get out of the way. Going straight through would be idiotic at best.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/wat...?autoplay=true
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And about having to possibly escape. Being first in line at an intersection and having to evade someone coming up behind you doesn't mean you have to go into the path of the crossing traffic, you can always cut left or right to get out of the way. Going straight through would be idiotic at best.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/wat...?autoplay=true
cheers
#42
Another clutch guy, just out of habit. If no one is behind me initially, I watch the mirrors and as a following vehicle approaches, I flash the BAL a time or 2 extra. The escape logic is fine, but I wonder how many stopped vehicles need to be in line behind you before you feel "protected". For me, it is 2. It would take quite a whack to shove 2 stopped vehicles forward enough to hit me, and my line of sight would probably too blocked to see the guilty SOB coming anyway.
#44
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I do this too, every intersection here has red lights and they last a long time. Once I see there are a few cars behind me I put the bike in neutral and rest my left hand.
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#49
Mostly clutch in, but if there are cars already stopped behind me and it's gonna be awhile for the light to hit green again- she's in neutral and then wait for that wonderful "CLUNK" & we're off till the next friggn light.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
#50
If I had my eyes on the mirrors it would have been a bad situation.