You guys are making me like I'm some crazy, irresponsible rider. If I rode at the speed limit, I would get run over. Of course this is socal. I ride 80-90 on the freeway, with burst up to 110 when I'm feeling lucky and just slightly faster than traffic on city streets. I split lanes on the highway if traffic is moving slower than 25-30 and I always split lanes to the front of a stop light.

Of course, when my girlfriend is in tow with her EX250, everything gets reduced by 1/3. Her bike won't do much more than 80 without a lot of vibration and she has no acceleration.

 

Well sure i do about 80 on the freeway in Socal, any trouble with the popo so far the way you're riding? My first week having my bike I've been doing 15-20mph over the speed limit, but I think I'll slow down, I donno how lenient they are on speeding tickets here.

 

I do about 40 down side streets and between 85-100 on the highway

 

Theres speed limits??? Oops. Na seriously, I don't ever bother looking at the speedo. Too much else around to pay attention to. I just go with the flow untill someone pisses me off, at which point down comes the hammer for a little while. I might do 5-10 faster than the flow of traffic.

 

I haven't had any tickets yet. Knock on wood! Cops don't seem to mess with people out here.

 

+1.

 

I'm glad to hear that lifties, cuz like I said, I'm in socal myself and don't know how the cops treat us sport bikers. I'm cautious because my dad got 2 BS tickets (one for passing cars on the shoulder, another for splitting lanes when he was in the carpool lane[:'(] ).