SCR and David, those are two things I thought about. When I was caught in traffic before I got downtown I saw how convenient lane splitting would be-never considered it as I’m almost certain it isn’t legal in Quebec. However, as convenient as it would be it looked like it would be a pretty scary ride, certainly until you got used to it. Downtown I don’t think it would have helped much as there weren’t any lanes to split, more like masses of cars crammed together heading in the same general direction, but at every angle possible. As for a scooter, the downtown portion of the debacle certainly would have been a little less unpleasant on my scooter with CVT and having about 200 fewer lbs to hold up, bit it still wouldn’t have been fun. One day I’d like to ride my scooter in NYC but the logistics of getting it there make it pretty unlikely, however, I am planning a trip to Italy in the next few years and certainly plan on riding a Vespa through Rome.
Speedy, lived many years in NYC, but long before I rode. My guess is that sometime in the next year or two the Ducati will find itself on the streets of Manhattan, if only because so many of my friends who’d have to have an evacuation order to leave the city, want to see my bike-more precisely they want to see me on the bike hoping to be lucky enough to see me do something embarrassing.
To add to my initial post, this is how exhausted I was. Although I didn’t really make this detail clear, didn’t want the post to go on forever, part of the reason we rode so much in the city is that before checking in to our hotel we wanted to go to a specialty food store and pick up some things to bring home. Right next to the store a brand new shop had opened, Ducati Montreal, and I couldn’t muster the energy to even poke my nose in, just wanted to make it to the hotel before I passed out.