I was hanging around at Truman Waterfront waiting for my wife to finish up her girls own party at Fort Zachary and I wanted to wait in the shade. Naturally the only shady spot was banned to vehicles for some reason I couldn't fathom so I parked there anyway.
Which caused me to ponder a little about why it is that everyone isn't riding around on two wheels in Key West. I suppose one has to discount a few people who simply can't travel balance don two wheels but when I'm driving Miss Cheyenne I miss the flexibility of the Bonneville.
Florida has no helmet requirement for anyone 21 or older who has proof of medical insurance but this is not a state that allows lane splitting or "filtering" as the English call it. In some respects it's probably just as well as most people in cars are doing anything except paying attention, however it does leave one stuck in a line of traffic that it would be so easy to just slip past... 
"No stopping on Bridges" says the sign. Unless you are riding a motorcycle over Cow Key Bridge leaving the city and want to make one last phone call in Key West.
This guy in a yellow wife beater epitomizes to me why I just don't like cruisers. Feet splayed I followed him all the way home with his clothes flapping and his open pipes blatting. He also kept accelerating and slowing down, surging so that I had to do the same.
Had I been on the Bonneville I could have slipped past him and the car in front but in the four cylinder Fusion there was never a wide enough break in oncoming traffic to get past. Another reason to prefer two wheels over four.
Which caused me to ponder a little about why it is that everyone isn't riding around on two wheels in Key West. I suppose one has to discount a few people who simply can't travel balance don two wheels but when I'm driving Miss Cheyenne I miss the flexibility of the Bonneville.Florida has no helmet requirement for anyone 21 or older who has proof of medical insurance but this is not a state that allows lane splitting or "filtering" as the English call it. In some respects it's probably just as well as most people in cars are doing anything except paying attention, however it does leave one stuck in a line of traffic that it would be so easy to just slip past... 
"No stopping on Bridges" says the sign. Unless you are riding a motorcycle over Cow Key Bridge leaving the city and want to make one last phone call in Key West.
This guy in a yellow wife beater epitomizes to me why I just don't like cruisers. Feet splayed I followed him all the way home with his clothes flapping and his open pipes blatting. He also kept accelerating and slowing down, surging so that I had to do the same.
Had I been on the Bonneville I could have slipped past him and the car in front but in the four cylinder Fusion there was never a wide enough break in oncoming traffic to get past. Another reason to prefer two wheels over four.
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