Fellow riders who won't let you pass... what do you do?

[Papa Lazarou]

Option: 4 Buy a Royal Enfield and hold up the traffic yourself next time.  

[ConPilot1]

Option: 4 Buy a Royal Enfield and hold up the traffic yourself next time.  

 

I needed that. LOFL

[Mrs. DantesDame]

There are only 3 options...

1)  Blow by them legally.
2)  Blow by them illegally (when safe).
3)  When all else fails (eg. crazy assed twisty road), pull over and take a break.

4) Ride where no one else rides

[SoCalFJR]

The answer to questions A-D is always more power............you must have been going up Palomar........

[jfurf]

On a straight? I'll pass em without even blinking. I AM a bit conservative about passing anywhere near blind corners. I HATE doing it and the roads in North Georgia on the weekends have more bikes than cars so mentally you should be judging the sight distance in terms of "if a 1098 comes around the turn at 20 over the speed limit, will I have time to get back into my lane."

[Yankee Dog]

..........................After miles of slow riding, I blasted past on a straight, which required me to cross the double yellow to give them plenty of room and be safe...............................

I think you found the correct solution. Passing them in the same lane, especially on a curvy road is definetly not safe.

[gradus]

I pass at the first opportunity on a straight and sometimes inside a turn where you a can see that it's clear.  I give a friendly wave, but it's really saying, "please forgive me."  

[ninjaridaz]

Maybe it's regional thing- in the chicagoland area, nobody will let you pass.  In the smoky mountains, just about everybody will let you pass.  I like the smokies better.

[county]

Personally I like to get really close behind them in a lower gear, running up to their license bracket, falling back, repeat and weave back and forth generally making a nuisance of myself so I am irritating them as much as they are irritating me....esp when it is a couple of slow ass FJR riders....

[Giaka]

That in mind, I have passed plenty of slowpokes that pass the mandatory turnouts after horns/hi beams/etc.  I just don't even notice them anymore.

I think because you and I commute on the Ortega we have become completely desensitized to passing slow people.  

[nater]

Catching up to a group of slower riders happens quite a bit when I'm out riding in the Black Hills.  If there is enough of a straight to pass (which usually there is not), than I pass.  If there isn't enough room to pass, then I will just stop beside the road and wait to go until I hear the next vehicle comming in my lane.  That gives me enough space to get a nice run a a few corners before I catch back up again.  No one has to pull over for me.  In fact, I've never had a group of more slowly-moving Harleys pull over.  They are out enjoying the day and so am I.  No need to ruin that.  Another strategy is to get out and ride your favorite roads before 1030AM--not many other tourists on the road at that time.

[Giaka]

Don't blame it on someone else. It's called riding your own ride and being safe.
Sorry, I don't subscribe to the notion that slower riders should pull over.

I should have known this......

[Kootenanny]

Don't blame it on someone else. It's called riding your own ride and being safe.
Sorry, I don't subscribe to the notion that slower riders should pull over.

So, when an irate dump truck driver rear ends you because you were going slow enough to irritate him, that's "safe?"

[county]

Sorry, I don't subscribe to the notion that slower riders should pull over.

Yeah, a lot of slow riders feel that way...

[bomber]

if you can't keep up with the normal flow of traffic on a road, be polite and pull over  . . . it's common courtesy (or should be) -- you can be safe and ride your own ride with becoming a hazard to navigation.

[Giaka]

Yeah, a lot of slow riders feel that way...

+ rep for you. 2012 is the end..........

[bikerfish1100]

Don't blame it on someone else. It's called riding your own ride and being safe. not alwaysSorry, I don't subscribe to the notion that slower riders should pull over.

Pass when you can. If you're panties are knotted in the meantime that's your problem.
Don't blame the slower rider. They may be doing the best they can and in a comfort zone.

 If you're that good, and want to ride faster, blast on by, by all means. Your balls, throttle and ego are evidently bigger and you've got no room for the slower rider. Do it.

i'll thoroughly disagree with you on that one. i had a memorable occurrence a few years ago on a sweet back road (Cortez to Telluride, approaching LIzard Head Pass). road was damp from showers, but nothing spectacular, and no impingement upon traction. Settled in behind a HUGE semi, that was doing about 20-25 mph, on a road signed at 45, and typically driven/ridden quite a bit beyond that, even by semis. Passed him at the first opportunity, and it turned out that he was being held up by a gal, riding solo, on her cruiser, who was clearly scared shiteless. she was not pulling over for anyone, but was "doing the best she can"-but was nowhere near any kind of comfort zone.
she would have been doing everyone else, and herself, a big favor if she just pulled over, caught her breath, let the traffic roll on by (about 3 cars and 3 bikes were also stacked up behind the semi), and then continue her insignificant pace.

riding one's own ride does not have to come at the expense of preventing everyone else on that stretch from doing the same.

[ninjaridaz]

yup- the way it should be.

[sprocket]

Personally I like to get really close behind them in a lower gear, running up to their license bracket, falling back, repeat and weave back and forth generally making a nuisance of myself so I am irritating them as much as they are irritating me....esp when it is a couple of slow ass FJR riders....

 

I'll leave it alone.................

[Powder Addict]

I'd have kicked their rear view mirrors on on the way by then chucked some BB's over my shoulder after the pass, but that's just me.