To be fair, included padding almost always universally sucks, unless your stuff is high end.

Don't get me wrong, I wear padding, but it's almost all individual separate pieces. I have a higher end jacket that mostly had good padding, but I still had to swap out the chest protector and the back protector for better.

Its dangerous to ride. Period. So you might as well get to your destination faster.

I agree, I avoid traffic as much as humanly possible. I never ride in high traffic times.

I also agree on space, but it seems to be a game of how close someone can get to me without hitting me, and how many cell phones they can hold up, in addition to all the other distractions. I give bikers all the space they need, but it's not me they need to be worried about. It's all the other boneheads.

Ryan F9 isn't splitting, tho. He's filtering: slowly riding through slow moving or stopped traffic. There's a big difference.

I wouldn't do it unless the traffic was backed up and still like in the video. Tho it is also illegal in my state :(

I get the logic, but it makes people in cars panic, and that's never a safe thing either.

When on the road, I choose to just stay in gear with the clutch in at stops, and I always stop in a spot where I can quickly pop out of should I need to. Sometimes that means I need to be on a bit of an angle or whatever, but my first thoughts pulling up to a red light are: wheres the path of escape should I need it, and what's behind me and do they see me.