The other tip is ride like every car on the road is trying to kill you....
I used to ride, and even though I rode responsibly there was the occasional idiot who seemed to have it in for me. I was riding down a residential street one day and a guy was stopped on a side road ahead of me. When I got to the intersection, he pulled right out in front of me. I almost laid the bike down trying to avoid him. The look he gave me was priceless, like ‘where the hell did YOU come from??’
Incidentally, I always rode Kawasakis or Hondas because I couldn’t afford a Harley, as they were always several thousand dollars more than I could come up with.