"CA is NOT two wheel freindly, be it bike, moped, or motorcycle."
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I've ridden 105,000 miles on a motorcycle in the past 4 years, most of it in California. No problems to speak of.....good judgement and an aggressive defense keeps the safety level acceptable.
Kudos to you, then. But I've never seen you on 880 or 101. All I've seen is your cohorts that zoom down the stripes between cars at 40, 50mph when there's a traffic jam. Sure, it's legal to go between cars in CA---but safely, at maybe 10-15mph. Slow enough to have an "aggressive defense" against lane changers on their cell phone.
Anyway, continued good luck to you.