Risk is that this tempts you into complacency- "He must have heard me". A lot of people won't- a modern execmobile's pretty much hermetically sealed, and you also have music, engine noise, screaming kids, handsfrees... I used to have a twin system that was ridiculously loud, and it actually caused people to panic when I approached- you'd see them look around for the source of the noise, and sometimes wander all over the road while they're distracted.

Not saying it's a bad idea, but don't count on it. Most of the sound goes backwards, and even when it goes forwards it's just another traffic noise.

As said, ride to what you feel comfortable with. Some people will go faster, some will go slower, everyones different.

My riding will depend on the traffic, the weather, the road surface, others around me etc.. I try not to ride any quicker than I could possibly brake.

After being knocked off twice, I now know its MUCH slower than I originally thought. I ride my my finger (or 2) and foot over the brakes at all times whilst filtering.

Another thing to be carefull when you get into town is pedestrians as they can just appear out of no-where.

In time, you'll start to see how car drivers drive, most of the time being able to see that they are going to change lanes before they even realise they are going to do it themselves, but then again you always get the few that just flick lanes... SO be weary at ALL times...

Also, look at the gaps, if a car is to your right and a gap is on the left hand lane, will that car move over???

I see many cars indicating and the bike tries to squeeze through anyway. Gets on my nerves, the car is doingt he right thing and the bike rides silly just to save another 2-3 seconds wait, its not like the bike is going to beat a car through traffic anyway....... :roll: Why risk your life and make other bikers look bad just to save literally a few seconds.....

As an idea, the A2 i ride on is practially doing 5-10mph every day, i try not to do over 25mph ish as if a car cuts accross, I now KNOW I wont' stop in time, even if sometimes i think i can :lol:

Another hint, is it worth muchos injurie just to save a few minutes... :)

I have kind of a newbie question. I was commuting for the first time the other day and after a while going 5-10 miles per hour in some heavy traffic my engine started to overheat. Was it due to a poor use of clutch/throttle or simply because that's how it goes? If so, what should I do in that case, pull over and wait for it to cool?

define overheat?

Overheat as in fan on & roughly 100C+ ??

That's just how it goes in warm (ish) weather & slow moving.

The little red light on the RPM dial reader comes on.