Tim, having decades of first-hand experience of how crummy FL drivers can be, in the interests of self-preservation, please consider not using your spike regalia except for parade use at shows, or something of the sort, but not for daily use.
All I can imagine is a perforated bladder/bowel/stomach resulting in massive bleeding and peritonitis, punctured bilateral lungs/trachea, subcutaneous emphysema and possibly pericardial tamponade as your perforated heart bleeds into the sac which contains it. Now if all that stuff you have on your bike and your regalia is rubber, please inform me and I apologize. I just see too-much trauma on the highways to not say something to someone whose posts I enjoy reading!
Unfortunately, anywhere you are, you can be the safest rider, but it's the latte'-swillin' cellphone talkin' child-discipline mediator who is easily-distracted instead of paying attention to piloting a 2 1/2 ton SUV down the road who drifts across the centerline and who takes you from this promised land of 12 months of sunshine, o.j., coral reef beaches, and Bike Week and Octoberfest, and who lands you right into a trauma center, because, "gee officer, I never saw him," as she crosses the double center line, or runs a traffic control device at an intersection.
No more preaching.
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