Uh huh. You know what it is...

Black and Yellow: My new ride for the next month.

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You're looking at a late model BMW F 800 GS, and it's the first BMW I've ever ridden. So far I've only put 10km on it, which, in useful units of measure, is approximately 35 minutes of riding in London traffic.

It's a pretty comfortable ride, though much different than the bikes that I'm used to riding. I'm sure I'll have more to say as I spend more time with it, but first we should talk about what it's like to ride on the left wrong side of the road... in the rain... in London traffic.

Up until today, I'd spent quite a bit of time thinking about what it would be like to ride on the wrong side of the road. The more I thought about it, the more I decided that I wasn't going to like it. All week I've been observing how vehicles move on the street, specifically:

• where they stop to make turns
• how they manage to make it to the far lane when making a right turn onto another street
• pedestrian management

As it turns out, it's really, really easy to drive on the wrong side of the road. This is largely due to the fact that any desire to drive on the correct side of the road is quickly squashed because of the oncoming traffic. In fact, all my observations and analyses were completely useless because everyone here drives like an asshole anyway.