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What's the best way to get around Japan...

What's the best way to get around Japan...

To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Classic Car Restoration, JDM, and Automotive History Feb 14, 2025 1 min
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Exploring the best ways to navigate Japan, the host shares personal experiences of riding a motorcycle, highlighting the advantages of lane splitting and filtering through traffic. With anecdotes from living in Yokohama, listeners learn how motorcycle commuting significantly reduces travel time compared to driving a car. The episode features a discussion about the Suzuki DR250XC Gibbel, a dual sport bike that enhances the joy of touring around Japan's diverse landscapes.

Topics: motorcycle commuting lane splitting travel time suzuki dr250xc gibbel urban mobility
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I got a wild hair and went out and bought a motorcycle, so that's by far the easiest way
to get around.
The side of the lane belongs to two-wheelers, by law, like you have to give room.
That's really meant for bikes and scooters, but if you're on a motorcycle, you can use
that space, and you're allowed to filter and lane split.
Every red light, you just roll to the front. Even if there's traffic, you're not sitting
in traffic, you just roll to the front of every stoplight.
If you drove, we lived in Yokohama for a while, so if you drove in the afternoon, in the
morning, it was 35 minutes, at 6 in the morning. It was a 35-minute drive. At 5 o'clock,
it was 90 minutes. But on the motorcycle, it was only 50. That's a huge difference.
Yeah, lights on that.
Yeah. It was a lot of fun. I toured around some, and I had a small bike. It was a perfect bike.
It was a Suzuki DR250XC Gibbel. That's D-J-E-B-E-L, which is, I think, mountain.
Gibbel. Okay.
Moroccan. But it was a dual sport on off-road bike.

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