Friday afternoon and had to make a run to Denver. Figured I'd jump on the VFR and didn't expect traffic to be too bad headed into town.
WRONG
Bumper to bumper stop and go starting at 144th. Almost got taken out by some bitch not paying attention around 104th. Fortunately I was coming to a stop on the yellow line edge of my lane and not in the lane or it would have been squish.
Next, I get just south of the I25 and 76 interchange and the bike dies. When it took about 30 minutes to go 5 miles, fan running, high beams on, brake lights on, ignition coils firing, turning less than 2k RPM at any time = dead battery.
I had to push that heavy bitch a half mile uphill to the start of 58th street exit until the road was flat/level enough to bump start. One guy on a yellow CBR? with nice Leo exhaust stopped to see if there was anything he could do to help. Didn't recognize him, but thanks if you're here.
Lane splitting would have been nice yesterday.