Need advice on contesting a lane change ticket.

I'm on a motorcycle.

The interchange from 405n to 520e is a traffic jam most mornings and one of the most unsafe places on the road due to onboarding traffic merging left and outbound exiting traffic merging right.

The far right lane is an exit/entry lane that has a dotted white thick exit stripe. this lane is usually at a dead crawl stop to 10mph. until the lane eventually exits. Since cars enter this lane from an onramp and are forced to merge left - the lane is full before anyone approaching the exit can safely merge right.

The lane to the immediate left of the exit lane is the danger zone. Cars will sometimes stop dead in that lane with their blinker on trying to merge into the exit lane - but it is brutal - people don't want to let many in. So they'll creep along and look for an entry.

This morning I was merging from the HOV far left lane across the 4 lanes right to get into the 2nd lane (next to the right exit lane). The traffic was at a dead stop and I was hesitant to stop my scooter in that lane and put on a blinker and try to merge right.

Instead I continue in the 2nd lane until merges into an exit lane. The exit has 2 lanes the far right lane with the backup and the 2nd lane which exits west instead of east.

At the point where the exit for the the right lane occurs the dotted exit line turns to a solid white line for about 50 yards.. then turns back into a white dotted exit line.

After exiting in the 2nd lane I find a safe spot to merge into the far right exit lane after the white solid line - crossing over the 2nd dotted line. At this point in the offramp traffic is more spaced out and moving faster than 10mph. It is often referred to as lane cutting - but according to every newscast in the region where they interview the state patrol about it - it is legal. (thus the dotted white line).

As soon as I merge into the right lane, a state trooper who is in the median on to the left of the exit pulls across the 2nd lane into the right lane behind me in a matter of 25 yards (we weren't going all that fast) and pulls me over.

His first response to me is "why do you have to drive like that?"

He then explains that he watched me get out of the right lane - into the 2nd lane to pass a car and then back to the right lane again.

This is 100% not true. I merged all the way from the far left lane and never once got in the right hand lane until the exit.

He then writes me a ticket but calls it "Improper lane change" and says that just because I think there is space to merge doesn't mean there is.

I ask him again if I am getting a ticket for getting out of the right hand lane into the left and back again and he says yes. I say that I will contest it because it isn't true.

Even though I am 100% positive I did not do the maneuver he is claiming - the ticket says "improper lane change".

Did I in any way commit this traffic violation? I did not force the car behind me when I merged to slam on their brakes - in fact there was ample space for the officer to neatly pull in behind me.

Is this just officer error? He seemed pretty upset at me even though I was very polite and gave him total respect. He kept saying "we're having a lot of trouble with you guys". as if I was part of some group.

I'm contesting the ticket - but any advice would be appreciated. I'd like to keep my driving record clean.

Thanks in advance.