Split'en Lanes

[mason79]

agree, sometimes they think they can race around with you when traffic clears and that is another reason to have the bike running well , to run away from crazys,

i have been caught with a bad tune on the motor and suffer with the whole ride.

i notice with my headlight modulator flickering away that the red sea of congestion seem to part thinkin... authorities?

[malber]

It's not legal in my state.

[Pat Kelly]

I've always liked this video:

http://www.gofish.com/player.gfp?gfid=30-1012084

Split lanes here!! No helmets, no leathers, no collisions

[malber]

Re: Video..

Originally posted by planedick
After watching that video that Midnight posted, which looked like my riding with a helmet cam, I think I'll do much less lane splitting. That video scared me and thinking back, I scare me when I do that.

It was the Ventura Fwy on a Saturday. Looked pretty trafficy but it always seems to do that right before the 405 all the time. Last time I went back there a year and a half ago it seemed 100 times worse then when I lived there in '94. Even then, when I would drive it nearly every day, it was a ten hour a day parking lot. When it's bumper to bumper I could understand the lane splitters. When it's about 30mph like it was in that video it's craziness.

[JWSanders]

Originally posted by Pat Kelly
I've always liked this video:

http://www.gofish.com/player.gfp?gfid=30-1012084

Split lanes here!! No helmets, no leathers, no collisions

That is friggin' amazing! How they do that with no accidents is beyond me. A perfect example of what happens when people breed too much. Jeeeeeez!! Pure insanity....

[mro]

That is friggin' amazing!

I agree..
They don't speed or split lanes,......
Didn't see any lanes to split.

Could be LA in a decade or two...


mro

[HobbyMan]

Its not legal here. I wish it was. It is dangerous, but it is necessary sometimes. I think they should do that as an incentive for more people to ride bikes, not cages

[petejw]

its not legal here either
but if ur not overtaking on the inside of a vehicle
theres no offence committed.



the black bike isnt committing an offence only the red
one is, but when splitting lanes it would b near impossible
not to enter the other lane.
in oz we ride/drive on the correct side of the road unlike
our counterparts overseas. lol :-)

i do it a bit when traffic is stopped at lights,
or going really slowly,
i wont usually do it 2 up,
that vid from pat looks similar to bangkok
theyre crazy over there, how they dont kill themselves
is beyond me.

[Parr8hed]

I do it all of the time on my road bike. I can pedal faster than most cars are moving in stop and go. I do not typically stop at red lights either. I can make it to my office in Downtown Louisville just as quick on my bike as in my car when traffic is bad. It is a 5.2 mile sprint that I have done in like 10 min. But if no traffic than the cage is quicker. I do not typically do it on the XS though. Running the red lights is the real time advantage to my road bike and I never run red lights on the XS. Well almost never....

[cloerts]

My wife cured me of anything like that with a couple stories about organ donors that came through the ER at the hospital where she works. I'm kind of attached to my body, don't want to lose half of it to a car door.

[mason79]

for you guys that live in states that don't allow it, you are missing a thrill, albeit not cheap if you crash,

but out of sheer frustration in this traffic do we find ways just to keep it $ssholes and elbows,

and besides it is so thick and if you do it well i don't see the authorities being able to catch up to you, what would be the ticket?

i know this is a family channel, because we are an old fart(can i say that, this is cable right?) audiance, and not condoning breaking the law, but you bikers out there have an edge, don't you?

[trbig]

if you do it well i don't see the authorities being able to catch up to you

Very few bikes can outrun a helicopter.. and NONE can outrun that radio.

Lane splitting is legal in Oklahoma,(Not so much legal... but not listed as ILLEGAL) but it seems they would get you for illegal/ unsafe lane change. I got pulled over a few weeks ago for zipping around a car that cut me off. That's what I was told the offense was?? He said at least 500 feet after you have established your lane until you can change?? He just gave a me a warning, but I would like to know the legalities of it.

Tod

[mason79]

i guess it depends on the copper puliing you over, i got a no headlight ticket on my 10 speed bicycle, that i'm fighting, i read the code and it says "when operating on a public highway" i was straddling it on private property.


yes why would a black and white you just pasted on the freeway callin helicopters? is that not police brutalty?

[DiverRay]

Living in CA, I "lane share", as the correct legal term. My rule of thumb is go no faster than the ability to stop before you reach the front of the car you are sharing the lane with.
I have had people try to keep me from going between cars, but most of them can be avoided. I have "moved" mirrors on one or two cars, but always for a reason.

[skippy344]

I don't have a need to...

I live about 5 miles from my work, in a little college town, home to the fightin' Texas Aggies, WHOOP!

Anytime I ride with folks for pleasure, we aren't in a hurry to get where we are goin', 'cause getting there, on an XS is the best part of the trip.

Besides, there are way too many cage driving idiots, on cell phones thinking they are way too important to look out for me.

Rather than a driving test, I think they should give everyone a IQ and MENSA test, if they score low on either, its walking time, buddy!

I should invent a device that disables a cell phone in the car unless its in park, or neutral with the parking brake set.

Of course, I'm guilty of using the phone while in the car too...

Alex, I'll take hypocrisy for $200...

greg