Lane splitting (or evading) in North Texas
#21
10-17-2014 | 09:21 PM
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Eh, to use a grocery store analogy, I'd say lane splitting is more like only buying a few things and so using the express check-out rather than get in line with everyone with full shopping carts- as opposed to only buying a few things and then cutting in front of the full-shopping-cart line.
#26
10-18-2014 | 08:48 AM
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shoulders are for emergency use only. what you did was not lane splitting. there is a solid white line that you have to cross to get to the shoulder...and there is a yellow one on the left shoulder. neither should be crossed under normal circumstances. riding a bike does not give you special privileges to obey the laws that you find fits your circumstances. wait your turn like everyone else. a bike on the shoulder, then a small car, followed by a SUV, and then an 18 wheeler says "why not me to?".
#27
10-18-2014 | 09:05 AM
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Eh, to use a grocery store analogy, I'd say lane splitting is more like only buying a few things and so using the express check-out rather than get in line with everyone with full shopping carts- as opposed to only buying a few things and then cutting in front of the full-shopping-cart line.
#28
10-18-2014 | 09:19 AM
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I love this analogy. The problem, and reason I am against the sort of thing the OP is about, is we ALL go through the same cash register. Most of our bottlenecks are a very confined spot that through poor engineering or simply to much population growth can't handle the flow. Therefore it is like we have one cash register that we must all stop to pay at and three or four lanes for the carts. If you add lane splitting it just increases the number of lanes to five or six all fighting for one cash register.
This is the dumbest analogy I've seen in a while.
#29
10-18-2014 | 09:21 AM
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A few years ago I was caught in a construction area on 75 north of Dallas.
I was sitting ,and moving about five feet every 20 seconds.
I left the freeway , went into the construction area (dirt/gravel, ditches, and machinery, rode about a quarter of a mile to the open road.
At 100 degrees out ,I figured either I would die from the heat , or burn up my motor.
So give me a ticket, however what happened was the construction workers saluted, the (some) stuck cage drivers gave me a thumbs up.
I was sitting ,and moving about five feet every 20 seconds.
I left the freeway , went into the construction area (dirt/gravel, ditches, and machinery, rode about a quarter of a mile to the open road.
At 100 degrees out ,I figured either I would die from the heat , or burn up my motor.
So give me a ticket, however what happened was the construction workers saluted, the (some) stuck cage drivers gave me a thumbs up.
#30
10-18-2014 | 09:47 AM
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A few years ago I was caught in a construction area on 75 north of Dallas.
I was sitting ,and moving about five feet every 20 seconds.
I left the freeway , went into the construction area (dirt/gravel, ditches, and machinery, rode about a quarter of a mile to the open road.
At 100 degrees out ,I figured either I would die from the heat , or burn up my motor.
So give me a ticket, however what happened was the construction workers saluted, the (some) stuck cage drivers gave me a thumbs up.
I was sitting ,and moving about five feet every 20 seconds.
I left the freeway , went into the construction area (dirt/gravel, ditches, and machinery, rode about a quarter of a mile to the open road.
At 100 degrees out ,I figured either I would die from the heat , or burn up my motor.
So give me a ticket, however what happened was the construction workers saluted, the (some) stuck cage drivers gave me a thumbs up.
I did forget to mention, I've been doing his stunt for at least a couple years. This the first negative reaction I have ever encountered. Have actually had several people wave me through.