I had some 16" gimps on my Softail when I was in California last. We were splitting traffic and I tagged someone's mirror with my elbow. Not bad, just enough to hit my funny bone and make my hand go numb. I prefer to keep it tight and tucked.

 

Born and raised in Cali. I could not imagine riding without splitting.

 

Dang, this turned into the badass thread!

 

I split lane's all over calif .morning work traffic and going home from work traffic around special event's lived in sandiego and had to deal with quail com durning foot ball-base ball monster truck event's so on so forth .35 yr's of it bumped 2 mirror's kicked at least 2 fender's outher than that did pretty good most cages will move for ya .great bunch of people down thier even when ther was an accident law inforcement would let me by if possible . So iron owner eat ****.

 

Nothing like a guy threatening to clean you out with his truck to get the hairs raised.

Okay, no more tough guy ****, boys. Let's keep it on track.

Anyone have any special techniques for splitting, or how about some stories?

 

I live in the country, so there is not much need to lane split. I don't know if it is legal here in Louisiana, but if I were stuck in a mess on one of our "over the swamp" highway corridors, I would certainly do it as carefully and courteously as possible. I have taken a good slide down the asphalt, so I'm gonna claim "chicken" when it comes to high speed lane splitting.

 

ya that's a big 10-4 lol thank's shovelhead jack for changing the subject nothing at this time . C-ya.

 

No need to split where I live and it is illegal.....I would sure do it in Cali but probably not at high speed.....when I am stopped at a red light I do make sure I am positioned right to go between the cars in front in case some cager idiot comes up behind me not looking....I ain't taking it in the rear from a cager if I can help it.....

 

Pulling up between cars at a red is a really smart idea. Too many good folks getting cleaned out because some cager's not paying attention.

Sometimes the best defensive riding is to go about it aggressively IMFO.

 

Man i am so glad i didn't buy a trike .lol. Anybody ever see one try to split lanes. How does that work?????????.