Splitting Lanes: Should it be Legal Everywhere?
#131
09-12-2014 | 01:02 AM
I don't know if you have motorcycle police officers in your state that ride in heavy traffic. To me it seems odd that the police don't use the center line for traffic control.
#132
09-12-2014 | 05:39 AM
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I've read through all the posts here yet again, and I think I may see the problem people have with lane splitting. Nearly everyone who expressed an opinion against lane splitting mentions riders "zipping past" traffic.
This is NOT lane splitting, it is reckless driving:
This is lane splitting:
This is NOT lane splitting, it is reckless driving:
This is lane splitting:
#133
09-12-2014 | 06:21 AM
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From: Tulsa, OK
Nothing worse than I-15/I-40 junction traffic on a 3 day holiday when it's 100+ degrees outside. There were people in Barstow who's entertainment was setting lawn chairs up on the overpasses and watching traffic crawl.
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#134
09-12-2014 | 08:51 AM
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Even though I shouldn't be, I'm always amazed at some of the bad-***, chest pounding responses on these types of threads. If ANYONE disagrees, they're automatically unAmerican pussies with no ***** who have no business riding a bike. Grow the f*ck up. It's just a damn thread on a forum where people voice opinions. It doesn't affect anyone's life in the slightest. Christ, get a freaking grip...
#135
09-12-2014 | 08:53 AM
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From: Southern NY, known as Florida
Chances are I have already while you where in passed through that state many many times, never had the patience to sit in traffic since day one. Been doing it all my riding career both here stateside and abroad. I'll follow a law if makes sense , cooking my nuts off in a midwestern summer sitting grid locked while I'm on one of the most highly mobile means of transportation made never made sense to me so I didn't and I never got tagged for it. Secondly I don't say **** to a cop once stopped except the bare minimum to cover it , getting chatty is for amateurs. Know your type well , can see you coming farther off than you might suspect.
Trick is don't be stupid or a dick about it, being able to read the traffic around you & which gomer is gonna try to be a hero watching wing mirrors will tell a smart man volumes and know were you bubble gum guys are before acting up, been there done that.
Trick is don't be stupid or a dick about it, being able to read the traffic around you & which gomer is gonna try to be a hero watching wing mirrors will tell a smart man volumes and know were you bubble gum guys are before acting up, been there done that.
#136
09-12-2014 | 08:55 AM
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From: Kentucky
Here on the Forum, members talk a lot about legal issues, from loud pipes, to licensing, to helmet laws. But one of the things I don't see a lot of conversation about? Splitting lanes. And the reason for that is the only state in the union where it's legal to drive a motorcycle between cars is the great state of California. Everywhere else, it'll result in a reckless riding ticket—or worse.
#138
09-12-2014 | 09:21 AM
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I'm just glad that I live in Podunkland, am retired, don't ever have to be anywhere in a hurry, and rarely see traffic messes. With the traffic problems many of you in California have, I can see why you want to lane split. I'll just keep moving along waving at the cows! 
#140
09-12-2014 | 09:40 AM
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From: CO
What the HELL are you talking about?? This thread isn't going to change a thing so, take it down a notch, Spanky.
Even though I shouldn't be, I'm always amazed at some of the bad-***, chest pounding responses on these types of threads. If ANYONE disagrees, they're automatically unAmerican pussies with no ***** who have no business riding a bike. Grow the f*ck up. It's just a damn thread on a forum where people voice opinions. It doesn't affect anyone's life in the slightest. Christ, get a freaking grip...
Even though I shouldn't be, I'm always amazed at some of the bad-***, chest pounding responses on these types of threads. If ANYONE disagrees, they're automatically unAmerican pussies with no ***** who have no business riding a bike. Grow the f*ck up. It's just a damn thread on a forum where people voice opinions. It doesn't affect anyone's life in the slightest. Christ, get a freaking grip...