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NorCalRider YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 47 SF, California Gender:	Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled 02/12/13 at 12:49:02 Article in today's San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Motorcycle-lane-splitting-rules-unveile... CA DMV lane-splitting guidelines. http://www.chp.ca.gov/programs/lanesplitguide.html
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gone fishing Full Member Offline Posts: 152 Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #1 - 02/12/13 at 14:27:57 Its illegal here and will get you a big fat ticket.
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Dj12midnit Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline If you'r here and I'm here isn't this our time? Posts: 1036 Lynden Wa. Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #2 - 02/12/13 at 16:50:45 Hang in there hex they might smarten up and allow it. Hell pot is legal now
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Greg Serious Thumper Offline Molon Labe Posts: 1251 Southeast PA, uSA Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #3 - 02/12/13 at 16:53:27 gone fishing wrote on 02/12/13 at 14:27:57: Its illegal here and will get you a big fat ticket. Legal schmegal. As long as you don't hurt anyone, have at it.
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gone fishing Full Member Offline Posts: 152 Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #4 - 02/12/13 at 17:08:50
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Greg Serious Thumper Offline Molon Labe Posts: 1251 Southeast PA, uSA Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #5 - 02/12/13 at 17:13:40 I don't do it for the same reason, someone will open their door. I understand though. Kinda. When I see a car riding the berm to get in front of a line of cars, I pull over to impede their forward movement.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #6 - 02/12/13 at 17:14:35 It strikes me as dangerous in moving traffic,.. legal or not... I wouldn't mind if they allowed it here,.. at lights,... between stopped traffic,.. limit the speed to 10mph... (That's the only time I'd do it anyway...)... ... I'm such a wuss.... ...
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NorCalRider YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 47 SF, California Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #7 - 02/12/13 at 20:04:45 I am too much of a newbie (or wuss) to do even though it is legal here. I have seen many a times when bikes misjudged the gap and clipped cars' mirrors.
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Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled
Reply #8 - 02/12/13 at 20:35:35

I do it all the time.
I started as many have, thinking that I should ride like a car using the same spacing and being courteous as the next guy.
And that when it started, the guy next to me (with illegally tinted windows) decided the lane next to him was vacant. And I was over on that line lickety split, and have been there ever since.

If you're behind a car or truck and on the white line you're in his mirror.

Next advantage, if some text zombie comes racin' up to your behind, you won't be the meat in a car sandwich.

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mustang YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 23	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #9 - 02/12/13 at 21:22:51 do what you have to do to be safe, legal or not.....
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Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled
Reply #10 - 02/12/13 at 22:32:13

verslagen1 wrote on 02/12/13 at 20:35:35:

I do it all the time.
I started as many have, thinking that I should ride like a car using the same spacing and being courteous as the next guy.
And that when it started, the guy next to me (with illegally tinted windows) decided the lane next to him was vacant. And I was over on that line lickety split, and have been there ever since.

If you're behind a car or truck and on the white line you're in his mirror.

Next advantage, if some text zombie comes racin' up to your behind, you won't be the meat in a car sandwich.

There's some decent logic there...
Although it's not legal here,.. and I don't do it,... I do try to be ready to jump through that gap in an emergency...

I may rethink, if it ever becomes legal here...
I just see those crazy Youtube vids of guys splitting lanes at a speed of sound... and pucker so tight, I think I can taste my testicles...
Huh

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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #11 - 02/13/13 at 02:24:59 I do it if there's no alternative. I don't like it and have seen one go down, uninjured fortunately.
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Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled
Reply #12 - 02/13/13 at 04:59:23

I wish it was legal here, at least when traffic is stopped or almost stopped. Part of the reason for riding a motorcycle is to be able to go where cars can't - safely of course. Not likely to ever happen here in The Peoples Republic of New York though. Gummint here is much more interested in telling folks what they CAN'T do.

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Paraquat Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2206	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #13 - 02/13/13 at 09:17:02 Serowbot wrote on 02/12/13 at 17:14:35: It strikes me as dangerous in moving traffic,.. legal or not... It's not only illegal here I, personally, think it's stupid and dangerous. --Steve
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mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: Motorcycle lane-splitting rules unveiled Reply #14 - 02/13/13 at 11:23:13 Lane splitting ? It's physiological ! I mean, if you're stuck in traffic, would you just sit and let the bike roast itself to death, or poodle forwards ? By the way... I could fit a CAR in there ! HEY ! That's my Beemer !!!
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