Dave wrote on 09/28/22 at 12:33:39:I am not willing to risk my life to get there sooner. Lane splitting is a riding method that I will never use (legal or not).
Car drivers who want to change lanes will be looking at the cars around them - they have no ability to see a motorcycle coming at them between the lanes when the motorcycle is traveling 2-3 times his speed.
Motorcycles are dangerous enough - there is no reason to make it even harder to get somewhere safely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEQen_V-9E4 Good video and he's right, he's going way too fast.
IF he was going the appropriate speed, he would've been able to slow down in 1 car length as it's happened to me many times.
So it's happened to me many times... and you say it's dangerous so why do it?
Just as many times I've been pushed out of the lane I was traveling in, following traffic.
So no matter where you are in the road, it's dangerous.
But for every 10mph faster than traffic, subtract 1 car length of safety buffer.