Lane Splitting gone bad

[azoomm]

In this case, he was riding the line. Meaning, he wasn't in either lane. There is no law that allows lane splitting - there just isn't a lane against lane sharing (like there is in every other state). Key is, you need to be sharing a lane not dodging in and out of the lane (or not in a defined lane).

True - the minivan shouldn't have crossed the line. Ever.

[askmrjesus]

I blame the camera.

Why is it that nearly every time some fucking yahoo puts a camera on his bike, he ends up on his lips?

I lived in LA for a long time, and split lanes on a daily basis. I actually preferred it to "normal" traffic, (less chance of taking a Buick up your ass that way). Yeah, obviously the van was in the wrong, but it's California for fuck sakes, you have to expect that shit. His speed may have been a tad high, but not so much that he couldn't have avoided that crash, if he didn't suck at lane splitting.

The key to lane splitting is to watch for gaps in the flow. If a gap opens up, there is a 99% chance that some impatient motherfucker is going to try to fill it with his car. Even if they do check their mirror first, there's still a good chance they aren't going to see you in time, because they're so goddamn desperate to make eight feet of progress in a twenty mile commute. When you see a gap opening up, that's the time you roll off the throttle slightly, and get ready to dynamite your brakes.

Lane splitting is serious business. It does not lend itself well to inattentiveness, and videos of how cool you are.

JC

[LOZ]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Lane splitting is serious business. It does not lend itself well to inattentiveness, and videos of how cool you are.

JC

Jesus Christ has fucking spoken!

[Smittie61984]

I've never seen the full vid. He smacked the hell out of that van with the broken forks.

He didn't seem too unreasonable fast to me. Camera quality kind of sucks and was choppy so it may have appeared to be faster. If anyting if he had been gloing slower he might have nailed the very back of the van.

I'd lane split in Atlanta but here in Atlanta they don't give a fuck if you have red or blue flashing lights. All they care about is wether moving over for a firetruck, ambulance or cop will benefit them. If not it's up to the paramedics/firefighters to figure something out. I've seen cars get on the asses of ambulances for going too slow.

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

I've never seen the full vid. He smacked the hell out of that van with the broken forks.

He didn't seem too unreasonable fast to me. Camera quality kind of sucks and was choppy so it may have appeared to be faster. If anyting if he had been gloing slower he might have nailed the very back of the van.

I'd lane split in Atlanta but here in Atlanta they don't give a fuck if you have red or blue flashing lights. All they care about is wether moving over for a firetruck, ambulance or cop will benefit them. If not it's up to the paramedics/firefighters to figure something out. I've seen cars get on the asses of ambulances for going too slow.

if he BROKE the forks... he was going too fast... IMO

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by ebbs15

if he BROKE the forks... he was going too fast... IMO

He was on a Katana. Probably held together with crazy glue.

Again probably faster than he should have been going (Probably 25-30mph with traffic flowing between 0-10mph) but I don't think it's that bad.