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We are all used to it here. Almost everyone scoots over a bit to give extra room for the bikes. The thing that drives me nuts is people that want to turn right try and do it way before the dotted line effectively corking the bike lanes.
Only for people who really believe nothing can ever go wrong. Compare riding in a 12 foot wide lane and how much margin for error that provides, versus riding in the 3 or 4 foot gap between two cars neither of whose drivers is expecting a motorcycle to come up between them at high speed. You're leaving yourself absolutely zero possibility for escape or even scrubbing off speed to minimize the damage. That's violating rule number one of proper driving.
Very very stupid. If you don't ride with "how can this go badly wrong" running in your brain at all times, you have no business being on a motorcycle.
I work with the fire department. A recent call was motorcyclist driving like this that clipped the concrete jersey barriers that line the side of the road. He hit the wall, lost his helmet, like that would of done him any good, and was then run over by a dump truck.
Only for people who really believe nothing can ever go wrong. Compare riding in a 12 foot wide lane and how much margin for error that provides, versus riding in the 3 or 4 foot gap between two cars neither of whose drivers is expecting a motorcycle to come up between them at high speed. You're leaving yourself absolutely zero possibility for escape or even scrubbing off speed to minimize the damage. That's violating rule number one of proper driving.
Very very stupid. If you don't ride with "how can this go badly wrong" running in your brain at all times, you have no business being on a motorcycle.
Like people failing to pay attention at a stop sign or red light, and "rear ending" whoever is in front of them? Potentially deadly for someone on a cycle. I don't live in a lane-splitting state, but do believe it's safer-when done in a sane manner. Get out of those blind spots and danger zones as much as possible. "Filtering" to the front of a mass of cars at a light and getting out of the mob is safer than traveling with them. I've driven in CA on business trips (not on a bike) and saw it done, safely and respectfully. That includes not blowing by cars with a 50 mph speed difference.
I work with the fire department. A recent call was motorcyclist driving like this that clipped the concrete jersey barriers that line the side of the road. He hit the wall, lost his helmet, like that would of done him any good, and was then run over by a dump truck.
I rented a motorcycle in San Francisco and split lanes while riding there. It worked so well that when I got back I reached out to my state representative and got him to craft a bill to legalize the practice in Minnesota. As expected the bill went nowhere.
Lane splitting is great if done safely. I'd rather be in between cars or at the front of a stop light than behind a car and getting rear ended by an inattentive driver.
As for why do motorcyclists get to cut through traffic and get to their destinations faster? Well it's because we have to put up with idiots in cars trying to kill us.
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