August 3rd, 2017, 04:58 PM
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Name: Bill
Location: Port Huron, Michigan
Join Date: Mar 2017
Motorcycle(s): 2007 Kawasaki 250 Ninja, 1982 Honda Ascot FT500
Posts: A lot.
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Originally Posted by CaliGrrl
Lane splitting can be relatively safe, or it can be horrifically danerous. If you let traffic settle down a bit before splitting, keep the speeds manageable (CHP recommends10-15 mph over traffic speeds, which seems reasonable), and keep your eyes open, it's not too bad. By the time traffic gets down to about 30 mph, the lanes are all full and very few people are changing lanes. I'd read an article that found splitting in stop-and-crawl was actually safer than being in the lanes, where you're likely to get squished by a driver not paying attention.
It's that thing where they're looking at their phone or the radio or whatever, and the look forward to see if there's a car there, and a bike doesn't register as something for which they need to stop. By splitting, I'm gone.
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Just be careful! Oh, me, wut I gonna do now.
Bill
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