beansbaxter
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posted June 18, 2005 11:21 AM
This is why we need Lane Splitting!
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Just Joy
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posted June 18, 2005 01:46 PM
Don't know how it is in your neck of the woods.....but around here, most drivers think that signaling is an "option".....and lane jumping is a sport......so, lane splitting..no thanks.
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pdb1964
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posted June 19, 2005 09:59 PM
I was nervous just watching
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eastbaydave
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posted June 20, 2005 06:23 AM
Looks like a normal commute around here...
Although his "Delta" closing speed was way to high at times; if someone tired to jump a lane when they are going 5mph & he's going 70+, he'd have no chance of avoidance. In this area, "lane-sharing" is allowed- but at the speeds he was going the CHP would consider some of that reckless driving...
I do it all the time; but he was taking some BIG chances at times I wouldn't take...
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swft
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posted June 21, 2005 04:55 AM
Kept waiting for the wreck...
Driver education is the big part of ever making lane splitting work.
Which is why it will never pass in Washington state.
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k bryant
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posted June 21, 2005 01:53 PM
Basically agree with Dave. Other than the insane speed at times, pretty normal stuff. Come on swft, you got some exposure to it down here... 
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worm~hole
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posted June 22, 2005 01:00 PM
 Edited By: worm~hole on 22 Jun 2005 14:00
...not normal when he makes that right-turn following that black MBZ AND passes it on its right against the curb...imho, this video with its lame background music does nothing but prove what an idiot the rider is splitting lanes at those types of speeds, not to mention the straight speeds IN MODERATE TO HEAVY TRAFFIC...its stupid riding, plain and simple...splitting lanes can and should be done safely...its apparent that the rider puts way too much trust in other motorists using the roadways...way, way too much...and before any of you boooo me off of this sopabox, this is not the cop talking...its the good common sense street rider talking (and I'm assuming its the majority of you), but one who suffers the stigma of 'those idiot Ninja riders' because of what appears to be irresponsible riding such as you've just seen....now where's my donut?????
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beansbaxter
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posted June 22, 2005 01:55 PM
if you visit ozzy and i in spokane, i'll buy ya any flavor of krispy kreme...have u booked ur flight yet?
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worm~hole
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posted June 22, 2005 07:46 PM
...maybe in the late fall before the weather gets really nasty.....gotta visit brutha dino, too!
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vozizm
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posted June 23, 2005 06:36 AM
damn..that was wild... i to kept waiting for the wreck
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aliveagain
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posted June 23, 2005 02:54 PM
Seemed like kilometers to me.That pass on the inside of the right hand turned could of turned into a real dumb move.
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extremelean
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posted June 24, 2005 06:31 PM
YESSS....that is reading KMH ......NOT MPH.....still a little fast for my taste.
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jonwright
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posted June 29, 2005 11:12 AM
Yup. Too fast for me to battle with cages. Bikes, okay. Cages? No.
And I was trying to read if it was KMH, I figured it was. Sounds good to me. Going 100 MPH where he was...didn't look like it.
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Dandy D
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posted June 30, 2005 11:04 AM
You guys realize that probably every cager he passed was swearin' up a storm at him cause ya know he scared the crap out of them. They have no way of knowing he's coming up behind them. Yeah I was waitng for just one cager to switch lanes if front of him. Amazing that it didn't happen!
Reminds me of a recent 'drive' I took to Kelowna with my wife. We left a movie theater and two Bastards, yep one rider calling another a bastard because of their complete and utter disregard of anyone else on the road, ride up behind us. These nuts decide to pull wheelies off the light while behind other vehicals (read me and my wife and a couple of other cages) with nowhere to go except between us and another guy. They dropped the wheeies just before actually getting between us. Scared the crap out of my wife me too really. And of course they hit warp speed heading down Harvey Rd (hwy 97). One guy with a red helmet, black gear and a black gixxer, can't remember the other guy - shock maybe!?.
Anyway these guys were a total embarassment to me for the sake of riders in general. Bad rep...no wonder with twerps on the road like these two. Lane splitting maybe okay if used properly but this is an example of what can (will/does) go wrong. If it was possible to find them I would have rip their bikes apart or ran over them. They don't deserve to be on the road. So all this anger from one rider towards another....so what do you think Joe cager feels.
Sorry about this rant but I was so pissed off and angry - just unbelievable.
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frEEk
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posted July 18, 2005 06:59 PM
couldnt agree more Dandy... keep that shit for when there is noone around (or almost noone). lack of respect for other users of and near the road, including my pet peeve of the loud exaust issue, jsut gets me riled up instantly. unfortuantely that attitude seem to enjoy a monopoly among bikers in general. so many of us seem to think we have more right to the road than anyone else.and it seems noone has heard of the "high road" either. i'm not perfect myself of course, but at least i try to be considerate of others.
but i am defintiely a huge fan of responsible lane splitting. how many times on the trip to laguna was i stuck in stoppped or crawling traffic in the boiling heat with both my biek and myself wantin to die had we sat in traffic. fortuantely lane sharing is legal in cali (tho imho the conditions for it being allowed should be more accomodating), so we actually got somewhere, if slowly, instead of having the bikes overheat. passing still traffic at 15mph may not be flying, but it's WAY better than 0.
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