Auckland's Northern Motorway lanesplit finalist for $50,000 art award!

[surfchick]

Hi all, (esp Big Dave / Kiwifruit / Enigma / Keystone /J Random etc)
A lanesplit motorcycle video artwork with 'unnamed' kiwibiker's- showing twin-channel video recordings of two bikes lanesplitting the Auckland Northern motorway to the CBD - has been nominated as one of four finalists in the country's biggest art award! :Punk:

An excerpt from the lanesplit is here, titled Passing Manoeuvre with Two Motorcycles and 584 Vehicles for Two-Channel Video shown at ST PAUL St, Auckland (19 June – 7 July 2008):
http://www.alexmonteith.com/work_detail.php?id=66

A description of what the art award is (and how the judging works):
http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/industry-news/2010/apr/68823-walters-prize-2010-finalists

[Thaeos]

So lane-splitting supports the arts? Next time you get stopped for it just point them :Police: towards this!

[ManDownUnder]

You bloody LEGEND!!!!!!!! You kept that quiet the other day.

AWESOME amounts of good luck... dinner might be on you next time?? LOL

[surfchick]

I forgot to tell you :innocent: - which was remis as we all know who was the original guinea-pig to sort out the idea of a two bike split to see if the video-side of it worked!:shifty:

In the 1st version over 700 cars were passed and in the second version over 500 cars were passed.

[Bald Eagle]

Awesome video and good luck in the final.

[aprilia_RS250]

So lane-splitting supports the arts? Next time you get stopped for it just point them :Police: towards this!

If you look at image no 8 on http://www.alexmonteith.com/work_detail.php?id=66# you'll clearly see a copper on the slow lane. Notice the bike is overtaking on the left side of the road...

[MSTRS]

Shame that most of the first clip (I didn't watch the 2nd) showed the bikes between a vehicle and a lane marking on the left. This is the ILLEGAL side of lanesplitting. And it's why the rozzers are getting narky with all lanesplitting.
Couldn't the film maker have done everyone a favour and made sure that passing was on the right?
Otherwise, neat idea.

[surfchick]

Point taken re the lane position LHS RHS etc - I must say there was another major hurdle in the work -the cams foreshorten distance-so to see each bike they had to be unnaturally close together..just a matter of a few meters-this made the rear riders job very difficult indeed

[george formby]

Love it. thanks for the post. i saw something in the paper about this but did not think i would see it. Best of luck.

Congestion, Phooey!

[Bad Gixxer]

Awesome in so many ways!!!

[surfchick]

If you look at image no 8 on http://www.alexmonteith.com/work_detail.php?id=66# you'll clearly see a copper on the slow lane. Notice the bike is overtaking on the left side of the road...

only noticed that afterwards! :shifty:

[Big Dave]

We're not worthy, we're not worthy, we're not worthy....

Do you need any judges intimidated? You've seen the way your colleagues step back :-0

[surfchick]

We're not worthy, we're not worthy, we're not worthy....

Do you need any judges intimidated? You've seen the way your colleagues step back :-0

lol - I could invite you to the opening? Or the Kiwibiker enthusiasts... who seem to drop patches - when J Radom did that last time the smoke filled the atrium so thickly that apparently they were 4 seconds from a set of sprinklers turning on in the building... I'll try and find that pic...

[scooute]

Legandary, best of luck to you:first:

[Interceptor]

For those that did not make the art exhibit, a snippet of the video is here:


http://vimeo.com/4778091

Congrats guys!

[MarkH]

Shame that most of the first clip (I didn't watch the 2nd) showed the bikes between a vehicle and a lane marking on the left. This is the ILLEGAL side of lanesplitting. And it's why the rozzers are getting narky with all lanesplitting.
Couldn't the film maker have done everyone a favour and made sure that passing was on the right?
Otherwise, neat idea.

From my experience you just can't do it legally. The cars in the right lane drive to the right of the lane leaving a big gap to their left - this is the safest and easiest place to ride. The cars in the next lane are also driving to far to the right and don't leave enough space to ride to their right within the same lane.

[sleemanj]

If the vehicles are stationary, it's legal to pass on the left... right?

Pretty sure that's what the general consensus comes to in the common garden splitting thread.

[crystalball]

loved watching those cage drivers getting passed.

[MarkH]

If the vehicles are stationary, it's legal to pass on the left... right?

Pretty sure that's what the general consensus comes to in the common garden splitting thread.

If they are stationary then yes, but in the video even though the bikes made the cars look like they were standing still, well they were actually moving. Personally, I am happy with passing moving cars on their left within the same lane - hopefully I don't get penalised by the NZ revenue collectors for it.

[surfchick]

When I was commuting home last night a few riders were splitting the North Western- then cop sirens and gridlock - a lanesplitting rider was hit between the fast lane and medium with lots of utes parked sideways in both lanes... looked like a FZR / 250 ... hope you OK if you are on this forum. Anyone know what happened if he`s alright?

[GOONR]

When I was commuting home last night a few riders were splitting the North Western- then cop sirens and gridlock - a lanesplitting rider was hit between the fast lane and medium with lots of utes parked sideways in both lanes... looked like a FZR / 250 ... hope you OK if you are on this forum. Anyone know what happened if he`s alright?

So that was the reason for all the traffic yesterday, I head up SH1 from Grafton so could see parts of the North Western, nothing moving at all, this was about 19hrs. Hope the poor bugger is Ok.

[Keystone19]

The winner of the award Surfchick has been nominated for will be announced this Friday evening. Fingers crossed!

If you haven't seen the exhibition it's well worth the visit. I managed to pop in last week and really enjoyed seeing it all on the big screen. Brought back a few memories...:whistle: