All that will change when you get your sports bikeOriginally Posted by Katiepie
Watchful Old Bird
All that will change when you get your sports bike
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Hey while we're on the topic - what is the legality of riding ON the line ? Yes it is bumpy running over the cats eyes, but is it like tennis where on the line is in, or rugby where on the line is out ? (I hope I got that analogy right)
Legal conundrum ?
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God's Evil Twin
its like football the wheel has to be over the line to count as out... pfft tennis, no-one watches tennis
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If I'm correct, the whole of your bike needs to be to the left of the line. so even if it's just your right bar over then you're buggered legally.
Hardcore Biker
Lanesplitting is the difference between a 60 minute ride or a 20 minute ride to work.
I do it every day and usually pass 2 or 3 cops every week.
They've never even taken a second look at me.
Forum whore
Katiepie has a point - to ride within one's envelope.
As other ex London DR's here would probably testify, lane splitting was an art form there and I saw remarkably few accidents especially considering the density of traffic. But - there a bike owns the road (aside from black cabs, buses, artics, surprised tourists, the Queen etc) My filtering however, came down a notch weekends when the traffic was less disciplined and certainly here where the traffic is less disciplined by a number of degrees, plus an increased desire for self preservation in my antiquity.
Mind you sometimes there is the temptation to get an old CX500 with a bungied topbox and er well have some fun.
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I lanesplit every morning and evening.
L plate attached and all. Passed the police on several occasions and no worries.
Some lanesplitters in Wellington are right terrible weaving all over the road.
I try to stay on the left, but in most instances it is not possible.
One thing I have to stop doing is overtaking cars going down the Aotea offramp.
Waits for the "Shouldn't lane split on a "L" plate" brigade...
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I'm not following this...
You mean in the left lane, or the left of the lane?
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
God's Evil Twin
Why? its the onramp you gotta watch out for at the mo
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...or left of the lane divider? (Which means on the right of the cars in that lane, which'd be OK).
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But WHOLE bike to the left of the line? Not many times that wil happen...)
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
Hardcore Biker
Was on Stanley street in Aucks ,heading to the motorway southbound and splitting the lane , I was about 4 cars back and the lights turned green , so accelerated to get to the front and get away (dumbass), and car at the front of the grid was Captain POPO, got a ticket for unsafe lane change, $150, (which I deserve).
But as for every other time, Ive passed the POPO and never been ticketed( at a safe and accepted speed) , but I was`nt trying to do warp factor I`m getting the outta here.
So if your`e gonna split , do it slowly and safely.
Blowin up bikes since ages ago
Sorry man, I find the FXR quite daunting. Haven't quite got the knack of it yet....
Do you travel on the motorway in the morn? North or South and what time?
I start work at 6.30am just so I can avoid the traffic, IMO there are a hell of alot of bad road users in Wellys, including pedestrians and cyclists, must be something in the wind...!
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Forum whore
Last week stopped at the basin reserve lights (the ones intersecting vic tunnel) and two cars passed shooting the red, one a black ute going up to gov house. Seems normal in these parts so if any revenue collection seems due the this would be a good place to start. I'll send a note to the WCC to add to their Manners Bus Lane "good idea at the time' pile.
Filtering assumes vehicles ahead behave in predictable manners. There are a lot of 'tricks' to pick up. When a DR it took until Mon afternoon to become re aclimatised for filtering after the weekend layoff - thats 4/5 hours london riding retraining the intuition. That was despite riding 10/12 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year with most of them in the wet or it felt like it anyway!
When I see some riders filtering they might get away with certain habits once, maybe a hundred times, but one day their number will be up sure as night follows day or bears shitting in the forest.
L-Plate Rider
ACTUALLY this was in nearly stopped traffic and I was merely just shimmying my way to the front of the traffic lights when the red and blues started flashing! SoHey grease girl, what do you ride in welly? Brutale? I think I saw you splitting earlier this week....and followed you into town on the RC51.
The reason I say this is that I can see why they ticketed you
I've been told by some unnamed individuals who have been pulled over by the same cop that he is wanker, he wasn't so bad to me, he actually talked to me about how car drivers are so ignorant they don't even notice the biker cops, it was his mate that was the grumpy one.
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L-Plate Rider
Hey Katie I see you're coming in for a service next week, be sure to pop in and say HIII!!!Sorry to hear you got a ticket chicky. And I have also witnessed cops giving one bike a ticket for it, but not the next rider that they see doing it.
You are a hot girl on a bike, and sure catch attention as you ride home. There are many heads that turn as you go past (take that as a compliment from another female rider). Perhaps this particular cop was going to take any oppertunity to pull you over, compared to the next rider? Yes, long shot a know, but one way of looking at it.
Oh and the cop fined me $150 bucks so I would have thought if he was thinking like men do then he would have given me a naughty slap on the wrist (or ass hehehe) and let me off the fine, damn I knew I should have taken my helmet off!! Hahaha
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