Lane Splitting

**The Stranger:Me** · 23rd September 2005, 17:40

I don't lane split on the motorway. When on the bike I am never in much of a hurry, quite the opposite. I am happy for the trip to stretch on a bit.

But hey now I can see the excitement. Who had the exciting ride home along the north western motorway?

I was doing 30kmh in my cage (unfortunately) and someone went past me splitting at about 3x that pace.

Maybe a GN???

Had close calls with 2 cars that I saw.
Must have been quite a rush tempting fate like that.

**XTC** · 23rd September 2005, 17:58

It was me..... Damn throttle stuck on again. I tried to slow down by steering towards 2 cars but they moved out of my way....

**madmal64** · 23rd September 2005, 19:33

I do but only the the traffic is really slooooow. At 30km's yep I would. I traveled by cage all last week and it took me an extra 15mins each way. I hate traffic and to me lane splitted isnt a thrill but something better than sitting in traffic

**Gixxer 4 ever** · 23rd September 2005, 19:44

Originally Posted by XTC

It was me..... Damn throttle stuck on again. I tried to slow down by steering towards 2 cars but they moved out of my way....

**crashe** · 23rd September 2005, 21:08

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

Thread number 72 on lane splitting/filtering

Are you sure its number 72.... I thought it was much higher than that.

**ManDownUnder** · 23rd September 2005, 21:50

Wonder if that's the same count as the threads on injuries...:spudwhat:

**Deano** · 23rd September 2005, 22:04

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

Thread number 72 on lane splitting/filtering

Is someone a bit tichy lately......you really need to get back on a bike dude.

I bet the bikers leaving Galveston are glad they are on bikes - that's one hell of a lane split outta town.

**fishb8nz** · 24th September 2005, 00:41

I'd not long bought a RAV4, with non-standard mags when I went into the garage to go out and saw i had a puncture. Bugger, there's never a good time for a puncture but this was as good as it gets. Unfortunately the wheel brace wouldn't fit inside the nut recess, so I had to go out and buy a new one.
My sis-in-law was visiting and she was driving my former Corona. I borrowed it to buy a new wheelbrace. This was a car I'd had for 6 years and felt at home in it. As I approached a roundabout along Te Rapa, I managed to catch my foot onto a rubber mat, that was new to me, and lifted it up. The mat fell back and unbeknown to me, covered the pedals.
Both lanes were stopped at the roundabout and had 4 or 5 cars in them. I went to hit the brake and felt a flat surface - no brake pedal, clutch or throttle!! Absolute panic. I aimed at the gap between the two lanes, still doing about 25 km and went clear through and into a gap on the roundabout without hitting anything. Whoa, was I lucky! whenever I arrive at that roundabout, especially when there's cars in both lanes I'm still amazed how the feck I got through as there's often a gap too small for a motor bike. God knows what those people at the roundabout thought I was doing.
Now that's lane splitting!

**jrandom** · 24th September 2005, 07:30

Originally Posted by Deano

I bet the bikers leaving Galveston are glad they are on bikes - that's one hell of a lane split outta town.

hell yeah, saw the freeway photos and had exactly the same thought.

imagine all the irate texican cagers as the bikes breeze past.

**SARGE** · 24th September 2005, 07:33

Originally Posted by Fish

hell yeah, saw the freeway photos and had exactly the same thought.

imagine all the irate texican cagers as the bikes breeze past.

gotta love them big US Freeways.. you could lanesplit on a Road King

**Mattyc** · 24th September 2005, 07:54

yep id say the bike shops will be sold out of bikes

fuck being over there tho, sux to be them, i think ill stay in nz :P

Least this town wasnt built below sea level (WTF who in their right mind would do that)

**Ixion** · 24th September 2005, 09:32

Originally Posted by Mattyc

yep id say the bike shops will be sold out of bikes

fuck being over there tho, sux to be them, i think ill stay in nz :P

Least this town wasnt built below sea level (WTF who in their right mind would do that)

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They didn't, it sunk

**outlawtorn** · 24th September 2005, 09:55

more often than not you'll find the noobs splitting at a faster pace.

It isn't a generalisation, but most of the noobs feel indestructible, I've seen it myself many times on the motorway and was guilty of it myself until I came of second best and binned.

The only thing we can do is talk to noobs and tell them to take it easy, pass on some experience, I wish I had.

**pyrocam** · 24th September 2005, 10:00

it might have been me
as surfchick puts it

'big guy on a small big'

and the lady down the road

'ohh yes that little blue bike'

(nb im not actually big I just have large gear)

edit:
no it wasnt if it was yesterday. I was at work getting pissed