Splitting headaches

[Edbear]

Please, please, slow down when lane splitting! I am still seeing bikers giving themselves zero margin for error when splitting.
It's not the overall speed, it's the speed differential.

What is especially concerning is the number of bikes displaying L plates doing the highest speeds. Yesterday, while doing around 20km/h in heavy traffic, with vehicles changing lanes frequently and suddenly, an L-plater sped through at about 60km/h or more.

You are giving yourselves no chance and hitting the side of a car, even a glancing blow with your mirror or especially your handlebar can have very serious consequences.

[Scubbo]

agreed, especially with a lot of fresh off the boat, borrowing their brothers van driving on a learners license types out on the roads thinking even if they see you coming they have a right to move into you because the middle isnt a lane bro....

[AllanB]

We don;t get a lot of splitting in Christchurch but in morning/evening traffic rushes centerline or inside passing is common. I watched a guy a week or so back fatting along the centreline and almost run into a pedestrian island due to speed/attention/space. He just made it.

It was quite amusing. Expensive bike too.


And the guy on a green Kawasaki Z something something zipping along - I mainly notice the lack of a rear number plate as you passed me on the inside .... probably get away with it if a cop was in the traffic train as he/she would be stuck.

Plus - it's Christmas traffic from now on. And that sucks arse double time.

[nzspokes]

This is something I have noticed as well more of late. And some of them are fair moving.

One thing I have noted with them is helmet Go Pros.

[rastuscat]

We don;t get a lot of splitting in Christchurch .....................

Have a ride on the Northern Motorway dude. Lane splitting happens most days, sometimes okay, sometimes ridiculous.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I have a standing appointment across town at 5.30 on a Wednesday. I bring the motorbike to work that day. My self imposed rules for splitting are: I only do it if the traffic is stopped. If we are moving even at a crawl I dont bother. Cycle lanes are good to split in. I am a cyclist as well so I tell them to go fuck themselves if they give me shit - very rarely. I would rather be in the opposite lane (i.e. not between two lanes going the same way) because I have space to my right and not many people turn right. And I am vigilant as I know how to be. Full arse pucker, covering the brake, EXPECTING Some cunt to try and fuck my day up.

I also used to commute in Wellington and that was intense some days.

[rastuscat]

Cycle lanes are good to split in.

And when they write you a legitimate ticket for Unauthorised Use Of A Special Vehicle Lane you can pop into KB and start a thread about revenue collecting, quotas and how cops should get a real job.

[mrchips]

Same ol same ol, every year.....

Summer comes around, these crazies wheel their show ponies out of hibernation & wobble through traffic to split everything in their path in any available space (they're not fussy) at warp speed & piss off all the cages.... in the weekends they head for the hills & crash

Winter comes around, they go back into hibernation & the regular m/c commuters are left with a bunch of peed off anti-biker cagers & big juicy ACC premiums

Happens every year .. ho hum

[HenryDorsetCase]

And when they write you a legitimate ticket for Unauthorised Use Of A Special Vehicle Lane you can pop into KB and start a thread about revenue collecting, quotas and how cops should get a real job.

You'd have to fuckin' catch me first copper!

[Luckylegs]

Oh thank christ (ha- see what i did there ed) youve raised this. Ive just been reflecting on the terribly high number of deaths we've been seeing reported as being attributed to bikes splitting lately

Oh wait... hold on.

Go back to your knitting gents. Theres nothing to see here!

[nzspokes]

Oh thank christ (ha- see what i did there ed) youve raised this. Ive just been reflecting on the terribly high number of deaths we've been seeing reported as being attributed to bikes splitting lately

Oh wait... hold on.

Go back to your knitting gents. Theres nothing to see here!

Pro tip, not all crashes are reported and not all lead to death.

Ive seen 3 busted up bikes parked on the side of the motorway recently.

[jafagsx250]

I have noticed that I go a bit fast while splitting so I am slowing down. Now impose rules of if the traffic is going 60 km per hour I don't split and only 20 km per hour faster. Seems an acceptable compromise

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[Luckylegs]

Pro tip, not all crashes are reported and not all lead to death.

Ive seen 3 busted up bikes parked on the side of the motorway recently.

No shit sherlock. Not all busted up bikes parked on the side of the motorway were splitiing either.

I look forward to your response telling me that the three bikes have previously been seen splitting at ridiculous speeds

[pritch]

Plus - it's Christmas traffic from now on. And that sucks arse double time.

Good thought. I'll make allowance for idiots to a greater extent than normal.

[babysteps]

And when they write you a legitimate ticket for Unauthorised Use Of A Special Vehicle Lane you can pop into KB and start a thread about revenue collecting, quotas and how cops should get a real job.

Brougham st would be a field day for your ex colluges, especially the douchebag on the old Ducati. Oh and the kid in school uniform on a scooter messaging on his phone while riding. I admire his multitasking but he is going to end up under a truck