Lane splitting - Accidents

**madmal64** · 14th December 2005, 20:59

Havent touched a thing..... yet! I wanted to last week at the Terrace tunnel. The traffic was at a stop and I was making my way through as usual and a tosser decided to just block my way through. Moved over from the right hand lane and straddled the white lines. I ended up stopping and waiting for a gap and went around him, as I went past down came the passenger window and he gave me his thoughts on my going up the middle while he is stuck in traffic

. I now wish I had re adjusted his mirror

**terbang** · 14th December 2005, 21:24

Lanesplit most days and just recently clipped my left elbo on a mirror, He moved right I misjudged and bang. No damage and I caught his eye and he was cool about it so I moved on.

Got shouted at a few times in Aussie by cage drivers during lane splitting but not seen it here in Kiwi .

**Karma** · 14th December 2005, 21:44

Originally Posted by ajturbo

this one time, on the way to band practice, i tangled with a transhit's mirror.. i don't know if you know how big they are... they are big!! but i still managed to hit it with my mirror!!

Is that deliberate? Someone watching too much American Pie

**Lou Girardin** · 15th December 2005, 07:20

I've clipped a mirror on stationary cars, but nothing in moving traffic.

**raster** · 15th December 2005, 07:34

Nope haven't hit anything, mind you only been splitting car sized gaps since getting new bike(my choice), don't want to add to the scratches.

As long as I'm moving most of the time I'm happy.

Most of my near calls have been while taking up a lane, people tend to be apoligetic once they see(hear) you.

**In The Breeze** · 15th December 2005, 07:48

Have hit several mirrors in the past. A couple of near bad ones but been "lucky" enuff to get away with it. I don't do it these days so much,mostly at the lights.

**warewolf** · 2nd August 2006, 19:19

Forgot I put the side panniers on to go to work one morning, on the Tiger 900 which had wide mounts out past the high-level exhausts. Zapping between the cars, the pair at the front of the queue were a lot closer together. I dragged the panniers along the length of the car to the right, touching the car on the left at several points. I didn't come off but the initial contact sure moved the bike around.

The lady in the car on the right was really snotty about it. There was a black mark the entire length of her grubby white car; it was a smudge that disappeared when touched. The guy in the car on the left couldn't stop laughing.

**riffer** · 2nd August 2006, 22:14

I'm an incorrigible splitter. I would probably bang mirrors at least once or twice a week. I've had cagers pull in front of me on many occasions, and had to slam on the anchors often to avoid collisions.

Only one bad one, a couple of years back on the FZR, when a blind idiot in an SUV with boat trailer changed lanes as I was going through, clipped the bike, sent me flying through 3 lanes of rush hour traffic and completely rooted the front end of the bike. My damage sprained ankle and heamatoma on thigh, new front end for the FZR. And lots of scratches on both me and the bike.

**Bend-it** · 3rd August 2006, 10:49

I'm a nana lane-splitter... about 15km/h quicker than the cars, never above 60, and make sure the gap's nice and wide, otherwise I merge back into traffic.

**Bend-it** · 3rd August 2006, 10:50

Originally Posted by riffer

I'm an incorrigible splitter. I would probably bang mirrors at least once or twice a week. I've had cagers pull in front of me on many occasions, and had to slam on the anchors often to avoid collisions.

Only one bad one, a couple of years back on the FZR, when a blind idiot in an SUV with boat trailer changed lanes as I was going through, clipped the bike, sent me flying through 3 lanes of rush hour traffic and completely rooted the front end of the bike. My damage sprained ankle and heamatoma on thigh, new front end for the FZR. And lots of scratches on both me and the bike.

Yikes!! Did that turn out to be the driver's fault and covered your damage etc?

**Squeak the Rat** · 3rd August 2006, 12:01

Clipped mirror on a stationary car. Was high on drugs at the time, shouldn't have been riding..... No damage, but I exited dodge pretty quick.

(recovering from the flu - was taking some coldrex type stuff)

**aff-man** · 3rd August 2006, 12:23

Originally Posted by XP@

Inspired from speedmedics thread
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=21668

Have you had an accident whilst lane splitting?
If so what happened?

never clipped nobody.... came withing mm a few times while going about 30k *looks for puckering moment smilie)

**madboy** · 3rd August 2006, 13:24

Clipped a couple of wing mirrors with my own, all at low low speed on the Terrace offramp in Wgtn. And I ain't no nana-splitter.

My boot and/or gloves have "clipped" a fair few mirrors, doors and guards though. By the way, the most easily deformable part of a car is the area between front wheel and headlight.

**riffer** · 3rd August 2006, 13:35

Originally Posted by Bend-it

Yikes!! Did that turn out to be the driver's fault and covered your damage etc?

Well it would have if he'd stopped.

Oh well, live and learn. I don't give them the opportunity anymore. Best form of defence and all that ...

Originally Posted by madboy

By the way, the most easily deformable part of a car is the area between front wheel and headlight.

I had some moron come out of Reading Cinema carpark a couple weeks back and drive right into the side of me. Luckily I saw him and nailed it but the footpeg caught the side of the bumper and pulled it off by about a foot. I stopped and went back to abuse hime for it. For some odd reason he decided to hi-tail it out of there.

Funny that ... he must have had an appointment or something he had to keep ...