Do and don'ts of lanespliting

[jrandom]

The worst thing you can do is all of a sudden change your habits.

Seconded. Even though there's a terrible urge to merge back into traffic and whistle innocently into your visor after unexpectedly filtering past the old HP, don't. Just keep going at the same speed.

Particularly if it's Nodman, cos you know the sadistic old bastard is gonna nick you one way or the other, and there's no point looking extra guilty about it.

[NSR-Dan]

hahahaha i have the greatest story lane splitting. i was drivin down the middle and clipped a mirror, then i got stuck at the lights.
Now strange enough the guy i clipped had actually got out of his car and started running after me.
eventully he ran up to me and started getting shiirty about me clipping his mirror, i kept on apologizing and he just stood there like an idiot repeating that same thing over and over again. now honestly i knocked a mirror it wasnt broken or scratched as it was one of those monsterous mirrors on the big 4wd's that all the yuppies drive.
now the funny part. i noticed a group of young guys (this was in otahuhu) looking into his car (he left the door open and the car running) i asked the guy if he had his car running, he just looked at me with a blank face, and soon enough about 3 guys jumped in the car and took off up a side street. i never seen a guys face go that white in a split second.

[XP@]

When splitting through stationary & near stationary traffic in town...

DO watch out for opening doors ar a passenger is being dropped off. on 2 occassions this morning I was left with less than 2m to stop when a passenger decided to get out.

I was lucky I was covering clutch and both brakes, otherwise my new bike would be looking not so new.

[sAsLEX]

I was lucky I was covering clutch and both brakes, otherwise my new bike would be looking not so new.

People are generally nice and squishy, use them to help slow without damaging the bike

[XP@]

People are generally nice and squishy, use them to help slow without damaging the bike

Yes, I agree, but the door can cause a bit of damage to your footpegs and underbelly as you wheely through it. Unless you have the fore-thought to kick it off the hinges before you hit it.

The other option is to detour through the front seet of the car and out through the drivers door. This can get a bit messy if it ain't a soft top with a column shift.

[diggydog]

very good i think i come in this catagroy, i like that about holden & ford they are most likely muffty's

[Freakshow]

Another one is remember that big gap you find in front of trucks is there for a reason, they take longer to stop. And when I come up to the back of the que I wait till everybody has settled and stopped there last thought lane change before I take the middle lane

[Jonty]

What are everyones view on splitting in a single lane two way street? Most mornings I find myself in a line of traffic but the other lane (in the opoosite direction) is clear. Usually I filter down the middle but it is hard to tell if a bus is gonna some the other way on these narrow bloody streets and make a sandwich out of you.

Any dos don'ts for this situation?

[XP@]

What are everyones view on splitting in a single lane two way street? Most mornings I find myself in a line of traffic but the other lane (in the opoosite direction) is clear. Usually I filter down the middle but it is hard to tell if a bus is gonna some the other way on these narrow bloody streets and make a sandwich out of you.

Any dos don'ts for this situation?

Try "Hopping" from one space to the next, make sure you always have somewhere to go if the bus (or fat barina) comes the other way.

You also need to watch out for right turners, if there is nothing coming then they may just decide to cut across your path without warning.

[Gremlin]

Any dos don'ts for this situation?

As XP has said, really have to watch out for turning cars, mind you, this also applies when you are travelling in the slow lane, which hasn't stopped, but the others have. Interesting to see a car right in front of you...

One from this morning... when a bike comes up behind you... would you mind awfully pulling into a lane, so I don't have to split at your speed?? It was unusual, because I came up behind you and you were sitting there, right behind a car straddling 2 lanes, so perhaps you had just had a close shave... and perhaps didn't know I split faster than you, but it would have been nice. A buell I think it was, on the southern.

Ultimately, as much as we do it, cars still don't seem to expect us, so be ultra vigilant.

[NodMan:Me]

DONT - try to keep up with Frosty

I DON'T!!!
(he knows i just wait for him at the next ramp ... eh Frosty!!)

seriously guys its easy ...Just treat every lane as its own single lane road AND then only OVERTAKE vehicles staying within that lane..which ever one it is!!

Dont undertake (unless the other vehicle is completely stationary OR has its right indicator showing that it is about to turn or MOVE to the right)

that way you dont get a piece of paper from me( I can save them up for all those deserving cage drivers) and I dont have to visit ya at hospital or the morgue

[Gremlin]

seriously guys its easy ...Just treat every lane as its own single lane road AND then only OVERTAKE vehicles staying within that lane..which ever one it is!!

It sounds easy, but it ain't. Cagers seem to love to occupy the right hand side of lanes... I swear it.

I figure I'm not aiming to kill myself any time soon, so if there's a huuuge gap in the fast lane, and a couple of mm in the medium lane, I'll use that. I don't need the cagers to account for me. The muppets just have to stay still, use their indicators like they are supposed to, and all will be fine.

[boomer]

lmfao.. Gemlin.. in ur avatar you've cut yaself out then put it further on a lean!!!! sif

[Gremlin]

lmfao.. Gemlin.. in ur avatar you've cut yaself out then put it further on a lean!!!! sif

if it looks like a greater lean then you can thank lazy for me, did it of his own accord, and it looks bloody awesome. I love my avatar

[boomer]

if it looks like a greater lean then you can thank lazy for me, did it of his own accord, and it looks bloody awesome. I love my avatar

it looks ghey and yes theres a huge lean been added, i'm tempted to red rep you for

• being a wanna be
• having a wankerish Gareth_d avatar

so..so..sooooo tempted....

* edit.. fek it.. red rep dispatched