Lane Spliting

[vifferman]

Words of wisdom for us all to take home people- isnt vifferman smart !!

If that were true, I wouldn't be guilty of:

• Breaking two of my mirrors and none of anyone else's
• Sideswiping a car by undertaking it when it had its left confirminator on (thank goodness for over-engineered zorsts and armoured kneepads)
• Trying to squeeze through gaps narrower than the cat whiskers - oops - I mean 'mirrors' (thank goodness for armoured kneepads)
• Getting numerous bits of crap in perfectly good tyres from riding in the gutter, including a puncture in a brand new set of Azaros
• Running out of road while filtering, and having to resort to riding on the footpath (three times) and on the grass beside the motorway (once)
• Getting stuck while riding beside the motorway because the tarseal lip was too high to get back up
• Overtaking a U-turning car (D'Oh!!).

Best lanesplitting moment: Squeezing past a parked Volvo, whose driver banged frantically on the window because there wasn't time to wind the window down to tell me off.

[Slingshot]

Actually... just reading that again... So... you're saying someone who has replied to this thread cut you off...

Shit... it wasn't me was it ?

Sedge.

No...not that I'm aware of, all I was saying is that people that have read or posted to this thread should theoretically be more aware now, the comments/thread wasn't directed at any one person.

I might just have saved your life

[sedge]

Heh heh... just paranoia then... I thought I may have cut you off and not even noticed...

That's what happens when you ride a ZZR, the little sports bike guys keep getting stuck in the tread, I have to pick them out when I get home.

Sedge.

[vifferman]

Heh heh... just paranoia then... I thought I may have cut you off and not even noticed...

That's what happens when you ride a ZZR, the little sports bike guys keep getting stuck in the tread, I have to pick them out when I get home.

Sedge.

Yeah, you've got to watch that. And if they're little Italian sports bikes, you need to use something to wash the olive oil off the tyres too.

[jrandom]

And if they're little Italian sports bikes, you need to use something to wash the olive oil off the tyres too.

It's true.

*My* bike leaks teriyaki sauce.

Good thing I didn't buy a Kawasaki, because there's nothing worse than wasabi on the driveway.

[crashe]

Well I must admit that I do check my mirrors, not only for other riders coming up from behind, but also for the cops on bikes and emergancy vehicles as well...... plus if a rider comes up fast behind me I pull in and let them go.... they obviously need to get home much faster then me....

I have come up against some slower riders out there lane splitting.... so if they don't move over then I jump (no not literary) into the other lane and lane split until I get ahead of them.... I do find that most do move over....

They may be new at lane splitting.... just like we were when we all started out riding.... its a confidence thing.... But I have seen a few riders hoon throu lane splitting at a really fast speed.

[vifferman]

But I have seen a few riders hoon throu lane splitting at a really fast speed.

Thats just plain stupid, nowhere to go if things go pear shaped.

[vifferman]

If that were true, I wouldn't be guilty of:

• Breaking two of my mirrors and none of anyone else's
• Sideswiping a car by undertaking it when it had its left confirminator on (thank goodness for over-engineered zorsts and armoured kneepads)
• Trying to squeeze through gaps narrower than the cat whiskers - oops - I mean 'mirrors' (thank goodness for armoured kneepads)
• Getting numerous bits of crap in perfectly good tyres from riding in the gutter, including a puncture in a brand new set of Azaros
• Running out of road while filtering, and having to resort to riding on the footpath (three times) and on the grass beside the motorway (once)
• Getting stuck while riding beside the motorway because the tarseal lip was too high to get back up
• Overtaking a U-turning car (D'Oh!!).

Best lanesplitting moment: Squeezing past a parked Volvo, whose driver banged frantically on the window because there wasn't time to wind the window down to tell me off.

Sounds like your a real disaster zone, viffer.

[vifferman]

Sounds like your a real disaster zone, viffer.

Not at all.
Well... not anything related to that little list.
Apart from breaking mirrors, I've had no real grief while 'lanespliting' [sic].

[RiderInBlack]

the little sports bike guys keep getting stuck in the tread, I have to pick them out when I get home.

Sedge.

Yeah, you've got to watch that. And if they're little Italian sports bikes, you need to use something to wash the olive oil off the tyres too.

It's true.

*My* bike leaks teriyaki sauce.

Good thing I didn't buy a Kawasaki, because there's nothing worse than wasabi on the driveway.

Are. so it's Suzuki Sushi that was on "Roxanne's" tyres not cow shit.

[sAsLEX]

always slow down for a helmet noticed in front, might be someone off here needing a wave!, or they could jump into your lane.

I split every day during uni, gets a little interesting in the wet but.....

Only hit mirrors once coming up from the second exit into the city, guy started tootling and shit shame I was already gone!

Started to hit my elbows, well scrape gently caress, on mirrors as i pass, must be that cat whisker thing

[ktulu]

Those are some very good points viffer man, I will try to remember them next time I am lane splitting..... but if i do I will probably fall of my bike and smash into a car or something because I will be laughing so much

[Eyetie]

I was heading out of Manukau on the Southern M'Way in the left lane (there are three of them), traffic fairly heavy and I was doing 95Km/h all of a sudden I had a bike (sure it was a firestorm) come through between myself and another car, normally I always make room when I am in the cage if a bike is behind me but as the bike would of been doing 140+ did not even know he was there until he went past and f****n close causing me to do a minor swerve thankfully away from him, and my pulse took a minute to return to normal, that sort of riding is definitely not me by any stretch of the imagination and hope whoever it was either is skilled enough (if it is possible to read other drivers minds) to judge cms at speed or realises that riding that close between cars at that speed will end up in some serious hurt one day.

[Coldkiwi]

hmm, 'red sea effect'. Good point. I'm always aware of it when overtaking the slower rider as sometimes cars move over forthem into my way before I get level with the other bike... but it doesn't happen that often. So long as I change lanes back relatively quickly I think the effect is minimised (and if done with a reasonable degree of smoothness and courtesy it prevents many cagey's from getting the shakes)