Lane splitting surprise.

[Luckylegs]

I wish people would stop saying this. Especially riders. Risk of injury if you have an accident may be higher but when performed with due care and attention the risk of having an accident in hte first place is no higher then driving a car.

Thats just patently stupid. Riding involves a machine which would happily fall over when you dont actively stop it doing so. I also dont see too many cars highsiding people...

[Onewheelmotion]

All the time. It's like jousting where I'm from in San Francisco CA. On the street. On the freeway. Idk how many size 12 dents I've had to leave in someone's door because they tried to squeeze me out or purposely swerved at me.

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[swbarnett]

Thats just patently stupid. Riding involves a machine which would happily fall over when you dont actively stop it doing so. I also dont see too many cars highsiding people...

Yes, there is risk involved. I'm not denying that. What I'm saying is that there is no more risk for the the skilled rider than in many other activities that are not seen as dangerous.

I don't deny that there's an initial period (that varies from rider to rider) where the risk is higher than it is for novice car drivers. However, once sufficient skill and the correct attitude is obtained the rider is at no more risk of having an accident than the average car driver.

[Swoop]

Have FB friend who works for Transit NZ... she thinks its fine to impede tailgators or brake chceck them

She sounds like another of the cunt-monkeys who drive in the outer lane and refuse to move left. "Self imposed authoritarian" of personal beliefs but not actual laws.

...but sometimes, when I'm in a bigfuckentruck...

Presumably this is your mitsubishi magna?

[jasonu]

She sounds like another of the cunt-monkeys who drive in the outer lane and refuse to move left. "Self imposed authoritarian" of personal beliefs but not actual laws.

Those cunts are known as self appointed speed police.

[mojo1444]

Yes, there is risk involved. I'm not denying that. What I'm saying is that there is no more risk for the the skilled rider than in many other activities that are not seen as dangerous.

I don't deny that there's an initial period (that varies from rider to rider) where the risk is higher than it is for novice car drivers. However, once sufficient skill and the correct attitude is obtained the rider is at no more risk of having an accident than the average car driver.

Hmmm I think no matter how skilled you are the probability of someone else ruining your day is high on a bike than a car.

Believe it just check YouTube with all the crash & fails most are not even a motorcyclist fault... Reminds me of a funny one I saw months ago... Son gets drop off by his mum where his bike was in the parking lot... 20mints later the same Mom runs into her son's bike at the motorway merging section claiming she didn't see him. The young fella got so mad at his mother for trashing his bike.

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[jafagsx250]

I'm surprised that you are surprised.

It's not some god given right.

I don't ride through town a lot, when I do I am very selective about lane splitting or creeping (as it creeping past a long row of cars on the outside to get to the front).

I've seen some plainly stupid lane splitting by motorcycles while crawling along in my car - activity that pisses me off and I ride! For example the prat with a skull face mask lane splitting and pushing in car mirrors to get through......

While that is a dick move it's not as though they can't just reach over and push it back out again if it's on the drivers side. I personally haven't done it though so it's probably going to annoy more than a few car driver's


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[swbarnett]

Hmmm I think no matter how skilled you are the probability of someone else ruining your day is high on a bike than a car.

I'm talking about the probability of having an accident. Not the level of injury that will likely result.

Believe it just check YouTube with all the crash & fails most are not even a motorcyclist fault...

Most of the ones I've seen, while the other party may be technically legally culpable, the rider was also not giving due care and attention to what was going on around them. I ride with the firm knowledge that the only one looking after me is me, whether I'm in the car or on the bike. This has stood me in good stead so far and I don't feel all that vulnerable.

[Berries]

Believe it just check YouTube with all the crash & fails most are not even a motorcyclist fault...

Who in their right mind is going to post video of their own fuck ups?

[caseye]

Who in their right mind is going to post video of their own fuck ups?

Coming to you live from cassina cam!@#$%^Oh My F...ing g...
You had to ask didn't ewe??????????????

[v twin]

Who in their right mind is going to post video of their own fuck ups?

Paris Hilton a kardasian

[Madness]

Who in their right mind is going to post video of their own fuck ups?

Reminded me of this guy...

[eldog]

Coming to you live from cassina cam!@#$%^Oh My F...ing g...
You had to ask didn't ewe??????????????

Cassina Cam. Another KB thread

from the couch perhaps?

[russd7]

I wish people would stop saying this. Especially riders. Risk of injury if you have an accident may be higher but when performed with due care and attention the risk of having an accident in the first place is no higher then driving a car.

kinda like people saying it is lucky when some one has not binned their bike.

[Berries]

Paris Hilton a kardasian

I'd tap it.