Tell us how you really feel fwbulldog!

that said I do agree with you, but I do prefer splitting at a speed of "reasonable and prudent." also filtering is a hard yes and should be legal nationally today.

I'll filter very slowly and methodically, as long as the light is red and vehicles I'm passing are stopped, but I won't split. 40% of motorists don't know how to drive, 60+% are assholes, and most are barely paying attention to their own vehicles now days, let alone others around them.

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Lane splitting actually makes a lot of sense once you get over the pissy little bitch inside of you that can't stand to see ANYBODY get one car length in front of you for ANY reason.

Wonder how many of the 32 no votes in the poll are from people that don't ride and don't want anyone getting in front of them in traffic, regardless of how efficient it makes traffic flow.

With the number of inattentive drivers I routinely observe I think it's too dangerous. What makes it too dangerous are the car operators and the result of motorcycle wrecks on the human body.

I don’t currently ride a bike and haven’t for years. I see way too many drivers who are completely oblivious to what is going on around them, often because they have their head up their cell phone. When driving my eyes scan left side mirror, in front, gauges, in front, right side mirror, repeat. I try to maintain a picture in my mind of where everyone is around me and how that is changing (relative movement). I’ll typically see the lane splitter coming in enough time to shift to the opposite side of the lane to give them more room.

I don’t have any problem with folks doing it, it’s legal here and they’re not hurting me if they’re making better time than I am. I do worry for them though ‘cause there are way too many zombies on the road.

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Originally posted by mrprovy:
I'll filter very slowly and methodically, as long as the light is red and vehicles I'm passing are stopped, but I won't split. 40% of motorists don't know how to drive, 60+% are assholes, and most are barely paying attention to their own vehicles now days, let alone others around them.

^^ THIS...And ALL of what 'fwbulldog' posted!

The worse case of lane splitting I’ve ever encountered is in Rome. When you pull up to a light literally dozens of Vespa’s fill in the gaps between cars and when the light turns green you have to wait until they pass as there isn’t room to drive.

When the topic of lane splitting comes up, I'm always reminded of the time when I was a kid riding my bike full speed down a hill on my street when a man opened his car door as I was passing. I slammed hard and got pretty bruised up.
I see far too many folks opening their car doors when going slow or stopped for any number of reasons. If you lane split enough around here, you will pay the price at some point.

Seems incredibly dangerous to me. I’m not a motorcycle guy, but I just watched it happen yesterday and I’m thinking to myself this guy is really putting his life in danger assuming that the person driving that car isn’t playing on their phone and going to swerve into him at the last second.

Not lane splitting, but I get a chuckle watching the bike riders doing 60-70 mph wheelies on the Baltimore beltway. Karma's waiting for ya.

Id be to worried about the dude who is stuck in traffic every day. You know, the one who plans ahead and opens his door to dump his jug of piss!

Illegal in Michigan and as HRK said a Harley bagger aka Geezer Glide isn’t conducive to it either.

Even if it was legal I’d say “nope”……

I don't ride motorcycles but I'll let them split lanes legal or not.

Just the idea of the mass of a car compared to a motorcycle makes any collision between the two unfair. I move to whichever side gives more room to the lane splitter.

When I'm behind a motorcycle, I follow farther back than I would a car.

Rolling through on wide shoulders sure but not between lanes.

I used filter on my FJ1200 in Chicago when I lived in Chicago. I paused as I was passing an officer once and asked him if it was OK, he asked if I had room, I said yes, and he said he didn’t have a problem with it. I can’t remember if that was on Belmont or Irving Park.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

When I'm behind a motorcycle, I follow farther back than I would a car.

As a motorcycle rider, I appreciate that.

In the conditions of the OP, I don't mind it. The ones doing it at highway cruising speeds i disagree with, at least here in Houston.

The wider line for the HOV in CA where most seem to split, makes more sense.

I don't have a bike in the garage currently, could see doing it on the Vulcan S, less so on the bigger Scout.

I split lanes almost every time I ride. Freeway and surface streets. It's one of the (many) reasons to ride a motorcycle in California.

I've been riding off and on most of my life. No lane splitting allowed in Florida although you wouldn't know it by watching traffic here. I don't and wouldn't the way people drive here, changing lanes unexpectedly and opening doors in traffic at lights. I've handled a few crashes with bikes that have tried.

Utah just legalized it, guess enough Cali imported motorcycle riders are in SLC now LOL

https://www.cyclenews.com/2019...ycle-lane-splitting/