Ahhhh Lanesplitting

I've seen worse on roads than dumb driving but still consider
lanesplitting one of the safer maneuvers in heavy traffic because why
would a car driver swerve if they are statinary or next to another.
count the seconds you are actually lanesplitting between the cars
more or less a second if that.
Do you do assess the situation ahead?
do you look for the driver's eyes in their mirror?
Do you scan?
I was more or less lanesplitting in very heavy traffic when I first
started riding.
Albeit I also had been driving more than 15 years so i have a feel for
the traffic.
Lanesplitting doesn't worry me.
Stop signs, roundabouts intersections etc do.

 

What were the circumstances of these accidents?

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

I've been hit twice while sitting stationary in traffic, never had a
problem while lanesplitting. Was lucky the first hit wasn't a serious
injury, now you tell me why lanesplitting is dangerous again?

Cheers

 

Good to see you(?) using indicators to change lanes at the end of that!

Moike

 

Good to see you(?) using indicators to change lanes at the end of that![/QUOTE]

I saw a guy on a CBR954 do that on Sunday, he wheelied about 2 km (all
the way up the hill past the Mt Kuringai freeway exit on the way to
Berowra), and correctly and legally indicated both lane changes. I had
to pull up next to him at the top of the hill and give him a round of
applause

big

 

And anyway, I prefer "Mobile Organ Donor".

-----sharks

 

I haven't got a bike licence or a bike yet, but one thing i've decided is a
very loud exhaust is a definite safety feature!

 

Pfffttttt, if you think I'm gonna give my organs to some queenslander just
'cos I turn up my toes there, you've got another thing coming....

Stu
Did someone say 'harsh week'??

Give my head to a tasmanian, they've got a higher chance of needing a spare
one.

 

if you ride a bike in a manner such that you rely on others hearing your
loud exhaust, you have an interesting time ahead.

a) if they can run into a fire truck with lights and sirens, they're not
going to see you.

b) if they do hear it, they only hear it after you have gone past, and
all that does is antagonise them. It does not do to antagonise morons
with two ton weapons of mass destruction.

c) If you think the loud exhaust makes you safer, and act on it, you
will be putting yourself in unnecessary danger.

There are much more effective ways of avoiding regrettable incidents.

Moike

 

My apologies, I forgot. It's harsh week.

**** off newby.

Moike

 

If you are Australian, then you, like the rest of us, are surely temporary.
Unless you are suggesting some deal negotiated with a higher power?

Mike

 

When I started riding again a few years back, my brother took me aside
and said to me:
"Right, now I want you to stay off the booze if you're going to be
riding."
"Why thanks Tim," I replied, "It's so nice of you to be concerned
about my welfare."
"Welfare schmelfare!" he said, "My liver's about fucked, and this way
yours will still be in good shape when you donate it to me in a few
years."

I resolved on the spot to ensure that my liver will be in about the
same condition as his when he inherits it. ;-)


BTH

 

What, Howard and Bush have already signed the deal that make Australia
the 52nd state then?

(or when you said "If you are Australian", did you mean "If you are
human, rather than dumb-as-an-immortal-rock like your posts make you out
to be")

big

 

Why do they have horns on bikes if they don't help people notice you?
Aren't you relying on people noticing you by having it?

Why do they tell you when learning to ride to wear bright coloured cloths if
being noticed isn't important?

I take it you have never had a harley overtake you. You would have to be
deaf not to hear that comming

I know ever since I got that noisy exhaust I've been riding like a dickhead
"acting on it putting myself into unnecessary danger". I think that first
thing I did was mono down Finders Street in peak hour. Seriously my riding
hasn't changed, the only thing that has is the number of cars cutting me
off.

Yes like rider training and experience but anything that helps a learner get
underway and gets them noticed while learning has to be a good thing.

 

Silence vile merchant!

 

<snip>

Our sincere sympathy. It was obvious that there was a problem, but I didn't
realise it was so serious.

 

Or just swap 'see' to 'hear' in:

"Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see
you in order for you to be safe -- to see you, and to give a **** --
you've already blown it."
-- Neal Stephenson, 'Zodiac'.

-----sharks

 

I wouldn't rely on my horn even working, much less alerting any
dozy bastard to my presence. If someone pulls out across my
path, I reach for the brakes not the goddamn horn.

Because they are fools, and they have to keep talking or their
brains start working.

-----sharks

 

How about I just ride the same way I would without a loud exhaust, except
with one?

How about I just ride the same way I would without a loud exhaust, except
with one?

So what!

 

I still convinced that Bush thinks we are Austrians who speak American with
funny accents.