Incredible sight: motorcyclist stationary in traffic jam

*CRASH*
"Sorry mate--I never heard of you"


Postman Pat

 

DaZZa said....

As someone who rarely experiences city traffic, the concept of lane
splitting is an unfamiliar one to me. Sure, I do it around where I live,
but when the only 2 lane road that we have is the highway through town,
and the freeway outside of town, with light traffic, lanesplitting is
hardly a common occurance.

When I last rode to Melbourne, for a protest run through the Citylink
tunnels, I was on the freeway riding with another fellow, I was passed
on both sides by other riders who'd be lanesplitting like water through
a spaghetti strainer. Some of them cut it pretty close too. Even after
all this, those riders were about 10 seconds in front of me when we
arrived at the meeting point.

To me, the "art" of lanesplitting seems to rely on the rider having an
implicit trust that the car/truck drivers around him won't do anything
silly, like changing lanes at the last minute, or drifting over, or
whatever. I'm not sure that I want to accept that level of risk when I'm
riding. But that's me.

But I s'pose that my cautious riding style has seen me have one crash in
28 years of road riding.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 13 May 2004 14:00:56 +1000

I have done some splitting of moving traffic, it's disturbingly easy and
addictive.

And yes, it relies a lot on the people around you just going along in
their lanes like sheep. Or on you being able to realise the one that
won't. Although lanechanging only happens when there's space to change
into, if the traffic's nose to tail, they aren't moving across.

Pick time and place I suppose. There are times I'll do it, but the
incentive has to be strong, and the traffic suitable for the job.

Zebee

 

But you were on a freeway and if you were 10 seconds behind them, it must have
been travelling at good speed... My trip home from work would take less than
15 minutes if there were no other cars on the road and all of the traffic
lights were green. Driving the car home at 7:30am takes me 30 minutes...
riding the bike and being at the front of the queue when traffic lights turn
green and the boom gates lift up saves me about 10 minutes on the trip. 17km
- 22 traffic lights.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

The only problem is, sometimes the cars lanesplit too

-----sharks

 

conehead said....

Is this still current? Recently, Vic road rules were changed and one of
the changes was that peds now have to give way to all vehicular traffic
at roundabouts.

 

"sometimes" ?

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Nev.. said....

That's right, and that was my point. While all these other bikes were
lane splitting, we were not. We still got there around the same time as
them, and without the same risk taking.

Sure, I understand that filtering through slow moving or stationary
traffic's OK. I just have a problem with doing it at speed.

 

Personally I cannot see the point in gettting to work even 1 minute
earlier. That would be 1 more minute I could have spent on the bike.
Almost the same attitude getting home too.

 

Hey I lane split all the time on my beemer. My handlebars are high enough to
clear mirrors, but sometimes the pistons get real close to tintop doors, I
get a bit worried about getting one piston caught up in a wheel arch, or
something. But what the hell, its all part of the fun of riding a bike in
peakhour...

Q

 

what's the quickest way to Northcote?..
Just shoot up Hoddle St.
© Julian Knight.

Joe M.

 

That's about as funny as gunshot wounds...

 

Made me smirk...

Did I ever play you a song by Peril called "Accidentally Hoddle St"?

big (yeah, it came out back when Frente were around...)

 

Me too!
(but Julian Knight is a piece of shit who I'd almost be happy to see
copping a bit of Yank-style interrogation)
Clem

 

there were heaps of those jokes after hoddle street
Q'Where do hoddle street people buy their clothes?
A.Target

That was the least tasteless
there were worse.

--
i might just as well bend over now while the rich, dole bludgers and single
mothers take
turns fist fucking me up the arse!

Corks on a rant

 

Years later, they are always a laugh.

1990, thanks Reg the Phish.

Hammo