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> In California, you can also lane split, which makes motorcycles effectively transparent to traffic. Not really a great idea for rider safety though.
by emodendroket 5y ago
> In California, you can also lane split, which makes motorcycles effectively transparent to traffic.
Not really a great idea for rider safety though.
- rolleiflex 5y agoLane splitting is one of the things where it helps to be brutally honest about your skill level, lest nature calls your bluff. I personally only do it if the cars are stopped (i.e. on a red light) and not while anything other than me is in motion, and even that helps a lot.
- kortilla 5y agoAccording to what?
- emodendroket 5y agoData on this is less robust than one would hope, but around a fifth of motorcycle accidents happened while someone was lane-splitting. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2018/02/09/motorcycle-lane-splitting-safe-or-scary https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
- ultrarunner 5y agoEverything I've ever read has said it's about a wash, leaning slightly toward being more safe for riders. It's not safe (or necessary) to sit in traffic and be rear-ended or run over. It's also not safe to create a large speed differential with traffic. That said, it sure makes commuting more reasonable. I'm for it.
- barrkel 5y agoI've filtered past many rear-end accident scenes on my London motorbike commutes. Those commutes would be 2x as long at least if I didn't filter.