Lane splitting

[Me_No_Money]

Originally posted by Friday13@February 23, 2007 05:23 pm

A rider must always be more alert and decisive than other road users. Judgement is very important as there is no hard and fast rule on how we should ride - as long as we stay within the laws. Never heard that lane splitting is an offence... Always sees uncle sammies doing it... The enforcers are the role models bah...

I do split and sometimes do follow behind too.

Here's what I feel.

When splitting, do it at a safe speed and always have an escape route. Be ready for evasive manovre and use your lights to your advantage...

When following, keep a safe distance but not to safe until cars start coming in front of you and do e-brake. Be ready to stop anytime and if any car behind you tail gate you, then it is lane splitting time!

The bottomline is - When you ride, dun dream! 100% attention. Dun look at XMMs, look at nice cars and look for inspiration for 4D...

agree wth u

[iskzer]

A rider must always be more alert and decisive than other road users. Judgement is very important as there is no hard and fast rule on how we should ride - as long as we stay within the laws. Never heard that lane splitting is an offence... Always sees uncle sammies doing it... The enforcers are the role models bah...

I do split and sometimes do follow behind too.

Here's what I feel.

When splitting, do it at a safe speed and always have an escape route. Be ready for evasive manovre and use your lights to your advantage...

When following, keep a safe distance but not to safe until cars start coming in front of you and do e-brake. Be ready to stop anytime and if any car behind you tail gate you, then it is lane splitting time!

The bottomline is - When you ride, dun dream! 100% attention. Dun look at XMMs, look at nice cars and look for inspiration for 4D...

 

 

 

 

im super doper agreed with u,,,,haha....deAR RIDERS,u got no protection surronding u likewise cars,so yah, ride safely,no SELET SELET!!!!

[kori]

when TPs or ROVs lanesplit, it's best to follow behind them because the cars will automatically open a clear path for them to lane split. lol.

[DeusExMachina]

Makes me wish I had a gatling gun to open up the road ahead of me.

[jhawk2820]

This morning, since I'm "bikeless" these few days, I got my wife to drive me to work. She just got her car and I'm sort of giving her some orientation.

 

We were turning out of a minor road to a major road and into a yellow box junction. I was telling her to be very careful of bikers that are splitting lanes and they will not stop before the yellow box junction. Just after I finished my sentence, a car on our right entering the yellow box collided with a bike. My wife was utterly shocked, but a real life lesson learnt for her.

 

I think as bikers, we have tendency to split lanes while riding. This is actually something to be avoided, especially near crowded junctions with yellow boxes. Some time back, I had almost collided with a bike that is splitting lanes while I'm entering exactly the same yellow box. There is no way a driver can see you coming with all the vehicles blocking the view. You would not be able to see clearly vehicles turning out too.

 

It's a good thing the car on the biker's right is stationary. The biker just fell and banged the right car. If it was moving, I cannot imagine the consequences.

 

I've attached an illustration.

 

Ride safe, treat all cagers as blind!

 

from the diagram, its seem that the car are moving toward the 3rd lane.

in this kind of situation it should be both rider and driver fault.

 

i do encounter this kind of situation where car come out from side road just dash across to the lane they want to. shouldn't they need to do lane changing 1 at the time?