thunderarms wrote:I don't know if any of you ride...I'm on a Harley Davidson ultra limited...That to me looks awfully narrow. can't wait to see what happens when a novice takes out someones side view mirror or some irritated jackass who does not know the law opens his car door when a bike approaches.
Exactly my concern. I ride a Yamaha Stratoliner and there is no way that I'm fitting that 1900cc cycle through gaps like that, especially given that it's frankly tiring on your clutch hand and throttle grip trying to slow maneuver about a thousand pounds for any length of time. It's been awhile since my last trip to CA, but what I do remember of that and seeing lane splitting is that it is much like one of the above videos posted where cycles are riding through bus stops and lanes, loading zones, into a parking space to get by - which I would think would fall into the category of not being a part of the actual roadway. But I'll make a deal here, in that I'm willing to support this law when I see existing laws actually enforced. By that I mean that you can see distracted driving all the time where for example, someone is texting and because they aren't really paying attention to driving and are leaving huge gaps between them and the car in front. And so on. IMHO, there is plenty of congestion created and sustained because of bad drivers. Enforce all of those issues and we'd have much less of a problem.