I cut two seconds from the video while I caught up to the second car, nothing to see there, nothing else to the story. Everybody interprets the vid differently. I wasn't lane blocking. The guy who passed me came up that mountain like a rocket, because he wasn't anywhere near me when I first pulled out to pass. BTW, you see the sun glare? How do you see someone 500 yards back in a 4" mirror with that?
Although you guys don't know me personally, I value my honesty and integrity, being a poser is not my thing. I don't get my kicks out of anonymously posting doctored vids on the Tube.

I cut two seconds from the video while I caught up to the second car, nothing to see there, nothing else to the story. Everybody interprets the vid differently. I wasn't lane blocking. The guy who passed me came up that mountain like a rocket, because he wasn't anywhere near me when I first pulled out to pass. BTW, you see the sun glare? How do you see someone 500 yards back in a 4" mirror with that?
I don't get my kicks out of anonymously posting doctored vids on the Tube.

Hmmmmm....

Dick move anyway you want to look at it. Some of you guys seem to think you get privileges that just don't exist just 'cause you're on two wheels. Someone said it earlier, try it with a cop there and see what happens. And smack downs on the clown are all fine and well but in reality it ain't gonna happen, the only one going to give that boy a smack down is himself and hopefully he doesn't take down someone else with him when he does it. Spending a few seconds getting the guys attention before he passed wasn't gonna kill him or anyone else, unlike the pass he made could have. Everybody's in such a big hurry to go nowhere any more and they're going there with a huge entitlement attitude! WTF is wrong with everybody?

Sadly, the world is full of idiots...

Right on the money! :icon_that:

I watched the video several times. There's nothing here we don't encounter on a regular basis. Thanks OP.
My thinking is the idiot was overtaking everybody well before you saw him. You needed a little more giddy-up in your pass IMO. That guy passed on your right and kept going intending to pass semi as well.
You didn't see him? Could that be error on your part? If he was 15 mph faster approaching you and 2 cars, you could have blinkered over in his way? I would have lingered behind and let you get around traffic being we weren't riding together. If we were together, you had left side and me going faster on right. Pay attention. I have no problem getting passed that close in same lane. I saw you.
It gets way more technical than this scenario from my experience.

Right on.. If you were inattentive and cut back without checking your mirrors it could of been all over for you and him both. No excuse for what he did

From my limited knowledge of lane splitting it is to be done at low speed when traffic is stopped or moving slowly, not on a freeway at high rates of speed. Also when lane splitting I wouldent anticipate someone passing me at a VERY high rate of speed that could kill me if I changed coarse. We get it, your not a fan of lane splitting but this is not even close to dooing it

I can't believe ANYONE here defends that move. I guarantee any, and I mean ANY one of us would have been surprised, startled and pissed had someone done this to them. Checking the mirrors or no, no one would have expected this douche to pull through like that. Just because you see him in your mirror, doesn't mean this is right.