Usually try backroads during the heaviest traffic, not comfortable with splitting

 

Did it for five years in Long Beach on my smaller faster street bikes. I was younger and dumber then. Never quite got used to it. Very tense and not relaxing. I did it also to get away from being rear ended in big packs of cars at the light.

I moved to Phoenix and started riding again. I don't have to do it at all here, and I pretty much have not done it since LB. Move here. It's not too cold and you can ride almost year round. I miss CA sometimes. Not often though.

P.S. The cagers are generalygonna hate us anyway. It makes me really appreciate the ones that drive heads up and aware, giving us proper room. There are a few good ones out there.

 

Gotta have *****. I did it when i was younger but only for fun. Would not do it now but i do understand why some do in that Cali. traffic. Hell if its legal i say rock out.

 

Be careful..... its very dangerous

 

All depends on the traffic. I do the 118 from Simito Northridge (about 14 miles)and only split if traffic is doing under 25 mph otherwise I just hang in my lane. I end up only having to split on the Simi side most of the time.

Having to get used to the bagger not really any wider then the Deluxe was but it seems that way. Miss making noise with the Deluxe pipes though...that way theycould hear me coming. Don't feel the need to have loud pipes on the bagger might go for a little more tough just for this reason.

 

As long as you got rid of the stock pipes and have good insurance, proceed with caution.

 

When I lived in cali, I had an fxsts. Pretty easy lane splitting with that narrow bike but wouldn't do it much on a bagger.For those who don't live where it's legal, cagers are surprisingly pretty darn corteous about itbut of course, there's an a$$hole in every crowd...

 

I do it all the time, very comfortable for the most part once in a while I get a scare but rarely. To me it is just like riding on the any street, most of the time all is well and then something happens to snap you back to the reality of the dangers of riding on two wheels. It is done all over the world and the way gas is going upbike riding will double or triple in the foreseeable future. Many, many morebikes on the rode and with the traffic jams we all haveeverywhere, I think it is a good law to be able to split lanes. Every state should allows us to do it in my opinion. Not fast and not in all lanes, left lanes only when traffic is slow and backing up.
Cagers hate us anyway, might as well rub it in (smiling).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGaVHIrQs_Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1urbl...eature=related
[8D]

 

There are safer ways to do it and foolish ways to do it. I only do it when the traffic is stopped or nearly stopped/crawling along (<10 mph or so). And when I do split lanes I only pass thru at jut a tad above the speed of the vehicles around me. I dont fly between the line of cars - it's a casual pace up the line and constantly on the alert. I've never had any trouble with cagers really. In fact it seems that most that do see me coming move over a tad to give me extra room as I approach.

It's the guys that do 30 or 40 mph up a line of cars crawling along at 10 mph that pisses people off.

As mentioned above watch for gaps in the line as it starts to move - these are danger zones cuz the cars may try to jump into that gap in the next lane. Anticipating just this kind of stuff is part of the experience.

It's not relaxing or fun but if done cautiously and prudently the risk is minimal. Once the lanes start to move at any reasonable speed at all (15 or so MPH) I fall back into the lane and flow with the cars. What I try and avoid is the contant STOP n GO where you're moving a car length, putting feet down/engaging clutch, moving another car length then putting feet down/clutch, etc. That's pure torture and is the reason I split lanes when necessary and SAFE to do so.