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What to do? Assholes while lane splitting

Bluenote said:
No it won't , and if you catch it wrong that's a damned good way to break a hand.........
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WOW! Really? I must be a GOD!
Score:
My hands: A couple dozen
Mirrors: 0


or others are just too weak. :rofl
 
ST Guy said:
Actually, that's the better idea. And have it rigged so that when it uses up the memory (no tapes and such for this camera), it starts overwriting the earliest part of the recording. If something happens, just shut the camera off and you've got everything leading up to the incident.
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so basically we need those ear mounted cameras that cops are using now, just helmet mounted. In fact maybe they should make moto cops use them just like cop cars have dash cams.
 
I lane split once while riding completely through LA during rush hour traffic. I lost count of the number of cars that drifted toward the lane paint to stop me from splitting. After I got through LA, I realized that I only saw one other bike during the entire 1+ hours I spent lane splitting on the freeway. I think the local riders knew something that I didn't.
 
MSHax said:
WOW! Really? I must be a GOD!
Score:
My hands: A couple dozen
Mirrors: 0


or others are just too weak. :rofl
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You made an all or nothing statement that's completely incorrect , and you may well have gotten away with knocking a few pop-off type mirrors of newer cars , but try it on an older car with direct mounted mirrors and see what happens , or hey better yet try it on an F150 or other truck with the old style mirrors............then get back to me and let me know how that worked for you.

And if you've knocked off a couple of dozen mirrors then you're just an asshat pissing folks off at the next rider and doing us no favors whatsoever.

Of course *is* another alternative on that one , perhaps you're just another internet tough guy bragging on yet another forum for the purposes of testosterone accentuation , ya know you can get test propionate or test cypionate shots or hey you could get testosterone pills instead.

And in the last analysis I've *seen* people break their hand with such stupid antics.

Grow up and just ride on by.
 
Bluenote said:
Yasshat pissing folks off at the next rider and doing us no favors whatsoever.

Of course *is* another alternative on that one , perhaps you're just another internet tough guy bragging on yet another forum for the purposes of testosterone accentuation ,
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:laughing Wow, I can get that from bragging on the Internet!!! Way cheaper than suspect ointments sent in brown paper wrappers. Can I get that growly low voice like Tony Robbins or con the whole world like Al Gore???? Dat's what I'm talkin' about. Those are two I suspect of T-enhancement.

Did I ever tell you about my collection of....
 
I didn't feel this way during my first few years of riding...

riders DON'T have a RIGHT to be split pass everyone. I see riders getting pissed off, revving, honking, etc. In my experience 99.9% of cagers will not purposely block me. I would say 10% will do the passive agressive thing and pretend I'm not there and not make room for me. I've had plenty of drivers who will going opposite lock on the steering and make room for me AFTER they've stopped for a light.

to the passive aggressives and those purposely blocking I'll just hang back and wait for an opening. why give them satisfaction of knowing that they've irritated you?
 
How do alot of you guys handle splitting on the bridges coming up to toll plaza?? Just curious as to how good/bad it may be.. I'm going to start doing some Eastbay riding and and coming back over any of the bridges I will usually run into traffic... Any luck squeezing in there? Or will it be a fight to the death?
 
Thateguhate said:
How do alot of you guys handle splitting on the bridges coming up to toll plaza?? Just curious as to how good/bad it may be.. I'm going to start doing some Eastbay riding and and coming back over any of the bridges I will usually run into traffic... Any luck squeezing in there? Or will it be a fight to the death?
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Take the carpool lane when approching the toll plazza, you should have no problem. I only lane share when the traffic is stopped or very slow. You should have no problem there either:teeth
 
simmer down.......
OP-I have done a great deal of lane sharing and the moment some driver in a car begins to muscle her/his way toward me, drift toward me, wildly gesticulate in my direction I have learned to get as far from that driver in their car as possible.

The days that I take it personally and square up are the days when I lose.
 
Ignore it.

I've got a tool in my tankbag. It's got one purpose. I got it on a whim after an incident that nearly got me killed twice, the second when I was still so infuriated I had red-rimmed tunnel-vision, and should have just pulled over and taken a few breaths.

So I got this tool. Total impulse buy. I didn't expect I'd use it much. Even at this point in my life, I realized that most bad things that happen to us are a result of negligence and stupidity rather than malice. So I told myself I'd only use it for that occasional genuine shithead, like the one who I thought nearly killed me that time.

It's one purpose is to destroy. You could channel that destruction to do something good, or not. Not, in my case.

No, it's not a gun. Nothing so dramatic as what I've been building up to. It's a spring-loaded center-punch I got from a paramedic supplier. They'll ruin a car window with just a gentle push. But the more I think about it, the worse an idea it sounds like. Why? Because the more I think about the incident that spurred me to buy it, the more I realise it was MY FAULT because *I* wasn't paying attention. I was following the guy a little too closely, and I should have anticipated that he would throw out the anchor and dive into the queue to get onto the freeway. I do it, why shouldn't other people? (I DO signal first, though)

Someone not paying attention or simply being stupid, whether it's you or another driver, will account for 99.9% of your "Bring me my brown pants!" moments on the road. If you are the type to easily get angry or huffy or are short-tempered in any way, you should probably not lane-split, because that's as fertile a field for stupidity and obliviousness as ANY.
 
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brichter said:
Move over a lane and go around.
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This is the best advice of all...:thumbup

When I commuted to SF f/the Eastbay via the bridge daily I saw all sorts of this kind of thing. Enacting revenge is the best way to screw over the next rider that comes along. Think about it. Just go around them & leave them fuming in traffic. Bingo, over done.

Also, trying to do revenge on a cager = what happens when you have a hand off the bars & a cager hits you? Down you go....:thumbdown
 
That tank bag "tool" might save a life someday at a crash scene. That would be irony, perhaps....
 
The thread title made me think first of asshole splitting motorcycles (and the 'negative perceived image' they can create). Now, I can objectively say that the thrill of a good, healthy dose of lanesharing really brings out the inner hooligan in me, with a rush-hour packed bay bridge at the top, but with a narrow bike and a naturally risk-aware personality I still consider myself to be both a consciencous and safe lanesplitter (and when I got my first one-finger-salute the other day on an absolutely gridlocked bridge, couldn't stop laughing for minutes).

So it really (read: 4/10 on the aggro scale) pissed me off the other day when I'm coming back from the city on the bridge and end up stuck behind a your-ass-is-too-fat saddlebags-carrying cruiser who not only saw me approaching in his mirrors and refused to move over, but kept trying to force himself through narrower and narrower openings. Finally, during one of these attempts he snagged the designed-to-fold car mirrors on the left and bent it back as he passed through. Great, thanks for not only slowing me down, but making me have to deal with an infuriated driver too whose vision is now impaired. So when I pulled up next to the offended car, I courteously reached out and snapped his mirror back into position and gave him a big thumbs up. I hope I made up for that guy in the driver's eyes, but the point is, I shouldn't have to. So no unless you're seriously being targeted by a caged and it isn't just lazy inattentiveness, don't be 'that guy.' It just makes it worse for yourself and all the rest of us, too.
 
Get a louder pipe. EVERYONE moves out of my way 2 cars before I get there. :)
 
Finally read the whole thread...

tuxumino said:
I had a crappy toyota do this to me, I waited a minute he forgot about me and I got by.

I'd be cool if you could take the cigaret from him while you split by.
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About a year ago I was splitting eastbound up to the bridge and being a little more cautious since my wife was on the back... so when I saw a bit of a tight spot I backed off for a few until it opened up & I gassed it through...

Right as I'm passing the close car on the right, the passenger in the back seat sticks their cigarette-holding hand out the window just in time for my mirror to give it a good, full-on smack & make them drop it. Fortunately my mirrors are on ball-pivots and just folded back, so no damage... I just thought, 'even my bike knows that smoking is bad, m'kay?'
 
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