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Originally posted by BillyPilgrim
I could be wrong, but I think the law says you can't go more than 15 mph faster than the vehicle next to you. Almost all of the lane splitters I see are going about 10 mph between barely-crawling, stop-and-go traffic. This doesn't seem all that unsafe to me.
I don't ride, but my dad splits lanes all the time on his GSXR. Unfortunately, a lot of people think it's illegal here, or are just jealous that he's getting where he's going and they're stuck, so he gets people trying to block him or even spitting on him.
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Yup - I believe 15mph is the allowed overage for "lane sharing" as we call it here in CA.
I do think that folks get mad at being passed when they can't go anywhere - and I do also think that many drivers unconciously and conciously speed up just to not be passed even though they are going SLOW in the FAST lane, then slow down when you have too move in back behind them, then speed up again when you go to pass again, only to finally slow down when you have passed with force and created a bit of a gap between you and them. It happpens to me every day. Like today, the guy that sped up enough to nearly have a rear end accident with the nearly stopped guy in front of him, just to keep me from passing him - when they were moving 5 miles per hour!!!!!
