Motorcycle lane splitting

[hollohas]

It is not legal in CO. I spent all of my motorcycling years in CA lane splitting and I never saw a single downed bike from the practice.

In CA, I witnessed many bikes almost get clobbered while lane splitting, road rage by some of those, a few get minor bumps by side view mirrors, etc, one bike go down and knew another guy that was in a major accident and disabled due to lane splitting and a car not seeing him. All in less than 2 years in the Bay Area.

I agree with folks here. In stopped or crawling traffic, it makes sense. (And I'm pretty sure the proposed bill in CO would have limited it to traffic going 5mph or less and bikes going no more than 10mph over the speed of traffic).

But the vast majority of the time I saw it happening in CA and in CO now, traffic isn't crawling. This morning we were doing 40mph when a bike came splitting down 6th Ave. It's darn near everyday I see it now. That's simply not safe.

On Hwy 36 the RTD buses blast by on the soulder while in heavy traffic. If a big ass bus can do it safely, you'd think it'd be legal for bikes too.

[Doc45]

In CA, I witnessed many bikes almost get clobbered while lane splitting, road rage by some of those, a few get minor bumps by side view mirrors, etc, one bike go down and knew another guy that was in a major accident and disabled due to lane splitting and a car not seeing him. All in less than 2 years in the Bay Area.

I agree with folks here. In stopped or crawling traffic, it makes sense. (And I'm pretty sure the proposed bill in CO would have limited it to traffic going 5mph or less and bikes going no more than 10mph over the speed of traffic).

But the vast majority of the time I saw it happening in CA and in CO now, traffic isn't crawling. This morning we were doing 40mph when a bike came splitting down 6th Ave. It's darn near everyday I see it now. That's simply not safe.

On Hwy 36 the RTD buses blast by on the soulder while in heavy traffic. If a big ass bus can do it safely, you'd think it'd be legal for bikes too.

This post and fitz's reflect my sentiments exactly, thanks to you both. Been riding for almost 50 years with 45 of that on the street, just sayin.