Motorcycle lane splitting

[hollohas]

Did Colorado change the law for lane splitting? Everyday I see multiple motorcycles lane splitting in rush hour traffic (even when traffic is moving well) Or are the implants just unaware of the law here?

I spent 18 ish months in CA where lane splitting is legal and had seen more than a few accidents as a result of the practice. And that's where drivers are fully aware that bikers are doing it.

Here, drivers aren't used to looking for lane splitters. I sure don't like to see it happening as often as I have recently.

[TFOGGER]

Still not legal here, although various groups keep trying to change that. I'll only split when traffic is at a complete standstill, and only enough to get somewhere where I can stop the bike and let it cool off.

[SouthPaw]

I wish it was legal here especially when traffic is at a stand still.

[fitz19d]

The big issue even if legal is guys want to do 80 thru 40mph traffic. As much as i hate Britain, and their crazy lanes on their roadways. If you watch their biker videos, is how its done right.

I mostly would want it for filtering to the front of a stop light especially when you get someone pulled up short 10 feet.

Also just for passing in clear traffic, wide open road but you have 2 tards in douche formation next to each other holding up traffic.

[Great-Kazoo]

It's not legal

[CS1983]

I briefly had a mental lapse in judgement and moved to So Cal in 2010 for a year. Had a class which started at 6pm in Fountain Valley and I lived in Newport Beach on the peninsula. The 405 would be a parking lot. On the bike, with lane splitting, I'd make it there in 25 minutes. In my truck, it would take an hour.

The key, as fitz notes, is not blasting up the opening but going a cautious speed which allows for reaction.

[wctriumph]

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. That being said, I have been mistreated by drivers that do not agree with the sensible practice of lane splitting. It should be legal in all 50 states to reduce motorcycle accidents and the injuries that result from inattentive cage drivers.

[Zundfolge]

I too have noticed more bikes splitting lanes ... I just attributed it to the influx of PRK refugees.

[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.