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nightmare69 wrote:Texas doesn't play when someone intentionally causes a rider to wreck. This guy got 15yrs for his actions. Check out the video.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.khou.com ... /428463526

Yep, it was a relief to see the outcome in that case

If lanesplitting ever passes, I'm putting the section # of the traffic code on the back of my top box in vinyl letters :-) bbbbbbb

What you said was ambiguous.

OlBill wrote:I chew tobacco. Split at your own risk.

So if someone engages in what might become a legal activity, you'll spit on them? Sounds like the antigunners who want to pepper spray people open carrying.

Glock4ever wrote:Don't see enough motorcycles on the road in Texas to buy the traffic argument.

But more people would leave their car at home and dust off the motorcycle that had previously been left in the garage.

Also, more existing riders would be willing & able to wear more protective gear in summer w/o concerns of heat stroke if they can rely upon a little airflow instead of sitting & baking.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I hope this bill passes. A few weeks back, I started watching every motorcycle "how to" video I could find. Lane-splitting, counter-steering and braking are popular videos. I see the advantage of lane-splitting for bikers and motorists.

BTW, my quest to return to riding after decades away is over.

Chas.

I can't tell if this means your quest has been abandoned, or completed w. a new scooter in the garage?

I lived in CA for a year in the 80s, with a motorcycle as my only means of transportation. Rode 17,000 miles on that bike in a single year! Did plenty of lane splitting, and loved it.

I'm always puzzled by the people who oppose a very restrictive bill legalizing splitting (traffic moving 20 mph or slower, speed differential no more than 5 mph) because some idiot riders exceed that. By this logic, we shouldn't set freeway speed limits at 60 mph, because some people will drive 90?

Another canard is that because somewhere, someone, might get hurt splitting (regardless of the offsetting benefits), we shouldn't allow it. The same one-sided arguments are used by MDA - because sometimes unfortunate things happen to good people w. firearms, we should throw the baby out w. the bath water.

Yet another is that because one person wouldn't personally feel comfortable splitting, it shouldn't be legalized. No matter that legalizing it... does not somehow make it compulsory! If you don't want to, by all means don't. But let other adults make their own risk/reward decisions for themselves. Just like we do with the exercise of your second amendment rights.

Sure, it *can* be done incorrectly. Sure, it *can* be done in an unsafe manner. That applies to driving a car down an 8 lane highway as well; but we don't make that illegal.

The benefits of splitting flow to *both* riders, *and* cars/trucks. The rest of the world has been doing it since the internal combustion engine first came into being! Let's pull our heads out of the sand & give it a try