Mar 15, 2015

Splitting in the News

Here are a couple of decent articles about filtering and lane-splitting in the news, including one from the Wall Street Journal (thanks Paul):

Wall Street Journal WSJ.COM Motorcycle Lane-Splitting Could Move Beyond California

Bikewriter.com Lane-splitting in the mainstream? Here's a two-step program to get those laws passed

If you are in favor of splitting/filtering, prepare to be disappointed by the comments in the WSJ article. There are some really timid motorcyclists out there. The video on the WSJ article is absolutely worth watching. The article pitted a splitting rider vs. a non-splitting rider on a 1 hour (caged) commute while discussing the advantages and disagreements about splitting.

Being the conservative bastion that we’ve become, Minnesota is not part of the conversation. We should be, though.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/22/15, 9:22 PM

    You have to be suicidal to split lanes. Filtering is less crazy.

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  2. T.W. Day4/4/15, 10:09 AM

    I disagree. Splitting lanes in slow moving freeway traffic is the best reason for riding a motorcycle. Filtering is just simple logic.

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