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by jimlongley
Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:57 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Is lane-splitting legal in Texas?
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Re: Is lane-splitting legal in Texas?

KBCraig wrote:
KBCraig wrote:follow the cites to make sure).
Sorry, but I stand by my statement - the Wikipedia entry I made up was complete with citations and links, some ok, some bogus.

And I still think lane splitting is a very bad idea.
by jimlongley
Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:08 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Is lane-splitting legal in Texas?
Replies: 24
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Re: Is lane-splitting legal in Texas?

Kalrog wrote: The car drivers need to respect the bicycles as well.
I just wish some of the bicyclists would respect the cars a little more. We routinely have packs of bicyclists riding on the 75 frontage road up here that ignore stop signs. Single riders do it too, but the packs are the most obnoxious, you get to sit there and fume while they ignore the law, and if you have the timerity to blow your horn, your get the Hawiian Rockefeller Friendship salute.
by jimlongley
Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:04 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Is lane-splitting legal in Texas?
Replies: 24
Views: 3391

Re: Is lane-splitting legal in Texas?

KBCraig wrote:Only legal in California, per the Wikipedia article (follow the cites to make sure).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_splitting
And we all know how reliable Wikipedia articles are, right?

That article appears to me to be one of those self-serving ones where someone wants to justify their point of view. All they have to dio is publish it on Wikipedia and then point to it as justification. I have done so myself just to prove the point.

Anti-gun nuts, ethnic discriminators and others have done the same.

BTW, when I was in the rescue squad we picked up a lane splitter once, not the only case, but the only one I rode one, and he was in pretty rough shape. He misjudged the space between cars that were traveling about 15mph and tried to squeeze through at about 30. Untangling his left hand from the clutch handle was something we left to the surgeons, we just cut off the handlebar and sent it along with the rest of him.

I know of several others of a similar stripe, which would seem to put the citation of no known accidents due to lane splitting in the Wikipedia article a little on the Clinton side of the truth.

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