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[Richard230]

The legislators in Texas must like to see riders and their motorcycles cook during hot weather and traffic jams. Plus, they also don't want motorcycle riders to get somewhere before they do  : https://www.motorcycle.com/bikes/news/texas-formally-outlaws-lane-splitting-44594332

[DonTom]

The legislators in Texas must like to see riders and their motorcycles cook during hot weather and traffic jams. Plus, they also don't want motorcycle riders to get somewhere before they do  : https://www.motorcycle.com/bikes/news/texas-formally-outlaws-lane-splitting-44594332

Yeah, I saw that article. Those Texas riders can move back to CA where it is still legal.


I just hope Texas doesn't give CA any ideas. . .


FWIW, lane splitting is NOT legal here in NV. But is rarely needed here, even in Reno. I cannot speak for the Las Vegas area. But it has been handy for me when in CA on I-80 many times between here and Auburn when they have a lane out because of road construction.


-Don-  Reno, NV

[Specter]

A lot of this is probably driven by the asshole kids playing their games with their bikes I bet.  Unfortunately that's all it takes is a few jackasses to 'make an impression' and ruin it for everyone.  They start cutting thru traffic and driving stupidly, someone gets mad they just call it all 'lanesplitting' 'lanesharing' and now it's 'all' illegal.

On lane splitting overall, I can see both sides of it though.  If you are on a bike of course it's nice to cut to the front of the line, until there are 20 bikers all wanting to be first, thinking that because they are on bikes, they get to cut in front of the 6 cars there waiting before them.   If you are in a car, it's not so nice when someone on a bike slides by you to get to the front of the line, so much for everyone waiting their turn.

Between the cell tards who are not even looking at the road and have no clue a bike is there, and the road rage morons it's probably overall safer that way, one less reason for someone to get angry and run over a biker.

I am curious though, when Texas initially introduced the legislature, to the point where they ratified it, how many bikers showed up to protest or at least voice their dislike of the new law?  Or did it pass pretty much totally under the radar, because bikers, like pretty much every other community, don't give a rats ass enough to put time in to fight things like this.  until it's too late then they have plenty of time to cry about it.   I fish and see the same crap in our community too.  Laws are introduced and you can plead with your 'community' until you are blue in the face to goto the meeting or hell, just send in a quick e mail saying NO!  maybe 1 out of 100 will do anything.

Sadly we are our own worst enemies more often than not.

Aaron

[Curt]

Yikes, what happened? I thought they were moving toward legalizing lane splitting. In CA the police lobbied hard to keep it legal, and fortunately not by just carving out an exception for themselves. Don't police in Texas ride while off duty?

[Specter]

Name 2  cops that would write another cop a ticket for lane splitting?

That's why they don't care.  Actually in their eyes, it's more revenue for them when they write more tickets for doing it.

[Richard230]

It could also be that the state legislature and the voting public are upset about loud pipes around their neighborhoods and don't want to hear them while being passed in their lane on the highway.

[SwampNut]

Texas loves to regulate everything.  Same state where you can't sell an EV directly to the public, and you can't charge per usage for EV charging.  Such a regressive place.

In AZ we recently got limited filtering.  Only when stopped, and limited to the bike doing 15 MPH.  It's a start I guess.

[Keumgang]

Agreed Swampnut. That seems to be the way to go. For example the current lane splitting law in the Netherlands: it is allowed when traffic is going slower then -I think- 20mph. Why that speed? Because the distance between the cars in then so small that cars cannot merge unexpectedly into another lane (and so being a danger for splitting bikes).

So I wonder why it has to be so black and white? A bit more specific law is helpful. How hard is that.

-Hayo

[DonTom]

Don't police in Texas ride while off duty?

If you rode a motorcycle 8 hours a day, would you want to do more of it during your time off?


The best way to ruin a hobby is to make it into a job.


-Don-  Reno, NV

[Commodore]

Strange that the cops would want to enforce a lanesplitting law.  I talked to one of our local police about this asshole who rode a hooligan bike like a hooligan: no muffler, speeding thru our little village, never stopping at our one stop sign, and the officer said they are very reluctant to enforce traffic laws on motorcycles because if the rider gets hurt in a chase, blame falls on them.  Just ridiculous where things are these days.

[Richard230]

Strange that the cops would want to enforce a lanesplitting law.  I talked to one of our local police about this asshole who rode a hooligan bike like a hooligan: no muffler, speeding thru our little village, never stopping at our one stop sign, and the officer said they are very reluctant to enforce traffic laws on motorcycles because if the rider gets hurt in a chase, blame falls on them.  Just ridiculous where things are these days.

It appears as if the same situation (maybe worse) occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area where large groups of unlicensed dirt bikes and autos are permitted to block freeways, intersections and bridges, put of a hooligan show and then ride or drive off back home and almost never are caught. Apparently the cops don't want to chase them because they are concerned that the hooligans will get into an accident and injure themselves or someone else that just happens to be on the street at the time.

[Specter]

This is where you need someone with a bad attitude who is tired of punk assholes like that to get into a semi and just slam into them at 80 mph.  I bet they'd stop that crap real fast,  what's left of them that is.

Play around, have fun, but don't be ignorant about it.  you can't find a walmart parking lot  somewhere or an abandoned home depot and play in their lot?  Blocking traffic, yah you need to be taught a lesson.

Fuck around, and find out... is starting to make a BIG comeback,  people are growing very weary and tired of these stupid stunts by groups all over and it's going to start getting ugly.

Just an observation.
Aaron

[SwampNut]

I bet they'd stop that crap real fast,  what's left of them that is.

No, they would not, and haven't.  People get injured/killed in these things all the time and the rest are too stupid to give a shit, or assume it can't happen to them.  You know, being that they are such great riders and would just wheelie away from the danger.

There are a few good FAFO videos out there though, to laugh at.

[Specter]

Self injuring is one thing, that invincibility that teenager and 20 something tards believe they have helps that along merrily. But being mowed down by a pissed off driver tends to send a different type of fear down ones spine, and if it actually happened, a few of the saner ones, if there is such a thing might give it a second thought.  At the very least, it gets some of them off the road, so the problem is sort of assisted - self correcting.

We need to start a movement to get some E bikers to start doing this, that way we can get cheap  parts on the secondary markets when the NOK sells them off to pay for the burial.  Assuming it's not all flattened.

Aaron

[SwampNut]

But being mowed down by a pissed off driver

That's what I was talking about.  It happens, changes nothing.  A friend watched it happen in downtown ATL.  Driver was not charged, same group of idiots was out the following weekend.