🚀 go-pugleaf

Jack May wrote:
> 
> "The Real Bev" <bashley@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Jack May wrote:
> >
> > > We motorcycle guys will still beat you with lane splitting.   I love it
> > > when traffic is totally stopped.  I can lane split much faster and safer in
> > > stopped traffic.
> >
> > Unless some shithead kid deliberately opens his door in front of you.
> 
> Never had that happen because people are usually looking ahead and are
> surprised when you pass them.   Bike riders also have a lot of tricks to
> handle drivers.

It's not the drivers, it's their shithead kids in the back seat, one of
whom actually DID open the door in front of me.  I wish I could remember
whether I told the driver what he was doing when I got up next to him.
 
> If someone tried to harm a biker during an emergency, other bikers would
> also be lane splitting and would see it.

In an emergency, I believe that drivers would try to keep the bikers
from passing for the same reason that people won't open their yard sales
before the published time even if they're ready and there's already a
crowd gathered -- sheer bloody-mindedness.
 
> With no police and with some bikers that are shall we say eccentric, the
> person opening the door could be wishing to die after a little while.

Some kids are dumb.

-- 
Cheers,
Bev 
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