Caught my second DUI driver of the year!

[Kyle_E]

Wrong side of the road hits the median a few times.... Nothing too dramatic, but thought I'd share.

Police and I had a good chuckle about the way he did the walk and turn test. @Sierra1 we dubbed it "The spring walk" Hard to see in the second video but he was bending the HECK out of his knees trying to absorb any wobble. Didn't even bother to do the turn. Dude actually consented to a blood draw after completely failing the FST.

 

[Mak10]

People really scare me. I can’t count the times I look over at a car next to me while riding and see someone texting or something on the phone.

 

[Madhatter]

yesterday as I was driving to the airport to pick up my wife I notice a strange motorcycle coming up behind me .... some squid on a duel sport riding a wheelie at 65 mph and he was changing lanes between cars on one wheel . he got close to one car but manage to veer away and finally on the off ramp he puts the front wheel down . he was on that back wheel for 3 plus miles at 65 mph and you know what the car drivers are thinking .he is heading to his own funeral but doesn't know it . idiots abound out there.

 

[Ladlesport]

WOW!
When my wife and I are out riding we make a point to avoid metropolitan areas unless we absolutely have to dive in to one.

 

[Madhatter]

Kyle E , nice citizens arrest .....

 

[Sierra1]

Around here, distracted driving has become a bigger issue than intoxicated driving as far as being the cause of crashes.

 

[Kyle_E]

People really scare me. I can’t count the times I look over at a car next to me while riding and see someone texting or something on the phone.

Around here, distracted driving has become a bigger issue than intoxicated driving as far as being the cause of crashes.

Yeah until the wrong way portion at the end I just naturally assumed it was person texting while driving or messing with kid in backseat. As it's just baffling to me to drink and drive in the modern era with the availability of lyft/uber.

 

[WJBertrand]

Having made the same 46 miles each way commute since '93 until about a year ago, I rarely saw rear ender accidents, maybe once a month or so, if that back in the 90s and even early 2000s. That was before smart phones became so ubiquitous. More recently I would see them 2-3 times a day! It actually became uncommon to have a day without one. What really pissed me off was the effect on traffic, could rarely find a day without a jam up because of these rear enders. Not to stereotype anyone but almost all the cases I saw were younger people, teens, 20s & 30s that were driving the car that ran into the one in front of them. No doubt texting or watching Tic Tock. they'd even still be on their phones when the cops arrived. Super thankful for California's allowed and then fully legalized lane splitting! You would be a total sitting duck stopped at the back of a column of cars.

 

[PhilPhilippines]

Lane splitting is fine and safe as long as you expect every door to open, every vehicle to swerve, every gap to have a pedestrian crossing, etc

It is illegal here. However, if the enforcers ever stop me, I will speak to them in my made up dsdjks dksfhsdhkn jddjdjk language and I will be very quickly on my way...

 

[WJBertrand]

Lane splitting is fine and safe as long as you expect every door to open, every vehicle to swerve, every gap to have a pedestrian crossing, etc.

So the "someone opening a door" bit is the first argument I hear as every time against lane splitting, Frankly in 53 years riding in California and probably 10s of thousands of actual lane splitting miles in that time, I've never seen it happen. None of my riding friends here have ever had it happen to them either. As most lane splitting is done on the freeways, there are no pedestrian crossings there.

Here is an example of my typical commute before I transitioned to home based work. No doors, no pedestrians, complete with accident scene at the end.

https://youtu.be/EBc2ChJ3kas

This was on my previous ST1300.

 

[holligl]

Around here, distracted driving has become a bigger issue than intoxicated driving as far as being the cause of crashes.

The guy I bought my ST from was taken out on his Victory by a distracted driver. He survived a blindside sideswipe at 70 mph but injuries were bad enough for him to quit after a lifetime of riding.

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[Sierra1]

So the "someone opening a door" bit is the first argument I hear as every time against lane splitting, . . . .

Opening doors wouldn't be my concern either. But. . . . once again, around here . . . . lane changes would be the issue. It's almost like they refuse to use their signals & mirrors. And, I know our "bro-truck" drivers would be an issue.

 

[Checkswrecks]

I lived in the LA region for 10+ years on & off where lane splitting was normal and no problem. Since then I've had people try to open their doors on me and definitely people moving their car to close the space to a car next to them but I was slow enough or far enough it didn't matter. The thing is that those were in the DC/MD area usually on the Whitehurst Freeway or Canal Road where lane splitting is not legal so I imagine they were trying to stop me or "teach me a lesson." The thought of somebody forcing an accident (vehicular assault?) was the reason I put the front & rear video cameras on the bike.

 

[PhilPhilippines]

So the "someone opening a door" bit is the first argument I hear as every time against lane splitting, Frankly in 53 years riding in California and probably 10s of thousands of actual lane splitting miles in that time, I've never seen it happen. None of my riding friends here have ever had it happen to them either. As most lane splitting is done on the freeways, there are no pedestrian crossings there.

Here is an example of my typical commute before I transitioned to home based work. No doors, no pedestrians, complete with accident scene at the end.

https://youtu.be/EBc2ChJ3kas

This was on my previous ST1300.

Not sure what you are saying. I am PRO-lane splitting. I was just stating that it is reasonable to anticipate situations that cause collisions worldwide.

So, do you adjust your speed in a reasonable expectation of a door opening or just ignore that it does?

I have seen it many, many times. Mostly when nobody is splitting, but I have had it happen to me. Fortunately I had anticipated the rare event and stopped... I could have been travelling at the same speed as others and had the collision, but I based my speed on my experience.

I now have one experience.

 

[PhilPhilippines]

I lived in the LA region for 10+ years on & off where lane splitting was normal and no problem. Since then I've had people try to open their doors on me and definitely people moving their car to close the space to a car next to them but I was slow enough or far enough it didn't matter. The thing is that those were in the DC/MD area usually on the Whitehurst Freeway or Canal Road where lane splitting is not legal so I imagine they were trying to stop me or "teach me a lesson." The thought of somebody forcing an accident (vehicular assault?) was the reason I put the front & rear video cameras on the bike.

I had an American immigrant try to "teach me a lesson" here. His move was:
1) see me in side mirror
2) wait 'til I am almost alongside
3) move off and steer left across my path

This UK immigrant:

1) saw driver looking
2) anticipated
3) stopped
4) asked politely if he was ok
5) carried on

Plenty of Filipinos baulk progress as well, but plenty are very accommodating too. I expect 99% of all immigrants are too.

 

[WJBertrand]

Opening doors wouldn't be my concern either. But. . . . once again, around here . . . . lane changes would be the issue. It's almost like they refuse to use their signals & mirrors. And, I know our "bro-truck" drivers would be an issue.

Yeah you have to be especially careful when lane splitting and you come up on a spot with a car on one side of you but an open space on the other. That's when they'll try to change. As long as you've got vehicles on both sides the drivers won't pull that. I try to immediately move to the center of the open space and occupy that lane whenever that occurs.

 

[PhilPhilippines]

Yeah you have to be especially careful when lane splitting and you come up on a spot with a car on one side of you but an open space on the other. That's when they'll try to change. As long as you've got vehicles on both sides the drivers won't pull that.*** I try to immediately move to the center of the open space and occupy that lane whenever that occurs.

Yes true. When lane splitting, get the right speed and position for what could reasonably expected to happen:
a) doors opening - people get out to look, open door to be sick, spit, etc (seen all three)
b) ***gaps closing - on a three lane, a high-side vehicle may swerve towards you. You do not have the advantage of observation if a vehicle from one lane over changes lane with undue care and causes a domino effect
c) when passing a vehicle with a small gap in the next lane, move away from the lane with the vehicle in it. You have already prior knowledge of whether the vehicles in front are slowing due to superior sight lines from a central position, but cannot be assured of whether the vehicle will suddenly move over

 

[WJBertrand]

Doors opening are just not on my checklist, folks tossing out their residual dregs of their lattes or flicking a lit butt is common. Usually the cars are moving slowly, folks don't open doors when their moving. Sometimes I think they are trying to get me but they can't judge distance/timing too well in their convex mirrors and always toss that stuff out in front of me. On my old Interceptor with carburetors, I'd flip the kill switch off and on to give them a big BOOM when I passed as retaliation. That doesn't work with EFI. I've also had drivers move to and ride the line to prevent me from passing. Not dangerous, just annoying. In California at least, most folks will move over to give you more room, often when it's completely unnecessary. I try to give them a little wave of "thanks" though.

 

[PhilPhilippines]

"...folks don't open doors when their moving." I'm sorry, but that is just not true. An improperly shut door? The probability of them opening it whilst moving is not high, granted, nor the gap being seriously reduced.

Personally, I would put doors on the checklist, as someone, somewhere in this world is probably opening one right now. It is very common in the Philippines. Unusually so. I am sure there are Filipinos in CA.

 

[WJBertrand]

Not going to argue with you Phil, it's a theoretical problem as far as I'm concerned.