"start seeing motorcycles" stuff

[darxus]

http://ruiner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/howclose.mpg (3.2mB, from http://community.livejournal.com/motorcycles/1370305.html)

I would appreciate you watching this short video. I met at least one person who is now dead because someone failed to see him while he was riding, with no excuse.

I have this kind of problem on a regular basis. If I didn't regularly expect people to be this stupid I would... not be so healthy.
One of the people actually said to me afterward, when I pulled up to them, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you!" Those words... piss me off.

Comments

[feng-huang.livejournal.com]

Irrelevant to the point you're making, but I was told that it's legal in California for a motorcycle to ride up between a line of stopped cars, as long as there's room. At a stop light, though, you run a high risk of getting creamed by a red-light runner if you're the first off the line at the green. (A co-worker who lived and rode in CA told me this when he described how he beat a red-light runner through an intersection on his green and how the runner beat him another time, leaving him to miss the guy by inches. He stopped riding after that.)

[mrpet.livejournal.com]

Considering this post originated in Boston, I will defer from commenting on CA. In MA a motorcycle cannot pass another car in the same lane.

Chapter 89: Section 4A - Driving vehicles in a single lane; motorcycles, riding and passing Section 4A. The operators of motorcycles shall not ride abreast of more than one other motorcycle, shall ride single file when passing, and shall not pass any other motor vehicle within the same lane, except another motorcycle.

[feng-huang.livejournal.com]

As I said, it was irrelevant to your point. I brought it up because I felt it was an interesting data point, and it's certainly something of which to be aware for those who drive there, even just sporadically or as a visitor/vacationer.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

Lanesplitting is, in fact, legal in California.