Lane splitting (sharing) interview

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On todays ride I thought a lot about this thread. I tried running 18 mph for awhile as is the limit in Australia when filtering. Imagined running between a line of cars. It is kind of slow lol. Tried in first and second gears. In second it's like 1500 rpms. in first IIRC it was around 3000 rpms? The line had better be short that you're filtering on because you are not going to pass many unless it's a long light. If there are a lot of cars you have to pass I imagine they will be taking off before you get to the head of the line and you are going to have to merge left or right into a lane. A better speed for me seemed to be between 25 and 30 mph, in second gear.

So I headed to the freeway since I had to run across town to the Guzzi dealer to pick up a can of Plexus for my brother. Yea at this time of day there wasn't enough traffic to play the splitting game unless you were just picking off 1 vehicle at a time.

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one thing I noticed on our roads were hthe pot holes all seemed to be right where a motorcycle would be splitting on the striped lane divides

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here you can see where the state has come thru and just patched right where the lane dividers are

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I did come up behind vehicles that were running side by side and skooched over on the lane divider looking at the distance between them to imagine going through. I thought Naaaa not me lol. Could probably do it, but I don't have to...... thank goodness

Ferret, I don't think you quite get it. You are hung up on the 30kph speed and then go to a lightly trafficked, fast moving, freeway to check it out. That is nonsense and not what our filtering laws were designed for. Did you look at the video I posted in [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8942&pid=140598#pid140598]this post?. The traffic in that vid is peak hour, bumper to bumper and stop and go. This is where filtering is very useful.

For example, on a hot summers day I get up early to ride one of my favourite roads, the Putty Loop. After 350kms of enjoyable riding I arrive back in Sydney at about 4:30pm. The peak hour traffic is building. I can be faced with about 10kms of walking pace traffic, most of which is in a hot, poorly ventilated (unless you are in a cage with a beaut recycling air conditioning unit) cross city tunnel. Outside of peak hour it flows well but for about three hours a day it is a nightmare of stop and start and speeds rarely exceeding 15kph. To sit and stare through the rear window of a car, at the back of a bus or 18 wheeler while overheating and breathing hot exhaust gas is not a good place to be. So is it stop and go and crawl at sub 30kph speeds, or do I choose to filter at up to 30kph? Have a guess.

Cheers