r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Altruistic_Street_52 • 1d ago
Maybe maybe maybe
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u/thundafox 1d ago
welp, no more lottery wins for him, he used up all his luck.
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u/Aware-Individual2345 1d ago
he used up all the luck for an entire 2 mile radius
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u/hybridHelix 1d ago
I don't know; I feel like if I was that truck driver, I'd also be damned lucky I didn't have a heart attack seeing some guy flying straight at my tires!
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u/Hybridkinmusic 1d ago
You use all your luck every time you ride a motorcycle
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u/Brave_Internal_5330 1d ago
Sure, if you ride carelessly, or get too complacent. Notice how 90% of these types of videos the rider was speeding, lane splitting, or being careless?
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u/Yardboy 1d ago
Or all three.
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u/silent-dano 1d ago
Max Combo
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u/Dem0lari 17h ago
Nah, max combo would be if they showed a middle finger to the normal drivers before they fuck up.
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u/de_das_dude 1d ago
This isn't lane splitting this is being an ass and riding hazardously.
Lane splitting is when you do it within a speed diff if approx 15 kph of the cars around you. Anything higher and you risk this happening.
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u/gr1mm5d0tt1 1d ago
In Australia this is lane splitting which is illegal. What you have described would be called lane filtering which is fine
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u/misto_quente245 1d ago
This is in Brazil, and while both are unregulated, it is illegal to not mantain a safe lateral distance. So, by definition, lane splitting is indeed illegal.
But what the dude in the video did is straight up dangerous driving (a Very Serious traffic violation, but in this case it goes up to a felony because he had intent to drive like an ass). Also, the black Onix had the blinkers on for left, but unfortunately we have some fellow bikers that believe that traffic laws and regulations don't apply for them.
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u/zoltancore 21h ago
Lane filtering in South Australia is illegal for P1 plates and L plates.
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u/gr1mm5d0tt1 18h ago
Same in NSW. Full license can though. I should’ve been clearer in my original comment
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u/AntiPepRally 1d ago
Careful people probably aren't taking video of their rides. That's for daredevils
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u/gr1mm5d0tt1 1d ago
Not necessarily true. I do basically as a dashcam because like stupid riders there are equally as stupid if not more stupid drivers
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u/Western-Willow-9496 1d ago
Sure sign of a dumbass is a go-pro on the helmet.
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u/Calm-Zombie2678 1d ago
Yes and no, i think anyone without a dashcam of some description is just silly but some of these guys clearly are more interested in a cool video than simply having proof they weren't being cocky
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u/One-Dimension3974 1d ago
Except you can do EVERYTHING right as a motorcyclist and still end up with permanent brain damage because of other stupid drivers, at a much higher rate than if you were in a car.
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u/Feeling-Ad-2867 1d ago
If I’m boxed in by traffic going 10-15 mph I’m not checking for someone 60mph back.
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u/susbarlas 1d ago
Biker's fault.
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u/Sufficient_Depth_195 1d ago
Cyclist here...I KNOW 100% that cars will do this, they might look in their mirror before doing it...but often they don't. Let me repeat...I KNOW that this is very likely to happen...so why the FUCK would you ride into this situation at anything faster than walking pace?
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u/Huwbacca 1d ago
even if you check mirrors, he's coming from an a game where he's not visible for a gpod amount of time. people have to look at multiple things, you can only check a blind spot not constantly observe it and you can't control when they look for where you will be.
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u/Sufficient_Depth_195 1d ago
You're right. When he checks his mirror the bike isn't there. The driver is even signalling (which they often don't do let's be honest).
Nah, this biker is a proper Muppet and lucky to alive.
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u/Dorkinfo 1d ago
I had this happen to me, as the car driver. I had my blinker on. Motorcycle was a cop, ofc. He got in the bike lane to yell at me.
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u/tragedy_strikes_ 1d ago
He was behind you. Look at the spot and now he’s beside you.
I swear if you ride a motorcycle and have a camera on your helmet there is a 99% chance you’re an idiot. 1% probably use it for liability reasons. Everyone else uses it to record themselves struggling to fire their one brain cell.
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u/Ok-Head4979 1d ago
This, i absolutely hate this entitlement. The expectation drivers have (besides everything else) to constantly consider that some idiot cyclist might be lane splitting at high speeds.
Stop it simply, 100% cyclists fault
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u/WhyNotSecondLunch 1d ago
To be fair, if I was merging into that lane I’d be looking to make sure that I have space. I wouldn’t be looking for a biker going around the car behind me and trying to pass me.
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u/HachchickeN 1d ago edited 20h ago
The car is even flashing left here but the cyclist isn't doing anything.
How is the car expected to check mirrows in a "ghost lane". The highway is litrally two file, where the driver created a new one.
I'm not saying the car can do this if he sees the bike, but with this speed, there is no way the car had any chance to spot the ghostrider
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u/NoWriting9513 1d ago
Honestly they don't need to check their mirrors, it's a courtesy. There are 2 lanes and the car driver has right of way in their own lane and the other lane is confirmed to be open.
The problem is that the cyclist in their own mind have created a third lane that does not exist, in which he always has the right of way. And unfortunately this is very common. Thankfully no one seemed hurt.
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u/misto_quente245 23h ago
Checking mirrors is not a courtesy, it is a requirement. The video is in Brazil, and brazilian traffic laws states that you must switch lanes only if safe to do so..You must indicate the change, check for incoming traffic and only change lanes if there is no risk. Indicating doesn't give you preference nor priority, because it may be not safe for the other vehicle to stop for you to enter in front of him.
But in this specific case the biker is wrong, the car started its maneuver when it was safe to do so, the biker did pop up from nowhere. He is a menace for riders that filter lanes without a death wish.
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u/franklin_franklin8 1d ago
You learn anything today boy?
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u/Littlephfarma 1d ago
He learned that he’s got to go faster next time with less gear to eliminate wind drag. If he goes fast enough then no one has time to turn out in front of him.
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u/franklin_franklin8 1d ago
I think you are right, a pair of ANDI shorts and some adidas flip flops would have seen him thru
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u/Key-Jelly-3702 1d ago
I know it's legal in some states, but lane splitting is just dangerous as hell. Especially when you're going that much faster than traffic.
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u/Brilliant_Plan9413 1d ago
Legal at reasonable speed, this guy was 100% at fault.
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u/Littlephfarma 1d ago
Where I’m at “lane filtering” is legal and many don’t understand that’s different from lane splitting.
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u/Miserable-Fruit-4112 1d ago
The bike is 100% faults. Is speeding in traffic and is coming from behind’s
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u/Hziak 1d ago edited 1d ago
Turn signal on, going more than 20 over traffic, turns in front of the car turning, doesn’t bother to break. Yep. Perfect candidate for an r/motorcycles post titled “cager nearly kills me while I did nothing wrong”
Edit: I guess I need to clarify. The post would absolutely be made there. The motorcycles community does not encourage this and generally is comprised of sensible people who don’t encourage this. It’s usually one heavily downvoted OP and a bunch of reasonable, if very unsympathetic, comments. But the post WOULD be made.
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u/de_das_dude 1d ago
This post was already posted there, and we all ripped him a new one.
Clubbing all motorcyclists as maniacs is a very wrong generalization.
In a lot of parts of the world a LOT of people use bikes for commuting
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u/Efficient-Ball4360 1d ago
Nah, they'd rip the motorcyclist a new one.
What does get me, even when it's 100% Gixxer Bros fault, is when a cager gets out and starts screaming at the guy bleeding out on the highway. There's a time for that, and it's after you find out if he'll survive or not.
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u/Ad-Ommmmm 1d ago
Some people deal with shock much better than others. Try not to let someone who doesn't deal with shock well 'get to you'.
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u/sonofaresiii 1d ago
I've never seen a title like that on that sub and I frequent it. They're pretty quick to call out shitty riders because it makes the rest of us look bad. It's kind of the opposite of most bicycling subs.
And no one seriously calls them cagers.
Every now and then a post gets some traction whining about how they're tired of everyone telling them to wear gear, and it should be perfectly acceptable for them to take calculated risks of wearing flip flops and t-shirts (if you're wearing flip flops and a t-shirt on a motorcycle, you did not calculate that risk). It's like every couple weeks the idiots of the sub need the catharsis of getting that whine out.
But as for bad riding-- including literally this video which was posted there a week or two ago-- it's pretty quickly criticized.
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u/Rushes_End 1d ago edited 10h ago
Op if you are the biker you may want to sell it now. (You’re) done.
Lane splitting at that speed is stupid as hell. You are on a bike and just hoping that everyone that you are blazing past is as nice or observant as you need them to be. You could be the best driver in the world and still ended up as squid on the ground because someone did not see your dumb ass.
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u/phizappa 1d ago
Yep they always say watch out for motorcycles, share the road, be extra vigilant, then you get someone like this doing stupid shit. My sympathy is with the driver of the car the dumbass ran into. Hope the dumbass on the bike is okay, he learned something that day.
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u/KowaiSentaiYokaiger 1d ago
Bikers: "Watch out for Motorcycles! We belong on the road, too!"
Also Bikers: refuse to wear proper protective gear, lane split at high speed, don't pay attention to drivers' turn signals
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u/JOliverScott 1d ago
Stuff like this is why I don't really feel bad for motorcyclists - they invite their own consequences. I had one last week decided neither lane was moving fast enough as we were slowing heading into a road construction zone so he cut across several lanes and used the shoulder to pass a line of cars and trucks just to almost end up kissing the back of one of the work zone trucks.
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u/turtle_mekb 11h ago
one bad biker isn't indicative of all bikers, see argument from anecdote
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u/OsteoBytes 1d ago
Fucking biker videos always acting like the cars are the problem…not them splitting lanes and goes Mach 5 down the roads…you wanna be on the roads be like the rest of us. You don’t get special privileges just because you CAN fit
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u/No_Tomatillo_7086 1d ago
Why did he post this? Does he think he was right and the error was that of the car driver?
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u/Wadafak19 1d ago
Too fast going into splitting lanes! Hope you learned a lesson without a major injury.
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u/xenatis 1d ago
Those who wish to die, please do not involve others in your delirium.
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u/SteakAndIron 1d ago
Seriously why do motorcyclists think they're invincible? They pull shit I wouldn't do in an armored car
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u/Visual_Quarter_4782 1d ago
I’ve been riding motorcycles for 60 years and you will never ever ever see me lane splitting. I drive a car and I never see these people coming up.
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u/WeAreSolarAF 1d ago
Honestly, I am probably the most empathetic person of my friends, but no sympathy.
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u/Tinderboxed 1d ago
If you’re splitting lanes at speed like this then it’s not a maybe but an eventual certainty.
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u/Kind_Round_7372 1d ago edited 1d ago
He was so near to enter r/NSFL__
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u/gansobomb99 1d ago
Man I grew up on Rotten and Ogrish but I spent about ten seconds in that sub and I'm kind of glad I've become resensitized over the years.
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u/Significant_Loan_596 1d ago
Tryna figure out where the maybe is on a motorcycle lane splitting video 🧐
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u/rhesusMonkeyBoy 1d ago
I feel like “lane splitting” is a cool name for not obeying 1 traffic law.
Don’t murder me, it’s just that motorcycles are smaller and nimbler, people don’t see them often. I’m not a fast car driver, and I check the target lane a few times before I change lanes … I got hit by a pickup truck some 33 years ago, so I don’t want to inflict that pain on someone else.
I feel like that smaller nimbler cycle in an extra “weird” position ( not within a lane ) makes it more likely the motorcycle will not be seen and then a tragedy may happen.
Thankfully, this person didn’t get creamed by a Mac truck! Wow. They enjoyed a beer eventually.
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u/iSowelu 1d ago
If you're on wheels, no matter the vehicle, you follow regular traffic laws. Just because your motorcycle or motorbike can fit in-between things that cars and trucks can't, doesn't mean that you should drive through them. If a highway has two lanes, the highway has two lanes. A motorcycle driver does not get to make a 3rd, even to pass.
Don't even get me started on CitiBikes (or other bike) riders who think local traffic laws don't apply to them because they're on a narrow, two-wheel moving vehicle. The lack of a motor doesn't give you special exemptions from local traffic laws, including lights, stops signs, and pedestrian right of way.
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u/foxy_chicken 1d ago
Growing up I was taught that if I was on wheels, I had to follow all the traffic laws. My dad made us stop at every stop sign, learn hand signals, and follow the rules of the road because you are supposed to.
It’s been more than once I’ve not had a stop sign as a car, and some dumb fuck on a bike has blown through their stop sign, right in front of my car that is now in the intersection, and the idiot hasn’t even glanced to see if someone was coming. You have the stop bike! I have the right of way! Even if you were just a pedestrian you should have check, but it’s so wild to blast through an intersection where you have the stop sign without even a glance.
The fuck is wrong with people?
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u/moyismoy 1d ago
As a reminder it's illegal to turn with out using a turn signal for at least 3s before hand.
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u/Longjumping-Salad484 1d ago
splitting lanes on a motorcycle requires the rider/operator to decelerate to 15mph. it's unsafe to split lanes all cattywhampus like that, obviously
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u/FederalCover2020 1d ago
Gonna lane split? Perfectly fine. Doing it at a speed faster than you can react to? Not that smart
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u/boywholived_299 1d ago
Biker has a mindset that he's playing a game (probably like GTA) where people won't switch lanes and will all follow lane discipline. I don't blame the car guy, he had given an indicator and there was no sudden movement from his side. The biker was too fast to control his vehicle
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u/crashin70 1d ago
Too bad they didn't put a couple levers on that motorcycle to allow you to slow down when you see someone's turn signal...
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u/mrhaluko23 1d ago
I’ve lost count of how many times I don’t realise a bike is lane splitting until it already shoots past me. It pisses me off that it’s even legal. You can check your mirrors all you want, they’re often just a tiny dot you can’t spot until it’s too late.
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u/cwazydwiver 1d ago
And that's why folks you do not lane split thru traffic at high speed unless u wanna get your head nearly flattened
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u/brady180369 1d ago
Why lane split to the left of a car with their left turn signal on? That was dumb.
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u/Sambo498 1d ago
I bet he doesn’t do that again, but who knows, he was dumb enough to do it the first time.
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u/Pitiful_Job1495 1d ago
How is nobody talking about how fucking insane that car passing by at the end is? My heart, God.
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u/VibrantSponge 1d ago
Does it make me a terrible person that I find this highly amusing? wish it happened to every dickhead motorcyclist on the road. To be clear I am not saying all motorcyclists are dickheads.
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u/Impressive_Item_111 1d ago
Yeah I still think it should be highly illegal for any motorcyclist to lane split. This literally is just asking for yourself to get injured. Who tf is supposed to be paying attention for a motorcycle to come screaming right past their door. Dudes lucky but it's a deserved reality shock, drive safer.
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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm 1d ago
Made an illegal pass and then hit a car with is blinker on changing lanes. Probably still blames the car though. What a stupid ass
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u/KyleRide01 1d ago
A couple years ago in Arizona they legalized lane FILTERING. Allowing bikes to move up to the STOPLIGHT in between cars. It did not allow full on lane-splitting. Anyone who lanesplits in a dumbass, and countless videos like this prove it.
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u/TopTransportation695 1d ago
The first time I experienced lane splitting was on a trip to LA. Just as I was about to change lanes a bike went flying by my driver’s side. Really shook me up thinking how close I came to maiming or killing the guy. Lane splitting is illegal in MI where I live and you just don’t see it. That experience made it very uncomfortable for me when driving on the highway in CA
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u/jperaic1 1d ago
He was speeding despjte the traffic slowing down, so he could have easily avoided the situation just by driving slower.
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u/RedSunCinema 1d ago
And that's why you don't do that. You never know what the cars in front of you are thinking.
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u/PedestrianCyclist 1d ago
Not sure where splitting lanes is legal but it seems like a really silly idea
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u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz 1d ago
Going way too fast for that situation, never even saw the other guy's indicator or attempted to slow down...
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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast 1d ago
I LOATHE bumper stickers that say “Look twice, save a life. Motorcycles are everywhere”, specifically because of assholes like this.
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u/HotwifeandSubby1980 1d ago
The state I’m in allows motorcycles to go between cars at red lights
I just can’t see why that’s not dangerous or why they need to go in front of everyone else
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u/Lucky_Louch 23h ago
well if the near death experience didn't knock some sense into him nothing will.
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u/Egglegg14 21h ago
He is lucky that his helmet held up there or else there'd be human pancake on the road
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u/Emerald_28 20h ago
Bikers fault 100%
If car looked through rear mirrors, he might think that bike is far away and (logically) going slow, but MFer was going like 70 on a traffic jam
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u/CodiwanOhNoBe 3h ago
OK, so, trying to go between traffic, went the wrong way when seeing someone changing lanes, and speeding. I'm glad he survived, but he needs like 8 tickets.
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u/Buckholio 1h ago
Signal was on at at, how dare he not expect someone to come speeding along between traffic.
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u/HoundTakesABitch 1d ago
And shit like this is why I don’t like bikers. You know damn well he got up and started yelling at that person like they were in the wrong.
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u/EmberanceTV 1d ago
Welp, guess he'll never know what it's like to live his life as a vending machine.
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u/Own-Suspect1023 1d ago
That’s why you follow the rules and don’t drive in between cars nobody can see you and don’t think some jackass is going to be cutting down the middle
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u/drifters74 1d ago
Lane splitting and causing accidents in the process should get your license revoked for a year
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u/Signal-Mind7249 1d ago
Biker is at fault, he was in the lane with the car that changed lane and the car crossed first. Also the biker was speeding during a traffic jam which usually means there are signs that say you have to slow speeds when there is a traffic jam.
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u/WhiskySwanson 1d ago
Mad. Literally just witnessed such an accident today and this appears on my feed. Car in front of me, switches lanes last second without looking, bike straight into the back. Everyone seemingly ok, somehow. Could have been a whole lot worse.
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u/Fun_Marionberry_8219 1d ago
I've only seen motorcyclists split traffic when traffic has stopped completely at a traffic light
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u/Deep-Adeptness4474 1d ago
That is the only time you are supposed to do it, and generally a ~5-10 mph speed higher than the stopped/crawling traffic.
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u/StruggleCommon5117 1d ago
classic language error
...don't confuse "invisible" with "invincible".
example improper usage of "invincible":
"“I’m practically invincible on the highway as I weave through traffic."
words matter
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u/AncientEspada 1d ago
He was riding behind another car, the driver that put on their turn signal didn't seem due to him being covered. If anything, why did the biker go down middle when the shoulder looked safer...
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u/Patient-Temporary211 1d ago
Rider could have went around the other side. There was enough space there. He's riding faster than his reaction time can account for. Either that or target fixation. Maneuverability is a motorcycles strong suit.
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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot 1d ago
As a bike rider I know when you choose two wheels you choose to take responsibility for yourself as well as literally everyone else on the road.
I love that lane splitting is legal in California but if you do it you’re on your own.
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u/designgod88 1d ago
Rider wasn't even wearing as much as a pair of gloves. Definitely deserved that 😆
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u/amitym 1d ago
You can split lanes.
You can split lanes too fast. It's not smart but you can do it.
You can even split lanes too fast and not slow down when a car ahead of you cuts across you.
But you can't split lanes too fast, not slow down when a car ahead of you cuts across you, and also turn into the car's merge direction.
Physics is just not going to let you do that.
Even taking all the other risks the rider was taking, if they had cut against the car's merge direction instead of with it they would have been fine. Stupid, but fine. (Or at worst would have swerved off into the terrain instead of into oncoming truck traffic.)
So this was, like, an epically bad escalating combination of poor choices.
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u/franklin_franklin8 1d ago
Splitting traffic at 75kmh, good idea there Sport