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Idiots lane splitting on the 401 E around Yonge tonight

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Rob MacLennan said:
You know, that's bloody comical when it's the many who are doing the same thing, and the few who are doing the unexpected and illegal thing. how about the people who are doing the wrong thing be the ones who change, eh?
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So you're saying the ones that don't check your mirrors and drive oblivious to everything around them are right...OK...
 
Gnu said:
So you're saying the ones that don't check your mirrors and drive oblivious to everything around them are right...OK...
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Do you spend all your time looking in your rear view mirror, or do you at least occasionally look in the direction that you're traveling? Have eyes in the back of your head? Psychic, maybe, and know just when you should be checking those mirrors? Yeeeeaaaaaaah..... No.
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Do you spend all your time looking in your rear view mirror, or do you at least occasionally look in the direction that you're traveling? Have eyes in the back of your head? Psychic, maybe, and know just when you should be checking those mirrors? Yeeeeaaaaaaah..... No.
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Advantage Rob
 
Gnu said:
So you're saying the ones that don't check your mirrors and drive oblivious to everything around them are right...OK...
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+1

As a resonsible driver/Rider I scan my mirrors 6 to 10 times per minute and make full head checks before changing lanes. Most drivers on the road are only concerned with what is in front of them and stay oblivious to everything else around then. Just one trip across the 401 and I cannot count the number of times drivers change lanes without checking the blind spot and I am there. As a your driver over 30 years ago we were taught to scan agressively all the time, to make sure we always know what is on every side of us, and even taching the basi rider course we work to get the students to make full head checks as even bikes have blind spots.

Again I do not condone what these guys did, and I do not ride like that, but that is also no excuse for the rest of us to also break the law by traveling at 120-130 "Just because everyone else is" and becouse the cops dont ticket for it, and just becouse you are in a cage does not mean you forget about everything but what is in front of you.

As for the picture posted above, I am sure I can find dozens of pictures of fatal car wrecks in which the automobile driver was traveling above the speed limits for the road or conditions. My Cousin who had two young children was killed this spring (In her car) she was not doing anything wrong, a driver coming the other direction veered into her lane and hit her head on. She was only 40 years old.

By posting that picture you do not strenghen your points at all.
 
Outlaws Justice said:
+1

As a resonsible driver/Rider I scan my mirrors 6 to 10 times per minute and make full head checks before changing lanes. Most drivers on the road are only concerned with what is in front of them and stay oblivious to everything else around then. Just one trip across the 401 and I cannot count the number of times drivers change lanes without checking the blind spot and I am there. As a your driver over 30 years ago we were taught to scan agressively all the time, to make sure we always know what is on every side of us, and even taching the basi rider course we work to get the students to make full head checks as even bikes have blind spots.

Again I do not condone what these guys did, and I do not ride like that, but that is also no excuse for the rest of us to also break the law by traveling at 120-130 "Just because everyone else is" and becouse the cops dont ticket for it, and just becouse you are in a cage does not mean you forget about everything but what is in front of you.

As for the picture posted above, I am sure I can find dozens of pictures of fatal car wrecks in which the automobile driver was traveling above the speed limits for the road or conditions. My Cousin who had two young children was killed this spring (In her car) she was not doing anything wrong, a driver coming the other direction veered into her lane and hit her head on. She was only 40 years old.

By posting that picture you do not strenghen your points at all.
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Expecting the unexpected is an oft-quoted oxymoron. It is incumbent upon other road users to behave in a reasonable and predictable manner. When riders behave in the described manner it becomes impossible to deal with them, making it pure luck and happenstance that a collision doesn't occur. The most prepared and attentive driver is incapable of predicting the actions or position of such a person.
 
ike said:
Today, while driving my cage E. on the 401 express lanes near Yonge, I had the misfortune of witnessing a couple of idiots on sport bikes lane splitting on the 401. The traffic was moving between 110 and 120, and these guys were travelling well in excess of that - weaving in and out of lanes, and if there were two cars side by side, they just lane split and rode between the cars. The one bike blew by me so quickly I couldn't catch the type of bike he was on but it sounded like a twin cylinder (It didn't sing like a Ducati, so I suspect it was a Honda or Suzuki.) Scared me half to death watching these riders - I fully expected to come across their mangled bikes and bodies somewhere up the road - fortunately, they were lucky this time.

If these riders happen to be on this forum (although after watching them ride, I suspect their IQ is too low to be able to operate a computer) SMARTEN UP BEFORE YOU KILL YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE! It is no wonder that the public has a negative image of motorcyclists with these morons on the road.

End of rant... sorry but I just had to get this off my chest!
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Saw the same dbags at the airport going west bound around 810pm. Scared my fiancé half to death, I didn't even see them till they were just out of the mirror. They split around my car and I was cruising at 130.

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Rob MacLennan said:
Expecting the unexpected is an oft-quoted oxymoron. It is incumbent upon other road users to behave in a reasonable and predictable manner. When riders behave in the described manner it becomes impossible to deal with them, making it pure luck and happenstance that a collision doesn't occur. The most prepared and attentive driver is incapable of predicting the actions or position of such a person.
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This. Especially if said rider or riders are doing warp speed. Check your mirrors all you like but if some idiot lane splits you at 200 you'll barely see them if at all before they're well past you. As for "all of us breaking the law just because everyone else is" I'd like to point out now that if you're one of those people doing your perfect 100 on the 401 you could kindly find another route. Like it or not the flow is faster than that and slow people cause congestion and accidents. It's 2013, no one is going to do the perfect 100 because it's the law.
 
Roomie said:
This. Especially if said rider or riders are doing warp speed. Check your mirrors all you like but if some idiot lane splits you at 200 you'll barely see them if at all before they're well past you. As for "all of us breaking the law just because everyone else is" I'd like to point out now that if you're one of those people doing your perfect 100 on the 401 you could kindly find another route. Like it or not the flow is faster than that and slow people cause congestion and accidents. It's 2013, no one is going to do the perfect 100 because it's the law.
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Well..actually they could do 100 if everyone had good lane discipline. Never ceases to amaze me as I approach Coburg when the 401 goes to three lanes how most of the drivers look startled and have no frigging clue what to do. The right most lane is left empty for miles usually.
 
Wish I was back in LA where I lane split anything
 
Roomie said:
I'd like to point out now that if you're one of those people doing your perfect 100 on the 401 you could kindly find another route. Like it or not the flow is faster than that and slow people cause congestion and accidents. It's 2013, no one is going to do the perfect 100 because it's the law.
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Please correct your statement about people doing 100 causing congestion. The only people doing that are in the middle lane where THEY DO NOT BELONG.

You may be right about not doing 100 because it's law, I do it because it's much more relaxing to have the cruise set to 100 and chill in the right hand lane for the whole trip. As an added bonus, I get great fuel mileage too. We all know gas is stupid expensive, so why not leave a few minutes early and relax?
 
Robp said:
Please correct your statement about people doing 100 causing congestion. The only people doing that are in the middle lane where THEY DO NOT BELONG.

You may be right about not doing 100 because it's law, I do it because it's much more relaxing to have the cruise set to 100 and chill in the right hand lane for the whole trip. As an added bonus, I get great fuel mileage too. We all know gas is stupid expensive, so why not leave a few minutes early and relax?
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I always thought setting the cruise on a car, especially in a multi lane setting was a bad idea.
 
Only on the internet are people human, and err (mostly grammar and spelling but that's due to texting). In real life, everyone does everything perfect, didn't you all know? We're all robots offscreen i tell you.
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