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Originally Posted by 604STIG
Just wondering where you are seeing all the "whining" from these people that you say are splitting and crashing? I'm always on the bike sub-forum here and used to be heavily active on our local bike forum but can't recall a single instance of anyone ever complaining about lane splitting and then getting into an accident?
And i'm not trying to "call you out" on this, i am genuinely curious if there is a lot of this type of complaining going on somewhere.
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Don't worry if you call me out, it won't be taken personally
The complaining I see on regular basis from both bikes and cars is at my work on construction sites. Although I'm in an office now, I used to be on sites in the middle of a street/intersection in an open hole anywhere from 3 - 15 ft deep. We've dump trucks going in and out and you'd be surprised at the things people will do... Even with lanes shut down and having flag people in the road you'll still see occasional splitters and dumb drivers. I've witnessed cars drop their passenger side front end into a hole while I was still in it...with the lane beside us closed off yet they're oblivious and put not only their lives at risk, but mine as well. At my work there's tons of complaining about it and every time we see something happen it would make us furious. Split to the right of a dump truck and I bet they won't see you. Even when my mirrors are set right and I'm beside another vehicle the last thing you expect to see and notice is a tiny little bike squeezing through. I complain with first hand experience seeing it as completey unsafe here. I really don't care what some professor has to say in his statistics about how it's safer.
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Originally Posted by cdizzle_996
Only whining in reading is the guy who made the thread.
People who split lanes dangerously, do so at their own risk.
End of story.
BRB: Going to make a thread about how I'm cut off by cagers every single day because they're too lazy to turn their fucking head before they switch lanes.
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Yeah. They do it at their own risk dangerously or not, and when they're hit, go see if they do it again.
Whining - welcome to the Internet.