Thank you.
I will never understand why people driving cars have an issue with motorcycles “lane splitting”, especially at stoplights. FFS, they’re going to take off much faster than you and be out of your hair, and in front of you, where everyone is safer.
I think there’s something to this “me first” mentality that permeates car AND bike riders that makes people into assholes.
I have an issue with it because it’s illegal here, and also kinda dickish.
It’s all in one’s perspective.
RZ Mother-Fucking 350 Rider Here!
Split lanes in Southern California for a few years. Lived to tell about it. Got clobbered by a stupid fucking teen-aged cunt talking on her cell phone. 98% to dead.
I don’t even enjoy riding anymore (still have 8 bikes) because of the cell-phone culture and the idiot car makers putting video screens into cars.
Oh well. Some museum will pay handsomely for them.
Get a real motorcycle, will ya? 
Good enough for Kenny Roberts, good enough for me.
Some of our smaller brained fellow road users see the line up at a stoplight as a queue. Regardless of whether you’re going to accelerate faster and be out of their hair, you’re still cutting to the front.
You should sit at the back of the line, not because you physically need to, but because I earned this place in the line and my life is a series of disappointments, small and large and I’M NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE! I’m going to roll down my window and call you a sister fucker! 
The next time I’m in a food takeout line, I think I’ll cut ahead of the old people in front of me. I’ll complete my purchase much faster than them and be out of their hair, so everyone will be happier.
Queues and waiting at a stoplight aren’t equivalents. There’s no “teller.”
I do live in CA, and lane splitters are crazy. It’s one thing to lane split when the traffic on the freeway is bad and cars are going 10 MPH or less (but even then it’s risky). However, motorcyclists routinely lane split when traffic is going at the speed limit, and/or doing commute hours when car drivers are typically at their worst-- switching lanes without notice just to get one car ahead in traffic. It’s especially bad when they go the same speed as the cars, get in your blind spot and you have to keep moving your head around to make sure you know where they are.
Wow, 8 motorcycles! I guess you really know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to ride away, and know when to run.
Wrong Kenny. Kenny Rogers was The Gambler.
A couple of months or so ago, my wife and I were driving on a 4 lane divided highway in rural AL. We were going along with the flow of traffic and there were a couple of vehicles in front of us going the same relative speed side by side. I saw 3 bikes coming up in the right lane. Two big cruisers and 1 sport bike. I knew they looked like they were impatient and I was going to give them plenty of room. I cannot control how they ride, but I am not going to be the one that jams them up and becomes a part of a wreck.
They all pulled in front of me. Then the sport bike split between the other two vehicles (who were going highway speed) and then backed off the car in the right lane by applying his brakes. The other two bikes then moved into the right lane ahead of their buddy and they all shot off down the road.
Moves like this is why drivers hate bikers. Most of us don’t do stuff like that, but in their minds we are all guilty.
Guess I should have used a smiley. That’s the joke
it’s the same thing which causes drivers to close the gap if you dare try to merge ahead of them. Or pull out of a driveway/side street in front of you even though there are no cars behind you. “I have to be first!”
the only “bikers” I know who would pull that crap are 19-year-old douchebag wanna-be alpha males. no surprise he was on a sport bike.
When I ride I don’t go fast, I like to just cruise. I watch out for trouble constantly. I act like I’m invisible to everyone else on the road and try to predict what the stupidest thing traffic around me might do, and often I’m right. But I ride for the experience, not just to get from point A to point B as fast as I can. If I’m in danger from anything it’s from looking at the scenery too much.
Agreed.
But most drivers do not really seem to distinguish between sport bike riders and others.
If you are a sport bike rider, you are going to do stupid stuff and if you ride a cruiser you are a 1%er.
That is mainly why I have started limiting my riding to the countryside.
It’s interesting to note that, at least in my experiences, the riders that take the least risks (generally Harley riders) wear the least amount of safety equipment (helmets) than do the risk taking sport bike riders.
At a stop light, cars wait in their lanes. Motorcycles have more lanes to use, the ones with cars in them and also the spaces in between. So a motorcycle can take that space.
It’s similar to a car pulling up to a red light where there are 3 lanes. If 5 cars are lined up in one lane, 4 in the second lane, and none in the third lane, then if the car pulling up changes lanes to take the empty lane, it isn’t cutting in front of anyone.
Same thing. Motorcycles have more ‘lanes’ to use.