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From: shilo@t4test.UUCP (Shilo Jennings)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Motorcycles driving between lanes -- legal?
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 16:50:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 16:50:05 1985
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> > What I want to know is this:  Is it legal (in California, or anywhere)
> > for motorcycles to drive between lanes, or on the shoulders, when traffic
> > is backed up?  I've seen lots of motorcyclists do just that, and also
> > the CHP motorcycle patrol.  It seems to be a dangerous thing to do.
> It is legal for motorcycles to drive between lanes if the traffic
> is backed up and not moving. If the cars in traffic are moving, then
> the motorcycle is not supposed to pass them by driving between lanes.
> I think the rule has something to do with the fact that the bike engines
> are air cooled and over heat if the bike is kept idling for too long.
 
  Although bikes overheating is VERY true, that was not the basis of the law.
Also, it doesn't have to do with traffic moving either(but personally i would
not do it if it was). The law actually states  it is ok for two vehicles to
share the same lane if there is room (two bikes , or a car and a bike).Neither
vehicle can pass the other one at more than 5 miles an hour over what the other
is doing. Passing on the right or left shoulder, even tho it looks safer will
get you a ticket.  THAT is the law(in California, not in a lot of places) and
even the cops do it every day. There is a stipulation about staying in the 
same lane tho, not weaving in and out of traffic like you see a lot of smaller
(mostly Japaenese[flame expected]) bats -i mean bikes- doing.

				-scj-
Doesn't this belong in net.cycles?