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- From: dmatejka@netcom.com (Daniel Matejka)
- Subject: Lane Splitting: a new twist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.191047.6732@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:10:47 GMT
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- Just another data point in the Great California Whitelining Discussion.
- If you're threading cages and one of them decides to hit you, it's
- your fault.
- I was doing the careful whitelining bit, barely over ambient speed
- in stop-and-creep traffic, down 880 in Berkeley. A space opens up to
- my right, and the guy to my left decides he doesn't have time for a
- signal before taking that spot. So he broadsides me, and I go for a
- low speed face slide on the freeway. My bike throws itself to the ground
- in a fit, spitting out bike parts, and I miss three Christmas parties.
- The cops had to think about it for nearly a month, but they've decided
- it was my fault. They didn't hand me a ticket, but it's me who pays
- for Mr. Excitable's right door.
-