While the guys made some good points in this video, unfortunately what was shown in many of the spots in this thing was NOT "lane splitting" in slowed traffic, but was IN FACT cutting through traffic while the rest of the traffic was flowing at what appeared to be near the posted speed limits of the roads.
And thus unfortuantely I felt these guys gave out "mixed-signals", and as such undermined their, and by association in a manner of speaking, MY argument.
Yes, attempting to ride slightly faster than the traffic flow IS usually a safer manner in which to keep from being caught in a cager's blind spot, BUT there are times in which a rider CAN and SHOULD do this and times when they CAN'T and SHOULDN'T, and I felt these guys did this WAY TOO often in this video at times when they SHOULDN'T be doing this.
Once again, it makes TOTAL sense and IS safe for EVERYONE on the road to be able and ALLOWED to pull between stopped traffic at red lights, and then once the light changes to green, pull ahead and away from all the sheet metal out there with your name on it AFTER you've made that final last-second check for cross-traffic, OR while on a nearly stopped line of freeway traffic and "lane-split" at THAT time...BUT like I've said here, what these guys did too many times and what THEY referred to as lane-splitting but WASN'T and when it wasn't necessary OR prudent to do so.
(...in OTHER words, these guys were NOT the best of advocates for what I'VE been tryin' to get across in this thread...hell, maybe I SHOULD make a freakin' video and show how to do it CORRECTLY...eeh, but then again, what's the use!...like I've already said in this thread more than a few times, the people in the rest of the 49 states will NEVER "get it" 'cause they have NO HISTORY of this concept and it's contrary to their established "culture")
