[lbo-talk] The criminalization of the poor

// ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Thu Aug 11 19:08:14 PDT 2011


On Aug 11, 2011, at 9:53 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> At 05:23 PM 8/11/2011, // ravi wrote:
>
>> The bicycling fork of this thread reminds me of my life and times on a motorcycle, and the disproportional anger from car drivers both on the road, and elsewhere (online, dinner conversations, etc) over the practise of "lane splitting" by bikers (motorcyclists) even in states where such practise is entirely legal.
>
> lane splitting makes sense for motorcycles - so you don't overheat. it doesn't make sense for a cyclist who gets killed lane splitting (aka filtering)
>

True. I didn’t mean to suggest that cyclists should split lanes.

—ravi



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