In California, its legal to split lanes. But, is it legal to split lanes at regular freeway speeds? Just say "65mph" cause thats the legal speed limit. I got taken out today by a cop for splitting lanes at highway speeds. He ran into my bike a couple times, knocked it over once i pulled over, grab my keys as if i was going to run, threw my brand new $600 helmet( 2 week old arai) and scrapped it all up after it hit the concrete. He said he was gonna take me to jail, but ended up not doing so after treating me like a pure criminal. I was on my way to effin summer school to finish my college degree and this is how I get treated. I was not stuntin, just splittin lanes, and officer dickweed tries to get me for wreckless driving....wtf? is that legal? He just scraped all my nice **** up....FTP

 

You can only split lanes at 30mph or less...it may be less than that. And I believe you can only do it in traffic. Go to the DMV website, it will tell you there.

 

I was aware that it was only legal if its 'safe to do so' as in traffic is stopped dead and youre going slow as ****.

 

damn, that sucks, i wanna split lanes man

 

you may have been wrong for what you did but i would contact an attorney for what the officer did to you......i hope you have his name.

 

he still gave me 4 citations, so i do indeed have his name and badge number

 

"Can motorcycle riders "split" lanes and ride between other vehicles?
Lane splitting by motorcycles is permissible but must be done in a safe and prudent manner."
Straight off the CHP website.

As far as I know they don't have the laws stating that "sharing" has to be done under any certain mph anymore (giving the cops more power to determine what's safe). The only think you probably did illegally was speed / unsafe lane changes. You change lanes too many times, and that's "reckless." As for how you were treated, that's fucked man... I would definetly get an attorney. Even if you were going 100 that was still excessive behavior on the cops part... especially if you started to pull over right when he first put his sirens on... though I don't get why he would bump you two times if you were actually pulling over right away...

 

Yep......15mph.....MAX. The only reason bikes are allowed to split lanes is because back before air-cooled bikes, all the Harleys would overheat sitting in traffic....thus...they made lane splitting legal, but it can only be done in between lanes.....not on either shoulder, and only under 15mph. There's no excuse for chucking your lid......stick it to that ******.

 

Do california highway patrol bikes have camera's on them? If they did, this would all be on tape and I could hella beat his azz in court...

 

some bikes do and some dont, most dont tho.

 

Sorry, bro. From what you've told us.....you're screwed for everything EXCEPT your helmet. You were splitting lanes 50mph faster than you were suppose to, which could definetly be cited as reckless. It's good to fight all tickets, chances are you'll get it reduced. If the officer chased you at ALL, then the collisions will be justified by the court. Good luck, bro. If nothing else, plea for a reduction to Exhibition of Speed(racing)......that's what I did. It carries the same jail time and fines, but is a much less serious offense. Reckless starts a criminal record(if you don't already have one). Like I said......GOOD LUCK!!!

 

hire a lawyer.. and ask them for their advice.. see what they can do

 

How much would I have to spend on a lawyer and what should I be tryin to achieve? To get my citations dropped or to sue them?

 

id focus on the citations and trying to get them reduced.. sounds like your pretty fucked if all of them go through

talk to them about your helmet too and see what they say

 

excessive force much, id have bounced on him the first time he hit me