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From: dss00@amdahl.UUCP (dss00)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Motorcycles driving between lanes -- legal?
Message-ID: <2070@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 18:37:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 18:37:57 1985
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> In article <2052@amdahl.UUCP> dss00@amdahl.UUCP (dss00) writes:
> >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.
>


> In article <4467@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) responds:

> I have a copy of the California Vehicle Code. ($2.00. 905 pages. A
> bargain!)  I can find no such law using the table of contents or the
> index. In fact, I find such a claim difficult to believe and the
> explanation quite preposterous. Unless you can give me a citation from
> the CVC I will assume you made it all up.
> -- 

I do not have the CVC. My statement re legality of motorcycle riders
passing the stationary cars by driving between lanes was based on the
statement of a CHP officer who was instructor for a traffic school
I attended to clean up a ticket.

The explanation for the reason - re overheating of engines - was
provided by a biker. Either way, I am not a biker and personally
don't like being startled by a bike zipping past my left elbow.


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