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"They're on you before you know it and God help both of you if you've chosen the split-second to change lanes at the same moment some small, quiet, hard-to-spot rice-rocketer who's riding at high speed between lanes of sluggish traffic has caught up to you."

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You've raised an excellent point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A point I will make to car drivers out there. If you do happen to see some squid coming up on you at triple the speed limit.....he obviously has plans on passing you. Do yourself and him a favor and just stay in the same lane that you are currently driving in. You will *not* be considered a "road hog", ok? He (hopefully) has done the math in his head and will initiate his turn (or weave) a hundred or so more feet behind you in order to pass you. If you decide at this point to change lanes he will center punch the rear of your auto. I'm not saying what he is doing is "right" ok? I'm just telling you what to do to avoid litigation and an accident. STAY WHERE YOU ARE~!

Obviously if you are in the left lane doing 65 and someone (any one, car or bike) wants to come up behind you doing 75...just put your turn signal on and let them pass.

Excellent thought! I drive a full-size pickup truck and I KNOW I do not have a very good field of vision behind me, so I am very careful when changing lanes so I don't squish an econobox. The problem comes when somebody in a sports car or on a sport bike comes up fast behind me - it is really hard to judge whether it would be safer to move or stay put. Usually I will signal and move right if I can if someone wants to go faster than me.

Do yourself and him a favor and just stay in the same lane that you are currently driving in.

Yes, of course, any sensible person does that, and it's my rule of thumb. I'm a stickler for using turn signals when changing lanes, as well. The problem is that such wise advice is irrelevant when spotting a very fast-moving small, low, biker is nearly impossible in the first place!!!.

I'm talking about freeway traffic that's going between 25 and 35 mph. Fortunately, most of the rice-rocketers are smart and split the lanes at cautously safe speeds so that you CAN spot them coming up, and Harleys -- well, you see AND hear them, and they're too big to go real fast between lanes of cars. But more times than I care to think about, as I'm crusing along at 30 mph with two lanes of cars doing the same speed on either side of me, some fool on a quiet rice-rocket slips between my car and one next to me so fast that had I been changing lanes, no matter how safely I did it, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that a collision could have been avoided.