If you want to see idiots on bikes come out to LA and drive northbound on the 405 at 4:30. Whether traffic’s going 5 miles an hour or 60 bikes are weaving in and out of lanes and splitting lanes like there’s no tomorrow.
We always have 2 or 3 fatalities on that one freeway alone every year.
I saw that phenomenon just a couple of weeks ago. I saw crotch rockets weaving in and out of slow traffic at speeds thirty or forty miles an hour faster than the car traffic. I asked my brother in law, a LASD Helicopter pilot, why the police don't chase them and give them tickets said to me, "
we just scrape them off the highway when they crash."
California is the only state in the country that allows MC to split lanes but the law says they can only move 5 miles an hour faster than the traffic....which I saw none of them doing.
I was going to rent me a MC at Anaheim HD and ride up the PC Highway but the traffic I saw in LA really discouraged this...However, a trip up Trubuco Canyon made me plan to rent one and go there next trip.