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New user
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San Jose, CA | Hey All ~
I'm currently a HD Electra Glide owner but have been infatuated with the Victory motorcycles for a long while now. My fiance and I are totally into the Victory Vision and even the Cross Country Tour. My questions is, How is the Victory Vision when it comes to Lane Splitting? I do it now on my full dress Electra Glide with out any problems. That is the only thing keeping me from getting the Vision. If it's not possible then I'll have to get the Cross Country Tour.
Oh Yeah, I Live In California where it is legal. |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 785
Mt. Vernon, WASH. | According to the GOOGLY Machine thingy- VV 44.2 in wide, H-D FLHTP E Glide 38.2 in. wide, and Vic XC 39.2 in wide. |
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New user
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San Jose, CA | Hmmm, That is good to know. Never really thought to measure it. LOL. Thanks. Those few inches make a bid difference. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 55
| I try not to split lanes unless its at a light. Yes, the bike is wide at the mirrors, but I am just aware of that and look before I go up the middle, and that the additional width is right where car mirrors are in alot of cases. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 251
Mechanicsville, VA United States | Having power is what makes lane spliting fun and interesting and do-ad-able .....Victory's got that covered!
Edited by diamonbird 2013-04-22 6:38 PM
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Visionary
Posts: 1229
Rancho Cucamonga, CA | I haven't had any problem keeping up with others lane-splitting, but there is a difference between following and leading when lane-splitting. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 238
SF Bay Area | I do it all the time. I spent several years splitting from mid-peninsula into SF (daily commute) on my '08 Vision, no problems. Funny, sometimes I punch a hole through traffic, but other bikes don't seem to want to keep up with me... maybe I am doing it wrong! |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 15
San Francisco Bay Area | I live in the Bay area. I split all the time on my Vision. Yes, it's easier if an HD touring bike is leading, but people generally move out to give you room.
Go for the Vision, you won't be disappointed. I went from a Road King to my 2012 and 19000 miles later haven't looked back once. |
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Tourer
Posts: 520
Simi Valley, CA | I live in So Cal, and own a Vision. I very rarely lane split. The faring of the Vision doesn't have the mobility of most bikes and I have clipped one too many mirrors.
My wife rides a Victory Vegas and when I do lane split I lead, and she like having me part the way for her.... But like I said I do it very rarely. Most So Cal drivers are too busy texting, reading their Ipads, putting on their makeup, or talking on their phone to pay attention to the road.
Tim |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 9
| No lane splitting allowed here in the D.C. area :-( |
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Cruiser
Posts: 241
Monrovia, Ca | I split in So Cal on occasion. That would not be the deciding factor to me. |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 1066
Peru, IN | Cometman - 2013-04-23 11:25 AM
Most So Cal drivers are too busy texting, reading their Ipads, putting on their makeup, or talking on their phone to pay attention to the road.
Tim
And that's the reason why I'd never lane split no matter where I lived. |
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Iron Butt
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Anderson, IN (48mi NE of downtown Indianapolis) | LA Victory Rider - 2013-04-23 11:38 AM
That would not be the deciding factor to me.
+1
There are so many good things about the Vision that its ability to lane split never crossed my mind. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 155
Stockton, California | I do not split lanes too often but when freeway traffic is packed then splitting lanes has been no problem. |
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Tourer
Posts: 457
Green Bay, WI United States | Never split lanes but I do remember the CHIP's splittin lanes at a high rate of speed back in the 60's when I lived in California. Here in Wisconsin we just pass the traffic how ever we can and get out front and leave the cages behind....... :-) |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 17
St Cloud, MN | I rode in California for 30 years before moving back to the midwest. I use to lane split all the time. Now I'm in MN where it's not legal. However back in CA, once or twice I clipped a mirror (or they clipped mine).
Anyway point I want to make is not only is the Vision wide, but the mirrors are rigid, so should a clip happen, you have the rely on the car's mirror giving way.
If I had the Vision in CA, I believe I'd still do it, but it would increase the nervousness of an already sometimes tight situation. |
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Puddle Jumper
Posts: 25
| The front of the Vision is wide, but too wide for lane splitting? Probably not. Just have to be a little more careful when doing it. Looks like lane splitting will be coming to Nevada soon. Don't know if I'll do it much, but may do it some in just the right situation. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 92
| Having transplanted to OH from So. Cal, I was ignorant to the fact that you could NOT split the lanes here. I found out real quick that drivers here were not use to it. Actually had one old boy in his pick-up try to catch-up to me blowing his horn the whole way. Luckily there was a lot of stopped traffic (the reason I was splitting to begin with) and he never caught me. Cagers get real PO'd when they have to sit in traffic and you don't. Anyone in CA can probably relate to splitting the 405, 5, 10 or the 15 and have a car ahead of you block up off. I never let it bother me, it made me feel that much better when I did find the opening and was able to leave them behind.
Don't know what the big deal is, there is plenty of room (even for my VV) I was very surprised to see how many states have laws against it. But then again, one only has to watch some of those You-Tube videos from foreign countries where they ride anywhere and everywhere and some of the crashes that have been caught on film. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 122
Westchester Co., NY | For me it depends on the highway. Some have lanes that are wide enough to split but around my house there are several highways that are very old. The lanes tend to be narrow. I used to be able to split lanes on my TC that I just cannot do on my VV. |
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LANE SPLITTING ???
