Kalifornia allows ‘white lining’. My cousin’s husband calls them organ donors.
In theory, I agree with white lining. At 20MPH or less. I’ve been stuck in Kali freeway (parking lot) traffic before on a bike. It’s the pits. Above that I agree with my cousin in law. And I’ve seen it done at 55+ in heavy traffic.
Kicking a cage while on a bike, is Darwin at its finest. The motorcyclist got lucky.
I don’t believe he was whitelining. It was in the carpool lane. He was behind and then to the left side, probably because the sedan was too slow. But the guy on the bike tried to go around on the left where there is no white line between lanes, just shoulder and divider.
If you kick at a vehicle which weighs 4-6 times our vehicle’s weight, you might be a Darwin winner.
Side issue. People who are in the carpool lane and going sower than the lanes to the right shouldn’t be in the carpool lane.