This Law Isn’t Just Dumb—It’s Deadly. And It’s Coming to Your State Next....
Politicians call it “lane filtering.” ER doctors call it “donor delivery.”
Donor Cycles and Legislative Lunacy
You ever sit in traffic and suddenly feel your blood pressure spike because some jackass on a motorcycle screams past your car doing 60 between two lanes of barely moving vehicles? That sonic boom of entitlement. That whiff of burnt rubber and raw stupidity. It’s not just rude. It’s dangerous. It’s legalized chaos and Colorado just handed it a permission slip.
Let’s rewind.
In April of 2024, Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 24-079 into law. It went into effect in August of the same year. The bill legalized what’s called "lane filtering"—a sanitized term for letting motorcycles slither between cars like caffeinated snakes when traffic slows to a crawl. And wouldn’t you know it, by the time the calendar flipped to 2025, Colorado had racked up a record-breaking 165 motorcyclist deaths. The most in the state’s history.
Coincidence? Maybe. Stupidity? Definitely.
The brains behind this bill? Senators Nick Hinrichsen and Jim Smallwood. Representatives Javier Mabrey and Ron Weinberg. Congratulations, gentlemen. Hope you sleep well while ER doctors call these machines what they truly are: Donor Cycles.
And Governor Polis? He called it a "three-year trial." Because nothing says responsible governance like experimenting with human lives on I-25.
California’s been playing this game since 2016. They allow full-blown lane splitting. And sure, they’ll show you a spreadsheet with fewer rear-end collisions. But you know what else they have? An 18th-to-22nd highest motorcycle fatality rate in the country, depending on which year you cherry-pick. But hey, as long as the data can be massaged into a warm bath of plausible deniability, let’s all pretend we’re saving lives while more organs show up in hospital coolers.
You want the list of states already letting this circus run? Here it is: California, Utah, Montana, Arizona, Minnesota, and now Colorado thanks to the 2024 law.
You want to know what other states joined the Darwin Games? Utah, Montana, Arizona, and now Minnesota—just signed their bill this July. And the AMA (not the doctors, the motorcycle people) will swear this is about safety. Efficiency. Rider comfort.
Spare me.
What I’ve seen and what you’ve probably seen, is a bunch of leather-clad speed demons weaving through traffic like it’s a video game. The law says they can only do it when traffic is slow or stopped. But when have rules ever meant anything to the guys with the loudest pipes and the least patience?
And here’s the kicker. In both Colorado and California, if there’s an accident while a biker is splitting lanes, it’s YOU, the poor sap sitting legally in your car, who could end up holding the liability bag. That’s right. The biker risks nothing. You get the court date.
So next time one of these pavement cowboys zips past your window like a pissed-off wasp, remember this: our legislature not only invited it, they protected it.
Motorcycles are already dangerous. We all know it. ER doctors know it. Families burying their kids know it. But instead of tightening the laws, we’ve opened the gates wider.
Call me crazy, but legalizing recklessness and then blaming the victims feels like the exact brand of backwards thinking that’s rotting this country from the inside.
What about the copycats still cooking bills in legislative backrooms? Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee — all have lane-splitting or filtering legislation on the docket, flirting with giving this lunacy the green light.
If your state is considering this stupidity, you need to contact your state legislators and your Governor, and ask him or her to stop this nonsense right away. Don't wait until you're the one being blamed for someone else's highway circus act.
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Donor Cycles. Lane Filtering. Legislative Lunacy.
And the rest of us? Just collateral damage in someone else’s thrill ride.
Oh boy, good luck out there!
Lane filtering makes sense when the law is written right and it is a practice allowed in the right scenarios.
Lane splitting I can see as dangerous but even the AMA is an advocate for it and they cite the sources pretty well.
https://americanmotorcyclist.com/rights/ama-board-position-statements/lane-splitting/
lane filtering helps alleviate traffic congestion and reduce the chance of rear collisions. Allowing motorcyclists to move to the front makes sense.
The issue in my mind is car drivers not being aware of the law. And governments and motorcycle groups doing a poor job of letting it be known when something changes.
Also, until every state has a helmet law there’s really no point in arguing about whether or not we should be allowed to split or filter lanes on a bike.
I notice most of those are liberal states coincidence, /there are no coincidences. Only planned detriment to human life by these liberal politicians, why are we not auditing the bank accounts of these liberal politicians?