Filtering on dual carriageways

How fast? More specifically, to make good progress but be generally
acceptable to the forces of lawanorder?

I don't usually start filtering until the traffic, and therefore my
speed, has dropped below about 30mph. I then have a sort of hysteresis
where I don't stop filtering until I'm doing above about 40-45mph max.
I don't filter at more than about 5-10mph above traffic speed.

ISTR being told on last year's advanced riding assesment (by ex
class-one police rider) that filtering up to about 45-50mph was OK,
which surprised me. Did I hear right?

 

One of the 'rants' heard the most often by me of my colleagues and friends
is that bikers are mad cunts who filter at '80 km/h' above the speed of the
traffic surrounding them. In other words, with a speed differential of 50
mph or so.

My 'self-imposed' limit is that if 'ambiant traffic' is at 80 km/h, there's
no need to filter. My personal 'best' (or 'worst') was filtering at 200
km/h _indicated_ (124 mph) on the A13 on my Bandit, but that was
fuckwittery of great magnitude.

Over here, filtering is illegal, but tolerated (for now).

 

Bear says...

<coughs>

I've followed you filtering up the M1 at 100+ 'a fair bit' mph.

 

You're kidding? I knew it was illegal in Germany, but I though France
was rather more laid back.

 

Do you practice the kind of filtering that Trinity does with The
Keymaker two-up in The Matrix Reloaded on a Ducati 996?

 

Bear says...

I'm not one to talk. I must admit to filtering like a **** at silly
speeds. It really gets my adrenaline pumping.

 

genuine_froggie fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Try telling that to all those loonies on Peugeot scooters !!!!

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and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

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Nick fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

UKRM taught the bitch well uh!

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Bear says...

 

It was that conversation about Counter Steering that did it.

I have also, coincidentally just finished watching The Matrix
Reloaded, and thought that I should post the 53 second clip in
question.

DivX @ http://hayn.gotadsl.co.uk/filtering.avi (3.5Mb)

 

As long as it ain't dangerous....?

On the M25, if the traffic is moving at 30+, I don't filter. It's as
simple as that. There's always some twat who thinks: "Oooh, that lane is
moving 1mph faster!" and who lane-jumps with no indicators, no look to
see if you're coming, no nowt.

They don't expect a bike to come alongside them in heavy traffic moving
at (say) 35mph.

Remember: "It is better to be a few minutes too late in this world than
a few years too early in the next."

In snarled up traffic in town, of course, I filter like Kona.

 

The cops who taught the BikeSafe London course said, that filtering
5-10mph faster than the surrounding traffic was acceptable. With the
proviso that you ride safely and with due care.

 

So 75-80 is acceptable?

 

As long as it ain't dangerous....?

On the M25, if the traffic is moving at 30+, I don't filter. It's as
simple as that. There's always some twat who thinks: "Oooh, that lane is
moving 1mph faster!" and who lane-jumps with no indicators, no look to
see if you're coming, no nowt.

They don't expect a bike to come alongside them in heavy traffic moving
at (say) 35mph.

Remember: "It is better to be a few minutes too late in this world than
a few years too early in the next."[/QUOTE]

You've been talking to too many pilots.

 

Bleh - I don't filter much faster than the traffic, and tend to hop
from safe spot to safe spot. I doubt I'm much quicker than 10mph
faster than traffic, but that's what I'm happy with. I practically
never look at the speedo though, so it's anybody's guess.

 

Lozzo wrote:

<remembers end of EOSM last year>

we didn't do too badly iirc. for a B12 especially.

 

*ding*

The only time that I reckon is mroe dangerous is when traffic is slowing at
different rates. As one lane halts, there is always some moron that thinks
he'll keep moving if he nips into the other lane that's still moving.

Nice phrase.

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Doesnotcompute says...

That was quite fun really. I used to do that kind of trip every day on
my Bedford-Slough-Bedford commute

 

Wot he said. It's illegal, but tolerated. So I think that's fairly laid
back.

 

genuine_froggie wrote:

8<

They better get ready... i think there may be some going on at the end of
April "up't north end tha nose"