Filtering on dual carriageways

Too true.

As a steady rider I am sometimes scared shitless by some bloody sprotsbike
rider tanking past me.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Heh, car drivers fall into 2 categories:

Those who see a bike in their mirror and pull over to give more room, and:

total cunts.


--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

<snip>

This was my previous MD's favourite phrase.

I did point out, during one board meeting that "at the end of the day, the
shops shut and the street lights come on, so what's your fucking point?"

This was not well received.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Heh, I tried to hand crank over a Morris Minor with the timing 180° out.

Nearly broke my wrist it did.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

I just think that running on main beam is going to piss (some) people
off, and it's really not necessary. If I had to chose between
filtering "safely" (i.e. using main beam, in your terms) and not
filtering, I think I'd chose the latter - what right have I got to
dazzle other motorists?

 

Ditto.

Showed ozmick the way to filter on the M4 coming back from the Corden
weekend.

Mighty glad I didn't have the earpiece still in with him commenting

Cheers,

Paul.

 

I like filtering in moving traffic, but filtering through standing
traffic at speed gives me the willies.

Too many cages get fed up with the wait and switch lanes without
warning, so I find it tenses me up quite a lot, as I expect the
unexpected, for mile after mile .. !

Cheers

Paul.

 

wrote

I really don't like filtering at all but it simply has to be done or i
might as well take the cage.

Filtering through standing traffic and not *constantly* monitoring and
moderating my speed is what gives me the willies.

Not my experience.

at which point I do the moderating bit of the exercise.

A whole minute? Not sure I would want to stay that tense that long
these days.

 

Try filtering on that road overnight on Midsummers Day. The hippies
have a party right there on the road while trying to get to Stonehenge
before dawn..

 

been

You don't RC. I met you at the first services on the M4, and we rode
down to Bristol, met Mat, and then practiced going round a roundabout,
then we met Champ, and me and Mat swapped bikes, Mat rode like a ****,
and then the exhaust fell off my Bandit.

You rode like a fairy, all day.

 

Thank you. That's my new thing learned for the day.

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

In the car I tend to get in the way of inconsiderate buggers who leave
main bean on. FFS in daylight you don't need lights unless you're a
pouf and the use of full beam is adequately covered in the HC.

 

Oh my fucking God, TOG is my mum[1].


[1] She's been quoting that at me for as long as I can recall.