02-02-12, 08:07 PM
(02-02-12, 01:24 PM)Lumpy link Wrote: Lucky I only filter about 10 mph quicker than the traffic
The rule I've been told is "20 delta 15" ie that if the traffic is going faster than 20mph, don't filter and, if you are filtering, don't do it at more than 15mph faster than the traffic.
I tend to find that the safest time to filter is when you have two vehicles side by side, because they'll at least be aware of the car or van etc next to them and won't try to move across, whereas if there's a gap, they might try to move into it without looking in their mirrors properly.
Quote:goodness knows what the speed filterers get away with.
They get away with everything, right up to the moment when they don't...
Treat every filter action as an individual overtake in its own right and don't think that the hatch lines designed to separate traffic are a "bikers filter lane"!