26-11-13, 08:04 PM
(26-11-13, 04:45 PM)mr self destruct link Wrote: What I was taught about filtering during my course was that it's ok apart from on solid whites and zig zags, and as long as you don't go to the front of the queue.
In London it's best to sit at the front of the queue at lights and crossings, you are much better sighted for idiot pedestrians running accross junctions/crossings after the lights have changed. If you are sitting behind vans/lorries at the front of the queue you won't see much. Plus when the cars in front pull away you have to hang back whilst they jossle for lane space ahead, very often the berk on the inside will try to outdrag the berk on the outside and you know the rest -it compromise your 'progress'. Avoid such shennanigans by smartly accelerating away from the front, besides if you are at the front the cars nearly always wait for you to go first anyway.
This is what most people do in London and if you commute there you'll do the same after a while, learn filtering by watching the bikers who've obviously been doing it for years, the idiots are easy to spot, ignore them. Be confident but not cocky and it gets less stressfull.