Speed of the filter is incredibly situational, as long as your heard and seen.
Aye. Speed of the filter is also the difference between 'making due progress' and 'riding dangerously', but equally subjective. Depends on the police officer.
There is an oft-cited rule/guideline known as the 20-20 Rule.
Never filter faster than 20mph above the speed of surrounding traffic and never filter if the traffic is faster than 20mph. That way you're going at a max of 40mph.
Just a guideline, though - Often it will be more appropriate to go considerably slower.
A good point to raise, one I've always wondered is, especially on the subject of RJ and BvG is 'filtering' on the nearside of a vehicle, surely this is classed as an undertake, which is somewhat frowned upon..
Undertaking is basically executing an overtake but on a vehicle's left side. In other words, pulling over into teh left lane and then swinging back to the right once you're done. It's considered dangerous, so is an offence.
However, if you just happen to be in that lane and going faster than the traffic in the right, that is just classed as making due progress not undertaking.
If you're a motorcycle going between two lanes for more than just a couple of cars , that is filtering and again separate. If you're going to the left side of the leftmost lane, that is definitely dangerous, definitely undertaking and also why it can be a test fail if a vehicle is stopped in your lane to turn right and you pass down the left.
If you are filtering on the right and the oncoming traffic is stationary is that now filtering though...?
Nope. No different to if there were no oncoming traffic at all. You're still just overtaking the traffic in the lane going your direction.
Filtering = going past traffic going the same way as you.
Lane Splitting = When you go down the middle with on-coming cars still moving.
Wiki, I know, but it was first on the list:
"Lane splitting is riding a bicycle or motorcycle between roadway lanes of vehicles driving in the same direction. More narrowly, it refers to overtaking slow or stopped vehicles by traveling between lanes. It is also sometimes called lane sharing, whitelining, filtering, or stripe-riding".
I believe the reason overtaking is a separate thing is twofold:
1/. On a multi-lane carriageway, overtaking means moving to the next lane outside to pass the slower vehicle.
2/. On a single carriageway, the dividing line ridden/crossed is variable and overtaking is not always permitted and so subject to rules not normally encountered with filtering.
Agin I'm always have markers where to dive in if needed.
Ja - Corners!!!
Soooo many people understeer on corners these days!
