Filtering

MowyTone said:
After watching a bit of RJ and BvG (or any other London vlogger) has anyone else noticed they have adjusted how they filter in certain situations?
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Having just watched one of RJ's vids, I am struggling to unclench my fingers from the armrest!!
Unless he has wicked peripheral vision, he seems to go blasting past a lot of danger points without looking - Might just be the distortion/angle of the camera, though, as his bike seems much narrower than it appears from the video POV.
 
The camera does distort the view quite a lot, on video it looks like tiny games and looks like you're almost scraping cars - when in reality there's loads of room.

Dunno about anyone else, but this is quite relaxing watching for me, just effortlessly scything through traffic. All depends on whet you're used to, for someone who's never filtered past a single car, this may seen reckless and crazy. To anyone who filters regularly, it's accurate, precision filtering. And you'll notice he give it a little gas when going through gaps, this is to reduce time exposed to danger.

 
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I feel i end up pushing down on the handles when filtering two up, its definitely a skill to hone in on. I only really get the opportunity a couple times a month.
 
TallPaul_S said:
Dunno about anyone else, but this is quite relaxing watching for me, just effortlessly scything through traffic. All depends on whet you're used to, for someone who's never filtered past a single car, this may seen reckless and crazy. To anyone who filters regularly, it's accurate, precision filtering. And you'll notice he give it a little gas when going through gaps, this is to reduce time exposed to danger.

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It's nice to watch problem with filtering like that is in central London when there's loads of traffic some idiots see a gap and take a chance to change lanes & fill it without really looking. I might be tempted to filter like that if I took the baffles out and had fully comp insurance but right now I avoid doing it if the traffic is moving.
 
wazza300 said:
anyone filter two up? does tend to focus you more,bike weaves more aswell
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I prefer not to, only because the Mrs is kinda heavy and very fidgety. Pain in the ass... She also rides, so is one hell of a bad Back Seat Rider and complains if I don't filter where she would (ie past the only 2 cars at the lights) but then screams and cringes when I do filter (at decent speed past long lines of traffic). Bad enough taking a corner with her on, as she tries to lean the bike for me, but also hates how far this bike leans and so sits too upright.

TallPaul_S said:
The camera does distort the view quite a lot, on video it looks like tiny games and looks like you're almost scraping cars - when in reality there's loads of room.
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That's what I was thinking.
He's also got a very narrow-looking bike whereas I'm used to a big ol' Tourer, so I'm seeing those gaps from that POV and cringing!!
 
Yer love seeing big lumbering GS's sat in traffic as they can't fit through gaps due to their (probably empty) silly massive square panniers :p
 
His filtering is quite impressive. Though to be fair at some points, I'd say questionable. Certainly here you'd get a lot of beeping from cars if you filtered like that. At least he blips it to let people know he's there. Most of filtering that happens here is just people going way over the speed limit towards oncoming cars on the wrong side of the road. Really gives bikers a bad name.
 
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