How do drivers in <Your Town Here> React to Filtering?

[TallPaul_S]

I just did some basic calculations and worked out roughly I would waste about 7 full days a year if I didn't filter and sat in traffic so yeah I am ALWAYS going to filter past even one single car to make my journey quicker.

Works out about the same for me too, on average about 20 minutes per trip time saved. Some days though it's faaaaar worse, people who live near me can take an hour and a half to get home when it's taken me 40 minutes

 

[wazza300]

But it's the golden rule

"Thou must filter past just two cars" it gives you a nice warm feeling

 

[tom_e]

I filtered past one car last night am I a bad man?

 

[Yaayuh!]

blah, blah, blah.

 

[wazza300]

I filtered past one car last night am I a bad man?

Go straight to the naughty step

 

[Craig321]

I filtered

past one car

filtered

last night

bad man?

car last night am I a bad man?

man?

 

[TallPaul_S]

What camera is that you're using?

Xiaomi yi at 1080p 60fps, it's pretty damn good quality for the price. IC3 also uses one.

 

[Fireskull]

Oops

 

[Craig321]

lmao did you do that on the way home today, just for ttaskmaster?

 

[Fireskull]

Haha no still sat at work sadly, just plugged in my GoPro and knew I must have some footage of filtering past a few cars from this week

 

[TallPaul_S]

You know that technically that's illegal though? Not sure if coppers would pull you for it, but you're only allowed to filter past the car behind the lead car on zigzags, so behind the first car.

 

[Fireskull]

Yeah I know, done it past police cars there too....

 

[TallPaul_S]

Yeah I doubt most are that bothered, but get one on the wrong day...

 

[Fireskull]

True!
I don't do it on normal pedestrian crossings, zebra etc, I can see why they would have one with traffic light crossings but if you have any sense you slow down anyway and make sure nobody is walking out between cars there, I rarely get to filter there anyway because that part of winchester is so tight and usually a lot more traffic than in that video so I take any opportunity to get past the traffic!
They've had police sitting in this area recently, quite a few riders got pulled for riding the wrong way around islands!

 

[TallPaul_S]

Yeah that's something I never do, they really don't like it when you ride around bollards/islands the wrong way.

 

[ttaskmaster]

This is a normal ride to work for me, but you'll see I don't always filter to the front

How come?
Surely the whole point of having a bike is to filter, filter, filter, always, always, always?

Filtering isn't a habit though

We were talking about riders who auto-filter regardless of conditions, which *is* a habit...

you get the odd person that might block you but I can count with my fingers and toes how many times thats been deliberate in over 10 years of riding now....

Come to Reading. You'll use up all your fingers and toes in less than a month!

 

[TripleT]

I filter past 1 car, never had an issue.

Bikes, even when not trying, accelerate faster than cars so why get held up if you don't have too?

 

[4T5]

Pretty good in my manor but then I only live 5 - 10 mins away from Mallory & 30 mins or so away from Donny so I'd call it Biker friendly for sure. You only really notice the difference when you go elsewhere, Riding down South for example is a nightmare compared to how it is around here.
Personally I have to say that all a car driver does by attempting to slow me down or block me is give me a huge smile as I ride off.

 

[Fireskull]

Come to Reading. You'll use up all your fingers and toes in less than a month!

Don't most people up that way come with extra toes and webbed feet anyway?

 

[Yaayuh!]

How squidgy can you get it?