On a motorbike is weaving in and out of traffic illegal?

[Lum]

If filtering were illegal, why are there so many A and B roads around these days where the white lines are replaced with a small hatched area, not much wider than a bike, with a broken border meaning it's perfectly fine to enter it.

Then again, plenty of car drivers don't realise you can enter these hatched areas anyway. Therefore once they become one lane wide they make a great replacement for the old-fashioned "suicide lanes" for overtaking as you can be fairly sure that anyone else using it is at least reasonably competent.

 

[Lord-Jaffa]

I have had this a lot on the motorbike. It really infuriates me. Last time it happened at some traffic lights, I got of the bike, put it on it's stand and walked toward the offending car. The driver suddenly became extremely interested in his Cd player. It's not worth losing your temper over though.

Did you take a keyboard with you?

 

[Phate]

this thread just smacks of 'boohoo got overtaken by a biker while stuck in traffic' syndrome, hence asking if it's legal or not.

Actually not in the slightest. If you really wanted to know it's because of the possibility of starting a new job at the end of next week, of which I'll be wanting to get a scooter/bike because of the collosal amount of traffic that hits Brentwood everyday (it's as bad as London) and I'd get a bike to avoid this and wanted to know if it's legal.

Mmmmkay?

Now chillax a bit, I've never once insulted bikers, infact I'm a very big fan of motorbikes

 

[ShakenNstirred]

Filtering though stationary or slow moving traffic is AFAIK legal,
but I have found most car drivers hate 2 wheeled road users doing it, as they have to sit in the traffic.

I cycle a lot & filter on the outside of stationary or slow moving cars,
& more than once I've had car drivers move out into my path just to slow or stop me going past.

had that done to me lots of times, you see them look in there mirrors and then move over lol
in my old two stroke days before aircon and if they had there window open i`d blip the throttle as i went past and he`d get a car full of two stroke smoke

 

[dannyjo22]

what annoys me is when bikers filter on the left on a 3 lane motorway at 70mph when im in the outside line, if they just waited I would pull in, but normally they just overtake on the left, are they trying to get killed?

I see that a lot on my way to work. Last week a lorry over took another lorry and just at the point where there was clear air between the front of one and the back of the overtaking lorry a bike went through the gap. Right at the point you would expect the lorry to move back to the left lane.

Both myself and the guy I liftshare with tensed for the accident. Suicide and I can't understand why they can't wait a few seconds like the rest of us for the overtaking vehicle to move left.

 

[bloodiedathame]

Overtakes are fine in the right place. Undertakes be careful, they aren't illegal but you can be done for dangerous driving if you get caught.

 

[mr jamez]

I see that a lot on my way to work. Last week a lorry over took another lorry and just at the point where there was clear air between the front of one and the back of the overtaking lorry a bike went through the gap. Right at the point you would expect the lorry to move back to the left lane.

Obviously a noob, a proper biker would have done a stand up wheelie between them.

 

[Phate]

Obviously a noob, a proper biker would have done a stand up wheelie between them.

Whilst wheelspinning.

Obviously

 

[Griffo]

haha.

Also, I think a lot of confusion has occurred here as "weaving" implies different behaviour to "filtering". Or at least to me weaving means...weaving, left and right and left and right. Filtering to me means moving through two same-direction lanes of slow traffic.

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I'm just popping between the two cars there, unless they don't want me to walk ever again.

I'd do a daft attempt at what I consider weaving, but it would take the rest of the day to find the right combination of characters and Microsoft haven't invented Paint yet, and as far as I am aware FTP has also not been invented either.

 

[Scuzi]

Did you take a keyboard with you?

Nah, my keyboard panniers hadn't arrived in the post so I had nowhere to carry it.
Do you drive a bike yourself? I'm very different on a bike compared to driving a car. If someone does something stupid to me when I'm in the car the absolute worst I'll do is give them a hand signal. On the bike I seem to lose my temper easier, probably because some of the things other drivers do can absolutely scare the crap out of me. A mixture of anger and fright can make the best people do strange things. In the aforementioned incident I was going to go up to the drivers window and have a word with him. I'm not the violent type.

I have done a couple of stupid things which were completely out of character to make my point when I was younger and I'm not one bit proud of them.

 

[Griffo]

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I have done a couple of stupid things which were completely out of character to make my point when I was younger and I'm not one bit proud of them.

And finally I understand what your sig means!

I get very annoyed in the car when I see people seemingly purposely getting in the way of bikes.

 

[Northwind]

Filtering is legal but is 'at risk', that is it's the biker's responsibility to ensure their safety, not the people in the two marked lanes.

Not actually true. Davis V Shrogin 06 removed the ambiguity and established solidly that the drivers' obligations are exactly the same as in any other driving situation.

 

[Griffo]

Not actually true. Davis V Shrogin 06 removed the ambiguity and established solidly that the drivers' obligations are exactly the same as in any other driving situation.

'bout time.