right behaviour during heavy traffic

[The Tazman]

I filter on principle. I don't ride a bike to stay in queues, if cagers don't like it (most are OK) they can buy a bike too. Besides, being first at the lights gives me a good safety cushion when they change.

well said I feel the same way. I have seen over here quite a few sitting in traffic. Not from the guys I have met on here though

Taz

[pommie girl]

(I should add I've only got done once for splitting in my 1st year of riding due to a very silly assumption about a cop being too busy issuing a ticket to get me.. so I reckon the above rules aren't too bad when I've riding the mwy pretty much every working day since 2000)

ENJOY!

Man, I've been lucky then because about twice a week I pass a police car either while I'm lane splitting or while I'm on that small strip on the right of the fast lane on the northern.... The other day I passed about three on my usual jaunt into work

[Zed]

Man, I've been lucky then because about twice a week I pass a police car either while I'm lane splitting or while I'm on that small strip on the right of the fast lane on the northern.... The other day I passed about three on my usual jaunt into work

I'll pass a cop while lanesplitting if he's in a cage and if the traffic is stopped or quite slow. If he's a bike cop you can forget it! And if the traffic's flowing at over say 40kmph then I'll happily go wth the flow - until there are no cops in sight.

Oftentimes I don't see police in motorway traffic until just as I'm passing them...I think "ooops, wonder if he'll sound his siren?". Not a good feeling.

[Zed]

...the risk of doors opening as the bike goes past must tend towards zero??... (supports my philosophy!)

Yeah I lightly chuckled inwardly when people started discussing the *imminent danger* of car doors opening suddenly when lanesplitting. Never witnessed it myself? :spudwhat:

[Will]

Well, I have read all the previous talk and no one has picked up on the obvious.

There is a major safety issue when you leave the lights first. And it is not car doors.

Just beware of all the red light runners.

Don't want anyone to get hurt.

Safe riding

Oh and by the way, I lane split and light split.

[Zed]

Well, I have read all the previous talk and no one has picked up on the obvious.

There is a major safety issue when you leave the lights first. And it is not car doors.

Just beware of all the red light runners.

Good point and thanks for your concern! I'd say that an experienced rider should have the common sense to check both ways for red light runners, etc, when taking off at the lights. But in saying that, often our concentration is fixed on the vehicles we are 'between' at the lights and what they are going to do?

[Waylander]

Also should be warned about Taxis. Filterd up to the lights next to one and the guy started yelling at me and shit. I ignored him and he tried reaching out his window to grab at me. Looked at him and he flipped me off then tried to run me off the road when the lights turned.

[Zed]

Also should be warned about Taxis. Filterd up to the lights next to one and the guy started yelling at me and shit. I ignored him and he tried reaching out his window to grab at me. Looked at him and he flipped me off then tried to run me off the road when the lights turned.

That Taxi experience would be one the exceptions to the general rule...not very common. Like the guy that pushed his pitbull out his drivers side window to nearly tear my head off one day as I filtered past him, and the few 'kind-hearted' folk who have swerved over so I cannot split past them, oh and then there's the *shouters* who will wait till you are passing their open window and scream at you to try and scare you!!

[surfchick]

i just started filtering on my last few rides. i passed about 60 cars in a que this morning was in between them all and then felt all self conscious about my L-plate. pulled meself back into me lane and was well behaved. i'm sure the car drivers were a sittin there waiting for me to clap into someone's mirror and i decided i wouldn't be giving them the pleasure... i think if the traffic is stopped- what real harm is it to drive in gaps??
won't be doing it on the M-way though. It's too mad-house.

[Waylander]

That Taxi experience would be one the exceptions to the general rule...not very common. Like the guy that pushed his pitbull out his drivers side window to nearly tear my head off one day as I filtered past him, and the few 'kind-hearted' folk who have swerved over so I cannot split past them, oh and then there's the *shouters* who will wait till you are passing their open window and scream at you to try and scare you!!

Was thinking at the time that maybe a NY cabbie had followed me down here lol.

[Ixion]

Also should be warned about Taxis. Filterd up to the lights next to one and the guy started yelling at me and shit. I ignored him and he tried reaching out his window to grab at me. Looked at him and he flipped me off then tried to run me off the road when the lights turned.

Meh . I hates taxi drivers. hatesesss them. Especially Indian ones. They all seem to be totally shitty bolshie drivers, with a huge chip on tehir shoulders.

[Waylander]

Meh . I hates taxi drivers. hatesesss them. Especially Indian ones. They all seem to be totally shitty bolshie drivers, with a huge chip on tehir shoulders.

Maybe it's a job requirement for cabbies to have a bad additude. Nah most are ok here other than thier crap driving.

[pommie girl]

then there's the *shouters* who will wait till you are passing their open window and scream at you to try and scare you!!

I've had that - wondered what on earth was going on and figured at the time that I'd just passed someone having a screaming argument...

[Sutage]

I always laugh when i see a sign saying.. RED LIGHT CAMERA UP AHEAD.. surely the best way to catch them is to not tell em

i guess it does stop them tho.. hmm

[Zed]

I've had that - wondered what on earth was going on and figured at the time that I'd just passed someone having a screaming argument...

Nah, they see you coming in their rear vision mirror, wind down the drivers side window, take a huge breath, and let you have it when you go past...jerks! "Off with their heads I say!"