Motorway filtering mentor

**Berries** · 10th March 2016, 18:13

Originally Posted by Hads

Ever had a car lanesplit? Scenario: You lanesplit to front of queue at traffic lights, then proceed ahead of all cars, hit 100kph zone and car moves up on your right hand side and then overtakes within the lane whilst you are doing 80kph and accelerating.

Twice now I have had this, similar spot too, lanesplit to front at Johns Rd coming to Main North, get overtaken when Main North changes to 100kph zone.

I would be pretty annoyed if someone squeezed past me to get to the front of the queue and then commenced to hold me up. You can't complain if they do it to you in that case.

**meteor** · 10th March 2016, 18:23

Filtering passed stationary traffic or lane splitting passed moving vehicles. I do both. Very carefully. No issues but never say never. I don't even guess at the legal technicalities of it. I'm probably breaking some law somewhere but so be it, I'll take that medicine when it comes my way. I commute on a bike and don't see the point to wait in stationary traffic (to get shunted from behind) and don't see the problem with riding passed slow moving traffic carefully. If I see someone move wide for me I'll always say thanks/wave, if someone cuts in, I'll wait. In all the cars I've passed I've only been yelled at once, arrived home with some spray string on my bike once and a gob full of meat from a pie on my jacket once... Ah well.

**Hads** · 10th March 2016, 20:39

Originally Posted by Berries

I would be pretty annoyed if someone squeezed past me to get to the front of the queue and then commenced to hold me up. You can't complain if they do it to you in that case.

Difference is I wasn't holding up, they split past me just to tail gate the guy in front...