if only cars obeyed the road code and "kept left" we'd be fine.
"isnt splitting dangerous?" they say... "only if you dont follow the road code and use defensive driving techniques" I say.
if only cars obeyed the road code and "kept left" we'd be fine.
"isnt splitting dangerous?" they say... "only if you dont follow the road code and use defensive driving techniques" I say.
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Friday afternoon travelling north on southern before we all got to do the Takanini Tango Tangle, traffic flowing nicely at a sensible 90-95km/h. But not enough for two sportbikes which were "filtering" through every thing at 110km/h+... All lovely until something happens and one or both become human crayons...
That would mean the drivers taking their hands off their mobile devices and holding them up in front of their face while they stretched out their thumbs to see which hand/thumb made the "L" shape to indicate "Left"...
I filter, I decide when I think it's safe and when I think it isn't.
I filter with my Hazards on - because the greater number of Flashing lights I'm legally allowed to have on my bike, the greater the chance that someone will notice it (and therefore notice me).
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The amount of lights you have are irrelevant. As I have said before, if they cant see a bus, or a truck, or another car, they are sure as hell not going to see you. You could have a search light from the Air Force Orion strapped to your bike strobing like a mobile disco and they STILL wouldnt see you.
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." - Anatole France
ZRXOA #9170
It could be (probably will be) argued that if the overtaking was done without crashing or injury, then it is patently safe...
My point was: I filter lots. Seriously, large amounts of filtering and pootle to the head of the queue all the time.
When I'm driving the car, I have to resist the temptation to "head for the gap" and filter...
Well, until I get my dream vehicle which is a monster truck snowplough with the > shaped front on it!
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Hmmm.... I was there on Friday afternoon too! Was on the bike sitting in moving traffic at about 80 km/hr. A sportsbike which was orange and grey shot through two lines of traffic at over the limit. Ok, an accident waiting to happen, but what was the point when the traffic was flowing freely? Wonder how much time he saved and what his stress levels were like?
Harrumph - must be getting old
Actually, I had to filter on the Southern Motorway heading south on early Saturday morning due to an accident near Hill Rd. Was pretty impressed that cars were clearly using their mirrors as many of them increased the gap for me - awesome!
Neither of the bikes was painted in undercoat grey, so definitely wasn't you...
I think the two we saw were probably not capable of registering "stress"...
True about many drivers being more aware, found that in the last couple of years of commuting.
We'd driven north from the Manawatu on Friday, via National Park, and enjoyed the sight of a group of Milwaukee Tractors muscling their way through traffic approaching the roundabout at the Waitomo Caves junction - but even those things can't muscle a B-train out of the way...
And then there are the two cocks whi split up Main North Road this afternoon.
Traffic travelling at 60, speed limit 60. These two cocks hurtled up the middle of the two lanes at maybe 80 ish. Like Darwin nominees.
Wonder not why cops come down harsh at times.
You have just described an event from January 2017 while the traffic was at a standstill around Paikakariki (Southward Car Museum)
2 loud sound powered bikes weaving at speed through multiple lanes of stationary traffic.
after quite a while in the heat, I finally came upon those likely lads, having an interview with the local
meanwhile the rest of the traffic whom they had passed slowly cruised past.
this was around that same time of all the hoopla about more lanes opening......
READ AND UDESTAND
If you're in slow moving traffic and start filtering, check very carefully that there isn't someone behind you already doing it at warp speed. That's definitely the scariest moment I've had filtering.
What gets me is the number of tin tops that state they were 'surprised' when a bike goes past them in the gap.
FFS, bikes lane split every day on the motorway. Why the F$% is it a surprise.
When I'm in the cage, I KNOW there will be bikes lane splitting. I'm certainly not 'surprised' as they go past.
I'm only wearing black until they develop something darker
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