Longest Filtering

[AlexAdams]

What's the longest queue you've filtered past? The M5 was closed tonight and the A38 was stationary from Taunton to Bridgwater so that's about 8 miles of squeezing past! I must have ridden past more than a thousand cars queued up!

[andrewsmith]

About 14 miles across the central belt

There is advantages to wearing white helmets

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[maviczap]

About 12miles or a bit more on the A14 north of Cambridge, a notorious section which often gets gridlocked. On our way to AR11 i think

[thulfi]

Probably about 15 miles+ on a standstill M1 not long ago. So very satisfying. The more miles filtered, the more the satisfaction. Can't help but feel sorry for the suckers stuck in traffic and how crud it would be if I was in the car myself. Smiling all the way home.

[andrewsmith]

About 12miles or a bit more on the A14 north of Cambridge, a notorious section which often gets gridlocked. On our way to AR11 i think
Didn't someone hit the a1 and have to filter around Newcastle

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[carelesschucca]

Hmm, I Combat, Blueflame and I filtered all the way from Oxford past Newbury to the end of the bypass. all because of a broken down car. Thank the lord we weren't in a hurry to get the ferry.

Also done from Ballinluig to Luncarty on the A9 when a tractor was holding up a 17 mile queue of traffic. I was nearly in tears by the end of it, I should have just stayed with Bibio that day and done the 4,000,000 mile* trip he was doing that day.


*probably an under estimate

[DJ123]

Bank Holiday Monday from Cornwall along the A303, probably the best part of 50 miles or so.

[RPM]

Bank Holiday Monday from Cornwall along the A303, probably the best part of 50 miles or so.

Lol, that'll do it!

[Red Herring]

About 13 miles, but I was in a car.......

Lorry overturned across the M25 near Clacket Services, traffic backed the entire length of the M26, but I was able to use the hard shoulder with exemptions so I suppose that doesn't really count does it ;)

I remember it well though because the load, boxes and boxes of Malteser sweets most of which had split open, was completely across the road. We cleared them with shovels chucking then through the open windows of the cars as they filed past.

[BanannaMan]

About 10 or 15 cars. LOL
I've only filtered in the UK as it's not allowed in most of the US and thankfully didn't spend much time riding in traffic the last time I was there.
I did enjoy what filtering I did though,
even if some barsteward with a white van tried to run me head on into an oncoming car in Wales.
Apparently he didn't believe in filtering. :rolleyes:

[Luckypants]

Bank Holiday Monday from Cornwall along the A303, probably the best part of 50 miles or so.And I thought I'd win with my approximately 20 mile filter through a tail-back on the Autoroute around Lyon. Crashed cars at the head of the queue, which were being cleared. When the Gendarmes let the traffic go, he held the cars until the bikes were away..... we had about 30 miles of empty Autoroute to play on :D

[garynortheast]

2008, almost the entire distance from just north of the southern loop of the M25 to the start of the M20.

[Littlepeahead]

Mr LPH has twice gone to Glastonbury festival on the bike. He was all smug about filtering past miles of festival goers in cars the first time until he realised that his beer and tent were in one of those cars miles back with the mate who was driving down. Year two he loaded the bike up.

[maviczap]

Perhaps we ought to have an annual longest distance filtering cup/award :p :santa:

[RPM]

Mr LPH has twice gone to Glastonbury festival on the bike. He was all smug about filtering past miles of festival goers in cars the first time until he realised that his beer and tent were in one of those cars miles back with the mate who was driving down. Year two he loaded the bike up.

I would think there was an even bigger advantage getting out?

[AlexAdams]

8 miles made me feel smug! What must 50 do! (it's actually hard work, probably just shattered)!


Hmm, I Combat, Blueflame and I filtered all the way from Oxford past Newbury to the end of the bypass. all because of a broken down car. Thank the lord we weren't in a hurry to get the ferry.

Also done from Ballinluig to Luncarty on the A9 when a tractor was holding up a 17 mile queue of traffic. I was nearly in tears by the end of it, I should have just stayed with Bibio that day and done the 4,000,000 mile* trip he was doing that day.


*probably an under estimate





Mental note: must go riding with Bibio.

[Toooldtodie]

20 miles along the A414 when the M25 was shut due to baked bean spillage!! Everyone defected to this single lane road. I arrived at work 15 minutes later than normal, my colleagues in their cars 2 hours late. Felt like I was riding on the continent (right lane!). Happy days!

[Davemurphy007]

So your workmates turned up 2 hours late, you had to do all the work in the meantime, everybody gets paid regardless...........

.......and you're the smug one? ;)

Not feeling that argument. Lol

[DJ123]

8 miles made me feel smug! What must 50 do! (it's actually hard work, probably just shattered)!








Mental note: must go riding with Bibio.



You get to feel the warmth that hate generates ;) To be fair the majority of drivers, where possible, were courteous and made gaps for us to get through. On other sections it was like driving on the continent!

[Toooldtodie]

So your workmates turned up 2 hours late, you had to do all the work in the meantime, everybody gets paid regardless...........

.......and you're the smug one? ;)

Not feeling that argument. Lol

Hmm, good point, well made!

I am a professional, and doing my job to the best of my ability means everything to me!

Did you feel the sincerity there?! After all, you are what you drink, and I'm a bitter man.

[Davemurphy007]

Yeah I think I got the general flavour of your statement :lol:

A potential double-edged sword to commuting on a motorbike then - traffic is no longer an excuse for being late?

[Red ones]

I commute 30 miles each way on the A1(M) every day. Doesn't this mean I do a 30 mile filter every morning?

[Tomor]

Bank Holiday Monday from Cornwall along the A303, probably the best part of 50 miles or so.

Yep that was pretty tiresome!

[johnnyrod]

2008, almost the entire distance from just north of the southern loop of the M25 to the start of the M20.

Back in '94 I was working in Kent for the summer and there were various roadworks on the M25. On a Friday night they would back up from one to the other, no idea what sort of distance I filtered but also from the M20 to the M40 would be mostly traffic.

[Fordward]

I commute 30 miles each way on the A1(M) every day. Doesn't this mean I do a 30 mile filter every morning?



I was about to ask, does nobody on here do London at rush hour?


You can filter 20 miles M1 Toddington Services to the M25 on a bad day.


Or Watford anti-clockwise all the way round to Heathrow about 20 miles, or clockwise M23 to Heathrow about 15 miles, all a car park at 8 in the morning.


A14 can be solid right the way from Brampton Hut to Cambridge Science Park, that's 20 miles. I'll be doing 7 miles of that queue to get to my office tomorrow morning.

[ClunkintheUK]

I used to do London rush hour commute, so I reckon I've got about 1000 in any one winter (didn't go fun riding) of solid filter. Just watch out for scooters who have no idea.