Lozzo

When I was commuting between Bedford and Slough every day filtering was an essential part of riding. Traffic on the M1, M25 and M4 was at a standstill almost from the time I hit the motorway until I got off it, so without filtering I'd have got nowhere. After a while your speed picks up and you start flying between the cars at normal motorway speeds even though they are stopped and there's maybe a 4 foot gap between the doors.

What bugs me about filtering in rush hour is the hordes of "go nowhere adventurous" BMW GS riders in their BMW Dakar style textiles and Schuberth lids going into London - none of them use the huge alloy panniers that are built to traverse Africa, but they're always fitted - as a consequence they can't get through the gaps. That doesn't stop them from blocking every available route through the cars for other bikes though, and they really take offence when four letter expletives are thrown their way as they're told to eff off out of the way to make room for people who can ride a decent bike properly. The BMW GS... the biking equivalent of the Chelsea Tractor Range Rover, complete with clueless pilot.