Filtering speeds / how fast do you go ?.

This

Originally Posted by Spank86

Like I said usually and not for long, and only in the interests of insanity and pratting about.

And This

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

That's safer than it looks. a) they can hear you b) they're less likely to pull into the side of the car than into you if you were just overtaking them normally and c) if they do start moving towards you just gas it.

Pretty much sums it up. It can be quite safe to pass between two cars traveling in a straight line. I usually don't filter at speeds over 50. I am careful when i do filter though. I never do more than 10-15 more than the speed of traffic.

That's a good point, I've seen a lot of random and rapid swerving in 10mph traffic queues because the cars dive for gaps in faster moving lanes and know the other cars are goi slow enough to stop... As speeds get faster that behaviour diminishes and people tend to ease over.

[tonyk]

oh hell. so if the traffic is, say 90 ish and its clear in the distance, i'll filter @100 + to get to the front.....
but i'v seen other people do this also...

Could do.

Of course while the probability of accident may not increase as you would imagine, the scale of the consequences certainly does.

Originally Posted by tonyk

oh hell. so if the traffic is, say 90 ish and its clear in the distance, i'll filter @100 + to get to the front.....
but i'v seen other people do this also...

I think in that situation i will sit in the fast lane signaling to overtake and wait to clear the pack. Unless someone is really not getting out of the way. But be careful some of the ones that purposefully don't move over are the ones that swerve at you when you try to pass.

For me it's 10-20mph tops, and only if traffic is stopped or crawling at or under 10mph. I have been known to go faster, but mainly on big wide roads / motorways.

Whatever speed you filter there is ALWAYS a bloke on a ratty bandit behind you who will go 15mph fatser

[mep]

At the police Biks Safe they suggest fitering at a speed where you are moving no faster that a walking pace past the traffic, ie max around 3-5 mph faster than the traffice. This will enable you to react to any hazzards etc.

In town I will not filter untill the traffice speed has dropped to around 20mph.

I tend not to filter on other roads unless there is a long slow queue of traffic for some reason. I don't ride much on motorways, but would employ a similar tactid to town.

This is a usual filtering day for me

[DJ123]

i filter at a speed where i am making good progress and the risk does not out weigh the reward. The speed depends on the environment in which you are attempting to filter through. If you have plenty of space, room and time to plan your gap you can filter at a good rate. Again, this is dependant on the speed/type and location of the road. On the motorway i generally keep with the flow, unless it drops below 40ish and i can safely make progress.
Overall i wouldn't exceed more than 15mph faster than the vehicles i am filtering past.

I usually filter when I'm in a hurry to be somewhere, which means I'm doing way more mph than I should. 100+mph wasn't unknown when I was commuting daily down the M1, M25 and M4 to work in rush hour and I only had two small incidents in 18 months