So many bikers are hurt when a car suddenly does a U turn in busy traffic yet bikers still filter. Just wondering if everyone does it?

I suppose when you think about it, it is safer to filter when there is oncoming traffic than it is when the oncoming road is clear...as you always get mr impatient who sees a gap and pulls out to do a quick u turn!

Random post i know lol its just something i was discussing with a mate today!

 

Yes I do it but Im always very wary of the cars Im going past cos some fookers are just oblivious to the rest of the world when they sit in a car.

 

No matter how carefull you are though mate it happens so quick! Watch this fooker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3SzpLfEpw

forward it to about a minute!

 

I was in a traffic jam once and we were next to a texaco garage and having been sat there for what seemed like hours, I decided to open the door and go the garage as we were not moving. I was in the back and as I opened the door a motorbike came from nowhere and hit the open door bending it back and falling off the bike.

I felt really bad, but all he cared about was getting back on the bike and leaving. I assume he wasn't a legal rider as he was very quick to leave, claiming he was fine when he looked as though he'd hurt his leg and his bike was a bit scuffed. Him doing one didn't bother me, as I didn't have to claim on insurance!!

Fucked the strap thing on my door, and it bent all the front door too, which was a shame. My own fault I guess. If my window was down he might have gone through it, lol.

Benni.

 

Nasty that Lee. Its always the risk we take filtering. You can see the Focus swing in before he gets to it, I look for things like that too when Im riding as Im always unsure if they are just moving aside to let you through or if they are gonna try and whip it round. Couple of my mates hate filtering behind me cos Im pretty slow and on and off the brakes whereas they just zip through. Id rather take my time and not have that happen to me thanks very much.

 

I agree mate, filtering at a very steady pace is better than queing in the traffic!!!! So youre still getting somewhere rather than in a car!
Let your mates filter first if they dont like it, youll be even safer then

 

Does my head in nearly happened to me on my old gsxr1000 should be a instant ban you'd fail your test if you didnt use your mirrors!

 

You would fail your test if you did 100 plus mate but majority of bikers seem to think they can on all roads

We all make mistakes! Ive nearly wiped a bike out on a roundabout and i look for bikes all the time as i am/was a biker...i just genuinely did not see him!

 

I have been on a course up in kingston all this week and have been filtering pretty much all the way there (30miles approx) I cant belive the amount of people that seem to try and stop/slow you down by getting in the way,

had a young indian/asian bloke in a kitted up civic pissing him self with his mates as he cut me off so I waited behind him for a bit then the traffic came to a total stop so I pulled up the o/s side of him told him to use his fucking mirrors, he then called me a fool, think it is safe to say he didnt like having me punch fuck out of the mirror leaving it hanging, as much as I tried it couldnt get it off as I wanted to post it through his fucking window

 

pmsl Matt

 

well done matt

of course i filter, it's what biking is about. fuck sitting in traffic

 

No Chop, biking is about enjoying the ride not getting wiped out! But i agree it has its advantages! I only did it in traffic that wasnt likely to u turn like the vid above!

What bike you got now? Gixxer still?

 

So explain to a non-bikist, 'filtering' is overtaking a stationary queue of cars at a steady pace?
Thought that was the only advantage of no crumple zones

 

lol yeah filtering is passing stationary or slow moving traffic at a steady pace, although some bikers fly past as if theyre invincible!

 

As much as i love bikes.....it's that type of attitude that sees alot of bikers on their ass after being hit by cars! As a couple have said, steady paced filtering so you don't have to sit in traffic is fine, but ultimately you are overtaking people which is always a risk when you're not using a seperate lane as such! Why on earth they think it's fine to filter at 60mph i don't know, it's so easy for them to sneak up on you without being seen. The thing that really pisses me off is when bikers overtake traffic when you're coming towards them, using your side of the road trying to force you off the road.....ultimately you're highly likely to come off worse when you come off your bike so why some people seem to wanna raise the stakes of it happening i don't know

 

Because too many bikers put thier own lives in the hands of other people instead of taking care of it themselves mate

 

dad only does it just above walking pace slipping the clutch as he goes, i hate to see these people who fly about on bikes because as much as they dont want it too, and other people dont, their luck is bound to run out one day and its really a shame for all bkiers to be tarred with the same brush imo

 

Exactly my point really.....i hate to see bike accidents etc but just can't help feeling a fair few of them could have been avoided. Putting your life in the hands of car drivers are who are usually totally unaware of bikers is just madness imo

 

As far as speed goes I will do up to about 25 30 on the motorways when its at a standstill or very slow, I have no problems filtering at speed like when other traffic doing 50-60 on the motorways but my mate will not filter unless the traffic has stopped

Gotta love the front facing average speed cameras on the m3 motorway atm

 

yep i just take it bit slowely thats all

 

when i took my bike test i was told to filter if you don't you are not making reasonable progress and fail, with saying that got knocked off when a lady in a BMW decided she didnt want to wait and just did a u Turn and they never find in a bikers favour as we are all hooligans.

Pete

 

your first line made me laugh, "its the attitude of bikers" "after being hit by a car" lol unfortuantly the majority of the time bikers get knocked off by car drivers is down to the following,

car drivers not paying any attention to whats going on around them

in a rush so not paying enough attention

or just being a shite driver.

Unfrotunatly people pass there driving test but that doesnt make them a good driver it just means they can tick the boxes and reverse around a corner, imo i think everyone should have to sit a cbt as part of there driving test which might make them appreciate and understand bikes on the road

 

Fyi i have ridden bikes mate so i know what's what and have plenty of time for bikers....glad i made you laugh though
Doesn't really make any odds to me if you're happy to get knocked off your bike by a car safe in the knowledge that it was 'his fault' or he was being a shite driver, rather than perhaps trying to avoid the incident in the first place! As for making me laugh, you're comment of car drivers being in a rush did tickle me somewhat

 

Still have the old 750 yes but desperately want a newer one

 

i find alot of bikers have a good attitude and when possible i do move out of the way to let them pass safely,but as always there are the ignorant ones who dont give a shit and abuse you if you dont move not realising that although they have the speed they can not always escape. i use to ride up until 3 years ago when i was nearly wiped out twice in a week i just give up. both times inexperienced little tossers

 

How can a biker "try and avoid the inciident" when most the time its people pulling out at the last min infront of bikers and knocking them off. Take that video above for example how could the biker have avoided that accident or made the chances of him being knocked off reduced apart from not filtering at a crawling pace?

You can asses a situation but 9 times out of 10 these types of accidents are cause purely down to the fact that the car drive wasnt paying attention.

I remember filtering 1 day and came up to a junction on the left so slowed right down as i came up to the gap in trafic there was a car in the middle of my lane turning right so i stopped. I sat there about 1-2 mins and waited for him to move off but when he did he was paying that much attention to the traffic coming the other way he totally over cooked the turn and started driving straight at the car next to me and at me lol.

I ride like EVERY other road user is a complete bellend and thick cunt and tbh the amount i come across i'm probally not far wrong lol

The majority of car drivers just dont look out for or appreciate bikes on the road end of imo

 

i do it - and ewas knocked off last year doing it. exactly as you say, nothing coming the other way so some prat decides to do a sudden u-turn when i am level with him and his mirror squashed my fingers and sent me down. i was expecting a stupid move though, so was only doing 10 - 15 mph and was not hurt and the bike (vfr) was hardly damaged

 

i go past everyone as fast as possible
but i think everyone hears me

that vid was like it was premeditated, bosh!

 

When i first passed my test when i was 21, i turned in to a complete LOON, id be going through Blackwall tunnel @ close to 100mph in rush hour at times

Now im older and wiser, and lost a bit of my bottle, im no where near as bad, but tbh you have to always be one step ahead and treat every other road user as a cunt!!! and you do tend to be able to spot a bad driver a mile off..

When i had my last bike id be filtering through moving traffic doing around 30/40mph id prob be doing 70...

 

i filter but slow no excuse for not seeing me,you hear me long b4 u see me,harley with strait thro slash cuts ....LOUD PIPES SAVE LIVES!

 

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spot on fella, im the same!

 

pics

 

 

 

there ya go lee hope you like! an 883 with 1200 conversion,screamin eagle cams,exaust stage one tune.

 

Yes mate very nice!