why is it that some bikers are inpatient in traffic? if you have to scrap your leg past a car the gap is too small, yet i still repeatedly see some doing this
(mainly learners on x-motos, sorry to give a bad name) but those who do this give all bikers a bad name. just wait 2 bloody seconds for the gap to open upor read the road ahead before you make a move. anyway rant over.
it’s all in attitude. you could ride a zx12r and never hear ram air noise. don’t worry about unnecessary stuff, that’s what i say 
They’re probably couriers. Just move over when safe to do so and let them go.
The whole point of being on a bike is not to sit in traffic. A gap that’s too small for you might not be too small for the next rider, or maybe it’s too small for them too and then they’ll look a right plank when you let them through and they can’t actually go anywhere
I’m always ignoring that kind of behaviour. Don’t worry, stay where you’re.
Why to put yourself in danger when some idiot want you to go?
Last weak driving down to Soho I was stuck in traffic. Saw a nice spot just between bus lane and car in front of me. Decided to stay where I was. Some crazy moped rider couldn’t resist passing me. Went for it and the same time bus came down the bus lane. Moped rider got squeezed between taxi in front and the bus. Everybody stopped and looked at this guy on his 2 wheel thing like at idiot. Luckily just a lot of scratches no injuries.
If you don’t see 100% safe way of passing through spot stay at your place. You can always try to rev your bike, sometimes works and people make you more space. Even when you see safe pass think forward because some car drivers doesn’t indicate and they may hit you. Driving in traffic is dangerous and you never know what can happen no matter how good you are. Be reasonable and stay safe!
its a bonus but not the reason i got a bike 
do you not touch the sides then? 
Being on a bike indestinguishable from A4 paper, width-wise, from a front-on view there are very few gaps that I can’t get through!
Thing is, being on a 125 - each car that takes two seconds to pass while it’s crawling along at ten miles an hour in traffic or sitting at the lights can hold me up for a good five minutes while it’s pootling along at twenty-five because I don’t really have the punch to get into the oncoming lane and back again even allowing for a fairly sizeable gap in oncoming cars.
Obviously when I’m out in the twisties I’m alot less impetuous - there’s no point me squeezing past a couple of cars at great risk to my life and limb and their paintwork only to have them haring past again as soon as the road opens up and making me feel like a prat.
Given the choice I’d rather sit back, relax and enjoy the ride - but when I want to go somewhere quickly and there’s nothing but the nearside wing of a selfishly driven Avensis stopping me, the first chance I get to get past it I’m going to take!
The answer, I suppose, is that some people are simply knobs.
I try never to hold up those with thinner bikes who want to filter faster than me and will pull across wherever possible to let them through. Of course, it’s not always possible and here I must mention the dispatch rider who arrived behind me at speed and then revved furiously as we were extruded between the lanes squeezing on to the Fulham Palace Road from Hammersmith - I’m sure you know them. Nothing was moving and you couldn’t have squeezed through sideways holding in your tummy, let alone on a bike and yet there he was, whizzing the nuts off and going red in the face. The comedic part of it was that 30 yards later he turned off and parked to deliver his package. QED.
One of the answers to this is that we should be thinking twice before overtaking in towns. Once because almost any overtake in town is probalby going to take us over the speed limit (where I live, it’s nearly all 20mph anyway), and twice because going much over the speed limit in town to overtake can be a great way to put ourselves in the way of an accident.
If you do a Bikesafe, you’ll be advised not to filter if traffic is moving at more than about 15mph.
Filtering in Budapest is not the best of fun…Car drivers pay almost no attention to what’s going on around them…Main beam and a few revs clear a few out of the way but most just sit there like cabbages - or pull over to stop you having any chance of getting through…Had a young guy on a little scooter with a HUGE box on the back (pizza delivery guy) hassle me in traffic. Let him pass and he said something or other as he went by. His coffin sized box clipped a stationary bus right in front of me and he landed on his arse:D Wasn’t hurt at all but I had to smile:)
We also have a scarey thing here whereby a driver coming from a side road on the right has priority over those on the main road - but not always:w00t: If there is a Stop sign he must do so ,if not just carry on. Problem is that there are no signs on the mainroad to warn of this…Had a few rows over it only to find I was in the wrong;)
I started biking here in UK but I heard from my polish friends back from Poland that motoriders who filter are not welcome at all. Drivers try to get into their way and even open doors to stop them from passing :w00t:
no gap is never too small 
never too small, pull over and let the faster vehicle through…thank you…
hmmm so that’s why people let me pass them and go
my moto is wait just a few seconds a safer moment will arise in just a few seconds…and always does…and it slows us bown but a moment.
If I have room to let them go then I do, but some of the things I have seen on the way to and through the blackwall tunnel makes my blood curdle.
I’m never in that much of a rush to get to work !!
:rolleyes:
rushing to work is not right ! unless you are doctor at hospital and you going to save somebody’s life
I was going to do Bikesafe but just changed my mind - don’t filter above 15 mph? May as well drive the car into work.