Can Cycles Filter?

Are push-bikes allowed to filter?

 

When there are perfectly good gutters reserved for their use? I should
fucking cocoa.[1]


Soy.
[1] I have no idea what that means.
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Soylent Green wrote

"I should cocoa (or coco) - I should say so. British rhyming slang" from
some online quote dictionary. Sounds like so much bollox to me.

 

And what might they be?

 

I dont mean undertake in purpose cycle lanes but I mean, are they
covered by the same filtering laws as motorbikes. I cycle a fair bit
because town is always gridlocked and its the fastest form of transport
.... but when I weave through stationary traffic I sometimes get abuse
and was wondering if I'm in the right or in the wrong?

 

Holy shit!

 

Was told on my course that bikes are allowed to filter, legally, through
"no overtake lines", cycle lanes, bus lanes, road hatchings to protect
traffic turning into a minor road, etc etc. Was told that the only lane
you are NOT allowed to use is the hard shoulder.

Wondered if that applied to push bikes too.

 

I take it from your exclamation that the instructor may have his facts
wrong!?

 

Ask for a refund and spend the money on a copy of the highway code.

 

There are no laws at all specifically governing filtering. Some of the
examples you give, though, will have you nicked for Careless/reckless
straight off and others for lesser offences.
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Well I'm glad I asked now, might save me some points when I get my bike!

Ta.

 

You think?!

 

Crikey

I'd have a read of the Highway Code & Road Traffic Act a bit sharpish like if I
were you! You're likely to need a lot of dosh for fines.

Most bus lanes can't be used by motorbikes. A happy little £100 fine awaits you
in Greater London.[1] Most buses have front and rear cameras to catch
transgressors, and TfL are quite manic about sending out the fines.

Some parts of the country do allow it, but you have to check the signs first.

Cycle lanes are also just that. For cycles of the un-motorised variety. Fines
await. You can also be done for entering the cycle box at traffic lights.

No overtaking means precisely that, matters not if you're doing it on a
motorbike rather than a car. It would be a rare day for the Police to do you
for it if you were filtering, but you still run the risk.

Cross hatchings depends if they're surrounded by a solid or broken white line as
to how frowned upon it would be to use them to overtake, and as a general rule
of thumb I would be very wary of them. If the traffic is that heavy that you're
bimbling past a line of traffic towards a ghost island, that's usually the point
where a bored car driver will pull a quick turn.. without looking or using his
indicators.

Please take note that these are things you *could* get done for, but like
speeding etc, it's really down to you if you want to run the risk. You must
follow your own path, Grasshopper.

[1] Apart from the A41 going through St John's Wood. where they allow
motorbikes. [2]

[2] The GLA are looking at allowing motorbikes in all bus lanes across the
Capital, a move supported by the Met on safety grounds.

 

Skip wrote

I also but not for legal reasons. Often they are avoided by traffic and
thus marbles of all shapes sizes and degrees of sharpness tend to
collect there. Usually not a good place to be if you need to do any
life saving input with anything approaching a degree of enthusiasm.

 

Well I wont be getting my bike till '06 now.. the DAS set me back a
wedge and I'm a bit poor at the moment (in English: I'm going skiing in
December).

Least I know now! I do have the Police Rider Handbook (A.K.A. The Bible)
by Roadcraft and the Motorcyle Handbook published by the DSA. But
haven't, so far, delved past the first few chapters of the handbook.
Lots to learn!

Only so much you can learn though WITHOUT a bike :-(

(snip excellent summation of grey areas concerning filtering).

John

 

There are no such things as "no overtake lines". A solid white line means
that you cannot cross it except to pass a slow moving vehicle (something
like 15mph). If the vehicle pulls to the left and there's plenty of room,
then you may pass when safe to do so.

Of course, that doesn't stop drivers passing cyclists even when the
cyclist is doing 30mph. Oh no.

Push bikes are not permitted on the motorway, so the hard shoulder rule is
irrelevant, whatever it may be.

 

The court can take the bicycle off him, just for being a ****. [1]

Yay. At last, a sensible use of justice.

[1] I recall hearing of a case in Coatbridge Sheriff Court, where the
defendant was accused of being drunk in charge of a bicycle time after
time and being a menace on the road. Court effectively banned him from
riding his bike for a few months by ordering the bike to be impounded
and prohibiting him from cycling until the Sheriff thought he was a bit
more sober in his habits.

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Dave

GS850 x2 XS650SE / SE 6a

I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

 

On a push bike you must obey exactly the same rules as a motor
vehicle.

 

They'd fail me for emissions just now then.

 

There is nothing illegal about drink cycling.