[help] advice on riding on UK roads

Hi UKRM folks
I would like to ask for your advice on how to ride on UK roads this
summer - I'm an expat Scot coming back to blighty on an RSV and I
haven't ridden in the UK for 15 years. So, having acquired lots of
Gallic bad habits I am slightly circumspect about how not to ride in
the UK ie what speeds are 'tolerated' more or less, is filtering
allowed etc. All input welcome: otherwise I suppose it'll be
on-the-spot fines nowadays (French plate/license)?
Just for info: I'm arriving in Rosyth outside Edinburgh, heading to
Islay on the west coast, the after a week, down to Dover via the
M6/M1/M20.
Again, thank you for any input, and if I have inadvertently
transgressed any FAQs I would request your indulgence!
Happy, of course, to be of any help France-wise if I can.
Donald
Ex GUMCC
On an RSV at last (after my lovely old T595 got stolen)

 

Ride on the fucking left.

 

Motorway filtering is OK at any speed as is blasting down the
empty left lane while the other two are full.

Watch out for the new breed of roadsweeper known as "Traffic Officer"
This creature has evolved similar colouring to the venomous "Traffic Police"
so that it is treated with caution, but in fact is quite harmless.

 

- Ride on the left.
- Look both right and left when coming out of junctions.
- Make sure that when you turn, you end up on the LHS
- Don't cross over the road to approach roundabouts, thereby entering
on the exit. DAMHIK,IJD,OK
- Dunno about fines, but I don't think that on-the-spot fines are the
norm in the UK
- Filtering is fine, but cage drivers are just as blind in the UK as in
France. In fact, IME, they're buggers when it comes to letting bikers
filter and will go out of their way to block you.
- French licence? There shouldn't be any need to change. But if you do
ask the DVLA, as half a dozen people and take the average of their
replies.

 

Des, is that you?


--
Dan L (Oldbloke)

My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
Space in shed where NSR125 used to be
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow), OMF#11

 

Ummmm - Laphroaig country !

As Cab said don't expect cars to move over for you as they surprisingly
often do in France. They won't understand a waved leg thank you if they
do, but don't let that stop you.

Not so much acknowledgment of other riders as there used to be in
blighty, and still is in France.

Even filtering you will be surprised how slow your route back to Dover
may be - you forgot to mention the M25 between the M1 and M20!

 

Thanks for replies.
Will watch and follow any local riders that I find (not those on
CG125s, nor H-Ds, nor Daelims however) and try to ride... ah... more
'serenely' [ie slower].
Donald