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-11 points

doing this with a motorcycle makes you an asshole, but with a bike it’s fine?

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In the UK filtering between lanes is both legal, encouraged, and widely accepted on both motor bikes and bicycles

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Legally speaking filtering is fine for both bicycles and motorcycles in the UK. I imagine if someone is the type to get mad at a motorcyclist doing this then they’d probably get mad at a cyclist too.

I will say that there’s a massive size disparity between the two, with motorbikes capable of weighing 400kg while the average road bike is closer to 10kg. I know which one I would be more nervous about when I see it weaving by me.

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If you were on a motorbike test, you’d fail it if you didn’t filter. Much more dangerous to sit in traffic.

So many people inventing laws on this thread.

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Not necessarily inventing laws, some may be applying their local laws to a video of a bike ride in a different jurisdiction.

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Which is … inventing laws. Even USians know their laws don’t apply globally, right?

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thats way to close to the cars. lets say the handlebar has a length around 70cm. the clearance between the bus and the bike can’t be much more than 5cm. i have no problem with lane splitting itself, but what this guy is doing is just stupid.

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You can see that the traffic is not moving, right?

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This is made by the kind of people that have no issues with endangering themselves, and whine the loudest when they get run over because of their stunts.

This is exactly the way to give bike riders a bad name.

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All bikes in the video are following UK law and best practice.

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And still, every iota of my post is true.

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This is made by the kind of people that have no issues with endangering themselves, and whine the loudest when they get run over because of their stunts.

This is exactly the way to give bike riders a bad name.

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