Ace

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:50 +0100, Paul Boyd
<usenet.dont.work@plusnet> wrote:

>Ace said the following on 02/07/2007 09:12:
>
>> Not illegal, no. Your wording paraphrases the highway code, which does
>> not have the force of law; in practice undertaking, or any other sort
>> of filtering, is tolerated (indeed encouraged by police motorcyclists)
>> as long as it's safe. An accident that occurs while so doing will tend
>> to be judged the fault of the person doing said filtering. In other
>> words, filter at your own risk.
>
>It sounds like I stand corrected :-) I still felt nervous when I
>consciously undertook a cop car caught in slow traffic on the M5 a few
>weeks ago!

I remember one time, some years back now, I was proceeding north on
the A5, when I saw several bike plod in my mirror just as we
approached a red light (at Hockliffe, beds). I filtered a bit, but
discretion/valour and all that, I decided not to push all the way to
the front. They had no such qualms, however, and pushed all the way
past, at which point I decided to join them. Once I did so, the
rearmost of them paddled back a bit to have a word.

"Oh-oh" I though, he must have clocked me speeding further back, but
in fact all he said was that they were out on a training ride and that
I'd be welcome to ride along with them "if I could keep up". Needing
no second invitation, I followed them all the way up to MK, before one
of them blew up his Pan-Euro. Fun, it was, although I had to hold back
a bit in order to not embarass them, of course...

Rob Morley

In article <8chh83lb5tjd4i756ua4bmibft4v10a727@4ax.com>, Ace
seesig@virgin.net says...
<snip>
> they were out on a training ride and that
> I'd be welcome to ride along with them "if I could keep up".

Cool :-)

Chris Malcolm

In uk.rec.cycling Ace <seesig@virgin.net> wrote:

> I remember one time, some years back now, I was proceeding north on
> the A5, when I saw several bike plod in my mirror just as we
> approached a red light (at Hockliffe, beds). I filtered a bit, but
> discretion/valour and all that, I decided not to push all the way to
> the front. They had no such qualms, however, and pushed all the way
> past, at which point I decided to join them. Once I did so, the
> rearmost of them paddled back a bit to have a word.

> "Oh-oh" I though, he must have clocked me speeding further back, but
> in fact all he said was that they were out on a training ride and that
> I'd be welcome to ride along with them "if I could keep up". Needing
> no second invitation, I followed them all the way up to MK, before one
> of them blew up his Pan-Euro. Fun, it was, although I had to hold back
> a bit in order to not embarass them, of course...

I can no longer afford more powerful bikes than the police. But back
in the good old days when they only had 650cc Triumphs I once spotted
a police bike shadowing me as I leap frogged my way past endless
nose-to-tail 50 mph traffic queues on a main road. So I very carefully
kept my speed under 70mph and kept my eye on him.

He held back in the distance for a long time, but eventually after
several miles moved up and pulled me over in a particularly slow
section.

"Jesus!" he said, "I had a hell of time catching you! Do you know how
fast you were going?"

"Never more than 70," I said smugly.

"In a 50mph limit!" he pointed out, opening his notebook with a big
grin.

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Bryan

On 3 Jul, 11:24, Chris Malcolm <c...@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I can no longer afford more powerful bikes than the police. But back
> in the good old days when they only had 650cc Triumphs I once spotted
> a police bike shadowing me as I leap frogged my way past endless
> nose-to-tail 50 mph traffic queues on a main road. So I very carefully
> kept my speed under 70mph and kept my eye on him.
>
> He held back in the distance for a long time, but eventually after
> several miles moved up and pulled me over in a particularly slow
> section.
>
> "Jesus!" he said, "I had a hell of time catching you! Do you know how
> fast you were going?"
>

<Delbert Wilkins Mode>
You tell me, you were the one trying to keep up..
</DWM>

Paul Boyd

Chris Malcolm said the following on 03/07/2007 11:24:

> "Never more than 70," I said smugly.
>
> "In a 50mph limit!" he pointed out, opening his notebook with a big
> grin.

Whoops!

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Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/