Filtering on your motorcycle is one of the many benefits of owning a motorbike as it allows you to jump the queue on busy roads. But is motorcycle filtering legal, and who’s at fault if you have a motorcycle accident while filtering past traffic?
As a former motorcycle courier, I filter. A lot. I regularly ride from Dalton Towers in the Chilterns to the High Court in Central London so, when considering filtering, I do so from both a legal and pragmatic position, and there is an unusually helpful overlap between the law on motorcycle filtering and good common sense.