Jez
Junior Member
As I understand it, lane splitting (filtering) is legal in the UK, but riding up the hard shoulder is not.
I've never needed to do it myself, but I live in quite a rural area without much traffic. There have been a couple of cases of accidents involving filtering motorcycles, and a lot depends on the court's judgement of the speed the bike was filtering at. More than about 10mph above the other traffic speed could be 'riding without due care and attention' or similar.
I've never needed to do it myself, but I live in quite a rural area without much traffic. There have been a couple of cases of accidents involving filtering motorcycles, and a lot depends on the court's judgement of the speed the bike was filtering at. More than about 10mph above the other traffic speed could be 'riding without due care and attention' or similar.