Throttled

The sizing of gloves varies significantly, I have medium, large and x large gloves that all fit me. I agree about the need for winter and summer gloves.

I presume that is a mapping route finder thing. Which thinks you can do single tracked roads at the national speed limit.

In a couple of weeks time I am going on a charity motorbike ride for Breast Way Round Scotland. Four days, camping and riding and various Scottish towns will be visited to raise funds. I am doing it in memory of Charlene, my wife's childhood friend who passed away from breast cancer, aged 50, last year. I will be wearing a bra. All the men taking part wear a bra, the whole time. If you could see your way to donate to my bra wearing adventure, please do so here; https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/BWRS2017 Thanks.

I have replaced my motorbike socks with cheapo football socks. Just as comfortable and if they get wet they dry very quickly.

The lady at the Morrisons Filling Station in Aberdeen who insisted I took off my OPEN FACED helmet, to be served. You are fanny of the day!

Kingussie (was the Happy Haggis, now Haddock Bay) Inverewe Gardens Falls of Shin Steamboat, Lossiemouth Kilmarnock Arms, Crudden Bay Rocksalt & Snails, Ballater Touchdown Cafe, Perth Aerodrome

Now camping at Poolewe near to the tag there. Two tags tomorrow and the final three north of Scotland the day after. I think north of Scotland tags should count double! It has taken four nights camping to do them all.

The Happy Haggis tag in kingussie is now called Haddock Bay. I have tagged it.

I ride fip up a lot, but got a Shark Evoline, so no issues with a big flap waving about above my head. The flip goes down as soon as my speed goes over 40 mph. http://www.fowlers.co.uk/shop/content/images/thumbs/0008202_shark-evoline-s3-wkr.jpeg

Only 4 hours, you lucky, lucky bast*rd!!

The problem is bikers who claim they are filtering, because they know it comes with a protection that other roads users have to watch out for filtering bikes (Rules 160 and 211 put the onus on drivers) for pretty much every passing manoeuvre except the overtake of one moving vehicle. Rule 88 states "Additionally, when filtering in slow-moving traffic, take care and keep your speed low" and that is what I take filtering to be, passing through the gaps where there are slow moving vehicles. That is further clarified in Rule 211 which states "It is often difficult to see motorcyclists and cyclists, especially when they are coming up from behind, coming out of junctions, at roundabouts, overtaking you or filtering through traffic." Overtaking is different from filtering which is passing "through". Filtering means you are going through the gaps as the traffic is moving slowly forward. I would respectfully suggest that everything else should be treated as overtaking with the additional care that requires.

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Can I get the link to the case law. As I said, that is all filtering is, it is just another word for overtaking but slower moving or stationary traffic and had you asked I would have given you the link to the case law. Can I get a link to the case law. Again, that refers to overtaking. Since the Highway Code refers to both filtering and overtaking, I take it to be they are different, but you and others are defining it as the same thing and when one refers to overtaking, you then call it filtering. I stand by my original claim that the act of passing a line of queuing vehicles at a junction is overtaking and not filtering because the Highway Code describes it as overtaking.

The Davis vs Schrogin case details I can found refers to the act as filtering here; https://www.clarkewillmott.com/case-studies/motorcycle-filtering-legitimised/ but overtaking in all of the following reports; https://www.solicitorsjournal.com/case-reports/eric-davis-v-maxim-schrogin http://www.motorcyclelawscotland.co.uk/why-choose-us/case-law/davis-v-schrogin-(2006/ http://lexisweb.co.uk/cases/2006/june/davis-v-schrogin http://www.thesolicitorsgroup.com/Downloads/Articles/26Jan2012/PersonalInjuryClaimsInvolvingMotorcyclists.pdf I cannot find the actual wording in the ruling, but from the majority of solicitor reports, it was overtaking.

We will have to agree to disagree. The Highway Code does not specifically define filtering or overtaking. There is no example of what constitutes filtering. There are examples of what is considered overtaking. One example of what is overtaking is from rule 167, passing traffic queuing at junctions, which is what the queue he passes is doing. At 1.32 the reason for the queue is a traffic light controlled junction. That rule also specifies coming into conflict with other road users. He is coming into conflict because he is causing the oncoming vehicles to move to their left to give him more space. Most obvious is the Mondeo and two vehicles behind at 14.54 are driving inside the bus stop markings. They have clearly moved to the side to give the biker more room.

This photo is from the Highway Code and she is overtaking. What is to stop her from claiming she was filtering past the slow moving cyclist and so it was OK for her to pull out into the face of oncoming traffic causing to slow down or move over to give that extra bit of room?

The reason why I cited rule 167 is because of its relevance to what was in the video. There was queuing traffic and to pass them meant coming into conflict with other vehicles and that traffic had to slow and alter its position. That is also covered in rule 162, having sufficient space and rule 163 giving way to oncoming vehicles. That says nothing about what actually constitutes filtering. That is your definition of filtering. I am going by the actual words of the Highway Code and the actual situation in the video. Both overtaking and filtering involves passing other vehicles. The video shows a biker passing a queue of traffic which brought him into conflict with oncoming vehicles. That is covered by the Highway Code's DO NOT in rule 167.

Actually you are completely wrong. This was not overtaking given the fact there was a queue. It is called filtering and it completely legal It is up to you to decide how much risk you want to take. Personally I would have slowed down a bit to have the bus passing by before I do the filtering at 01:15. There is no official definition, but since he was passing stationary vehicles on the offside and over the centre line causing others to have to move to let him pass, that is overtaking according to the Highway Code. I have highlighted the part in bold.

I am giving them up. The part to latch onto the helmet keeps breaking and we lose volume so after a couple of hours we cannot hear each other. When they do work they are very good, but they don't last even with occasional use.

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To be fair, she may not have realised what had happened. I reported someone for giving another guy a doing. It turned out he was giving the guy a kicking after he had tried to rob him of his mobile at knife point. I felt rotten when I found that out, but I had arrived after the initial incident and he was really beating the crap out of the robber such that I feared he would be seriously injured if not killed.

I am thinking of a Rider 40. How is it in the sun with the screen and any impressions on waterproofness?

Happy birthday

I have not experienced any issues at all. I do not really get how there can be an issue.