Government Rider Attitude Poll 2009

[s44678]

https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/sign_116.jpg

Would be interested to know the outcome.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Option 2, with the additional "using as much of the herringbone runoff area as I can" too.
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[Banned]

Pic don't work, but ive done both ! ... however i would like to think on a bike i would only do no 1, at least for a while ...
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Depends what sort of mood I'm in, but usually it would be option 2.
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[LankyPaddy]

I'd argue that option 2 was the correct answer. As the sign means "merge in turn in 600 yards", not necessarily "merge now"
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[Muscle Bike Rider]

Cant see the sign?
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[The Original Muzza]

300 yards is when you start considering merging, 100 is the earliest you bother. That's 500 less yards to be frustrated with.
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[willis1337]

Be continental and use ALL of the available road space (it's not illegal) - if you like to queue sell your bike and get the bus ffs.

[G]

What's stopping you continuing to filter past the thraffic in the cones, just as you would have been filtering before the sign?
Or, nipping through the cones if you're feeling particularly cheeky and there's no people working behind them?

[Faldo]

Can't see the pic either, but I presume it's directing us to move over as the outside lane is about to end, in which case I'd most likely maintain the same speed until the last safe opportunity to move over.

I can't be doing with drivers that don't use all of the road, that's what it's there for . Even worse is people that try and cut you off as if you are 'pushing in'. If you have to merge it isn't pushing in, it's merging.
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[craigs23]

Not enough information for the hypothetical situation - there may be a convenient gap in a traffic halfway between my position and the lane closure, or the lane might be wide enough to carry on filtering once it's narrowed to one lane...and it also depends on what mood I'm in and what bike I'm riding.

Pin my 125 for example? I'd probably already be doing that if I was caught a). on a bypass b). in the fast lane.

[calyx]

That sign is no different than a traffic lights sign. I just filter(which is not filtering tbh) and zip in safely as always.
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[stinkwheel]

Doesn't matter what you do.

The second the lanes merge, even if the road on the approach has been totally devoid of traffic for the last five miles, you will come up behind a double artic with a full load of car batteries/sand/concrete blocks which is tailgating a bus, which is being held up by some old bloke in a flat cap driving a powder blue nissan micra at 40mph. There will be solid lined chevrons for the next six miles.

The worst one is if you can SEE the wagon up ahead. There is a bit on the A66 (Penrith to Scotch Corner) like this, about 10 miles before Scotch Corner. You come over the crest of a hill to see the last mile of dual carriageway then five miles of double-white-lined, empty single carriageway wending its way across the countryside. There is ALWAYS a huge artic about 300yds off the point where the lanes merge. If you don't get there first, you're going to be stuck behind it until the next bit if dual carriageway.

I have seen some very silly numbers indeed on the VFR speedo as I squeeze between the wagon and central barrier on the last little wedge of chevrons before the double whites start.
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[divuk83]

Depends how many HGVs/Caravans/Austin Metros being driven by old men wearing flat caps are ahead of me.

The A66 is a very good example of a road where this happens a lot.

Dave