Cars in the outside lane.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I'm no newbie but somehow I've missed this tip until recently. It's not uncommon to encounter a single car on a deserted stretch of dual carriageway (A10) which will not budge from the right hand lane. I figure they're either self-annointed alpha-males/females who think they belong in the overtaking lane, or they have such poor spatial awareness that having the nearest kerb just two feet away from their right side window is less scarey than having it eight feet to the left and out of view.

I've tried Delboy's tip and it really works. Until now I'd have been either in their 6 o'clock position and expecting that my headlight centrally positioned in their rear view mirror would convey the message, "I'm on a sportsbike, what do you think I want to do?" or in the "8 o'clock" position (centre line just to my left) for a good view ahead, still with a view to getting past. Occasionally my patience will run out and I'll undertake. "4 o'clock" is a place I don't really want to be, but used momentarily it does seem to influence car drivers to move to the left as if by magic.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=REU39NgkBws

tl:dw - Try 6.30 to 9.30 mins.

[Pete.]

Saturday mornings on the A2 you usually get a lot of hung-over third-laners. I just go around. If they want to use the third lane I'll use another.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Nobby the Bastard]

I just give it the berries in the inside lane. Aint got the time for their shit.
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[MCN]

Standard approach.

Pass on inside and kick the door mirror off as you go past.

First ensure there's no PoPo around and do them ahp the inside.
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[Ste]

[BTTD]

[Rogerborg]

[Beehive Bedlam]

As already said I just drop a gear and undertake the smelly cunts.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

M1 is usually nose to tail in lane 3 full of Audis and BMWs who rarely let you past. I just undertake them all in the rarely used inner lanes when on the bike.
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[Rogerborg]

Is't possible? Does BCF actually... agree on something?

[Looks out window for other Signs of the Apocalypse]
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[Pete.]

Not really there's just a lot of people out there who don't need to watch some fool blabbering on a vlog to know how to get along the road.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Pete.]

Actually I was going to say the same. If I tried his tactic on my commute I would be sat behind every car until it got to a slip road. At least one of his examples was looking like they were going to move anyway, and in fact started moving before he'd even closed up to jedi-range.

The other problem with his tactic is if you get fed up with waiting for them to move and switch to a left-side pass, you're movement in their mirror might be what causes them to notice you and suddenly try to 'get out of your way'.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[P.addy]

They made the bikes narrow and powerful for a reason. Any gap is a way of making progress

[sepher]

[techathy]

In lower density traffic DCs I’d do a variation of Del's suggestion.

Approaching a car hogging lane 2 make sure I’ve got a 10mph or bigger speed difference. At about 80-100m move to the extreme right of the lane and a single quick main-beam flash, then return to the centre of the lane. This will either cause them to change lanes or they’ll ignore you. If they’ve not started change lanes by 50m out I’ll move to the left hand side of the lane and evaluate an immediate undertake, which almost certainly is on. If it’s not on then I’ll drop into to my close following awaiting overtake opportunity position, rather than my standard distances (standard & close are relative. My close following distance is bigger than the typical following distance).

If it's high density traffic, which is typical, then make progress in what seems the most prudent manner for the exact situation.

[Pete.]

[kramdra]

I just stay left. Lane is always empty.

Vid above he gets far too close for my liking. Any "pressuring" on a car is asking to be brake checked. It is much safer to go between two cars.

[Val]

Just overtake in the left lane whilst doing a wheelie and giving the two fingers sign.

Safer and you are more visible that way
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