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Jack_Cheese
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PostPosted: 13:36 - 28 Nov 2005    Post subject: Not another dreary filtering thread... Reply with quote

Nope, this one is about having fun whilst filtering Shocked I actually feel shocked i can say that as a former hater of filtering. Today i had to filter for about a mile in the cold and snow on a dual carriageway with a heavy bag on my back. And I loved it! I was constantly thinking "should i stop?" but all i did was bide my time till i could find the next impossibly small gap through which i could pin the throttle* I had fun, even with the shitty weather:up:

Jack

*Before safety nazis flame me all over the place, i'm on a 50cc scooter, and nailed it so i didnt get run over. The rest of the time i filtered sensibly so ha!
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 28 Nov 2005    Post subject: Re: Not another dreary filtering thread... Reply with quote

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Nope, this one is about having fun whilst filtering Shocked I actually feel shocked i can say that as a former hater of filtering. Today i had to filter for about a mile in the cold and snow on a dual carriageway with a heavy bag on my back.


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PostPosted: 13:50 - 28 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Filtering on a ped is about the most fun you can have (without being forced to cuddle afterwards.) it's just so easy!
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PostPosted: 14:36 - 28 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love filtering as well....

I go to uni in lancaster and the whole city is one giant one way 2 lane system.... theres nothing better than weaving straight up the middle while everyone else has to crawl along Smile
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PostPosted: 15:08 - 28 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't wait 'till i get a 125, i'm just going to buy the loudest exhaust i can. The guy behind me on his gpz500 Didn't look to be having too much fun...

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PostPosted: 15:16 - 28 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jack_Cheese wrote:
The guy behind me on his gpz500 Didn't look to be having too much fun...


Steady on, Jack Razz Wink Thumbs Up Thumbs Up

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PostPosted: 15:42 - 28 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it was, you've got a bloody long commute Shocked

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PostPosted: 13:16 - 29 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I filter on the FJR.

Scares the car drivers.
They keep moving over...
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PostPosted: 14:18 - 29 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Love filtering Thumbs Up ........ but drivers seem more scared of male riders than woman riders. I had a close call recently when some nutter decided he'd rather walk and suddenly opened the passenger side door of a stationary vehicle and half jumped out into the road directly in front of me. I slammed on anchors (nearly took the door off!) and then asked him if he had a death wish or what ? His eyes nearly popped out of his head he got such a fright! Shocked Shocked
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PostPosted: 14:13 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd find it difficult to go back to a car now after filtering on a bike.
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PostPosted: 14:23 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

IronMaiden wrote:
Love filtering Thumbs Up ........ but drivers seem more scared of male riders than woman riders. I had a close call recently when some nutter decided he'd rather walk and suddenly opened the passenger side door of a stationary vehicle and half jumped out into the road directly in front of me. I slammed on anchors (nearly took the door off!) and then asked him if he had a death wish or what ? His eyes nearly popped out of his head he got such a fright! Shocked Shocked


I had exactly the same thing when filtering, some kid whose dad was dropping him to school, obviously thought it would be quicker to walk than to sit in traffic and opened his door into the gap as I was filtering. If I'd have been on the DR350 I had at the time, I;d have hit him. Fortunately it was a rare winter commute on the Blade and I stoppied to a halt with the front wheel touching the door liner. Shocked Shocked Shocked

That kid learnt a few new words that day as I told his Dad not to let the kid open the door without using his wing mirrors first.

Love filtering too though, it's one of the biggest bonuses of owning a bike. Take it steady nowadays though, too many near misses with car drivers trying to save 2 seconds on their daily commute by changing lanes.

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PostPosted: 14:28 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally I hate the c*nts in their flash motors who see us coming up with middle and "accidentally" stray right over so that we simply cant get past, then chuckle as we sit there...
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PostPosted: 18:04 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw a pan european filtering the other day.

... Laughing

Had a grin on my face for the rest of the day, the amount of car drivers that saw it and must have thought "er, he's going pretty fast, I'm getting out the way Shocked" Very Happy
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PostPosted: 18:52 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keen wrote:
I love filtering as well....

I go to uni in lancaster and the whole city is one giant one way 2 lane system.... theres nothing better than weaving straight up the middle while everyone else has to crawl along Smile


My Mum's family come from Morecambe, I've been taken up there to see them for most of my life. Lancaster's one way system is a total nightmare! Often could take as long getting from the motorway to that bridge out of the city towards Morecambe as it did to cover the last 100 miles on the motorway!

From what I've seen, the rest of the city is pretty much the same!

Still, the uni seemed ok the few times I've visited it. My uncle took his Phd there, and my sister her Ba. She liked the area so much she's stayed up there - she doesn't have a bike though, so she can't enjoy it like you!

From memory, there are plenty of nice roads leading to superb scenery?
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PostPosted: 18:56 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Filtering on a pushbike in heavy traffic is a big buzz.

Something to do with the danger I would imagine, and the warped sense of achievement of overtaking cars on a pushbike.
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PostPosted: 18:59 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love it, flick my dark inner visor down and if anyone cuts infront of me, I just pull up next to their window and stare into the car for a few seconds Laughing It's the only entertainment I get on my 20 mile commute every day, as evil as it may seem Wink
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PostPosted: 19:46 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

jonnay wrote:
I love it, flick my dark inner visor down and if anyone cuts infront of me, I just pull up next to their window and stare into the car for a few seconds Laughing It's the only entertainment I get on my 20 mile commute every day, as evil as it may seem Wink


I have red and yellow contact lenses, i usually stare at drivers with my mirror visor open a bit, so all they can see is steam coming out from my breath, then when i pop the visor, all they see is my black balaclava and helmet liner, then two scary as F*ck eyes staring straight at em! Can't wait to get a caberg, though!

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PostPosted: 19:57 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd reccomend a caberg, I love mine, but might have to get rid of it soon because of the insurance claim (damaged in the accident, claiming for a new lid) - can't get my model in the UK, so they want to replace it with a KBC race rep of the same value.

The red and yellow contacts would be a little un-nerving Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love it if I have no particular time constraints...

No matter how good you are at filtering, traffic will always slow you down. This increases my journey time, which annoys me... as usually I'm trying to get somewhere for a particular time. (Otherwise I'd have left it an hour and avoided Rush Hour!).

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PostPosted: 22:04 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: I used Reply with quote

I used to love the BROS 650 for filtering it's grunty and very very thin and can turn on a penny. I thought I'd hate the Vmax for filtering but no fu(kin way its better Thumbs Up ... folk get out of the way ...and oddly I can still get through some impossible gaps (ay Proxi?....ride pillion and tell me you trust me!!) ...

But does anyone find it tuff as hell when they get in a car and are stuck in traffic... It's sooo tuff when I'm in the jeep... I keep seeing these gaps and just about push ahead...but can't have to remember theres an extra bit on the left!!! Thumbs Down Thumbs Down
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PostPosted: 22:04 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stop rubbing it in Confused


Cant wait to get back and abuse British laws again Shocked
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 30 Nov 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee wrote:
Stop rubbing it in Confused


Cant wait to get back and abuse British laws again Shocked


It's illegal to filter in yankeeland? Shocked

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Mr. Green

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