road.cc live blog: To filter or not to filter? (+ more)

Agree with the others. It gains you nothing here and makes you a target of the car drivers ire. Would this pass transpired if they hadn't squeezed between two cars and sat plumb in front? Debatable.

MGIF, didn't save a single second and put himself at more risk of conflict by loads.

Filtering is fine but not in this instance, it serves no purpose whatsoever except to increase danger, we all need to have a long hard look at what we are doing and think is that how we want others to behave. What if I cycle up from behind and position myself in front of the guy here, you know so I can get ahead for safety reasons? Yeah, total BS.

I think it's often a matter of what your intentions after the filter as we've seen in recent close pass videos. I think that filter was fine but I rarely filter if you're only talking the odd car and you shouldn't filter down the left to go straight on of there's a left turn option (in my opinion as opposed to law)...

I woudn't have filtered on that junction, tbh. The cyclist hadn't done anything wrong, filtering is perfectly OK,  but there are so many dickish drivers on the road if you put your bike in that position in front of them will be seething inside. I don't really see any advantage in squeezing between those cars in that situation.