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> Squeezing by cars in start/stop traffic is one of the more debatable ones. Where I live, this is called "filtering", and it's encouraged by both cycling orga

> Squeezing by cars in start/stop traffic is one of the more debatable ones. Where I live, this is called "filtering", and it's encouraged by both cycling organisations and motoring organisations. If the ICE traffic has stopped, then the worst that can happen is that you misadjust some motorist's wing mirror, and they have to wind their window down to fix it. > Driving without lights at night, wearing dark clothes, is the one where I see absolutely no upside for their behavior. Agreed! If you dress up as a piece of tarmac and proceed down a tarmac road made for cars, without lights, you should expect cars to treat you like a piece of road, because that's what you look like.

cassianoleal 4y ago
> Where I live, this is called "filtering" I had no idea it had a name. > and it's encouraged by both cycling organisations and motoring organisations. This shouldn't really come as a surprise. It's much safer for the cyclist to get ahead of traffic. It's a very nervy situation to have traffic slowly start moving again and you being on your bike squeezes near this accelerating train of cars. Even worse is to be between 2 cars. If the one in front of you suddenly breaks and you can't break on time, you hit them. If you do break on time, you run the risk of getting rammed by the car behind you and squashed into the car in front of you.