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The other drivers seemed a bit put out by us doing it a few weeks ago on motorways in Germany. But I wasn't going to sit in a stationary 5 mile jam on a 30 year old air cooled two stroke MZ 250. Good fun with 10 of us doing it !
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I'm back from my trip now and had no problems. I even got right to the front of massive queues caused by accidents to have the police or ambulance drivers allow me to pick my away around the wrecked cars and broken glass. That happened in both Italy and France, several times. I filtered everywhere else, although did find some drivers in Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe would deliberately block you - and in Poland wheel 'ruts' caused by heavy trucks made filtering a bit wobbly at times.
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Adler,i think i know why the Germans you mentioned seemed to get a bit "shirty".A German biker friend told me it is very much verboten to filter there(as it is in USA),though when i was there in August i had a little smile on my face when i did it!Other German bikers seem to either totally ignore it,or stick to the rules like jam.
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I know it's illegal in Germany but you have other considerations when riding an air cooled stroker, ie keeping the bugger cool.
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No problems in Norway, and I think in neither of the Nordic countries. I have been filtering in all of them with no problems. In Norway, you MUST filter on the left hand side of the cars, i.e. not between the cars and the curb. That will result in a fine of biblical proportions...
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In much of the US filtering or lane-splitting is illegal and drivers will go after you agressively for it--here in Northern Calif., though, it is fairly well accepted. I'm just starting to test low-speed lanesplitting and I'm grateful for the time it saves me.
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can't understand why people got upset with me doing it in my landcruiser!
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