Shady
Active Member
- Location
- Isle of Man
Just wanted to get ppls opinion on filtering through traffic.
Basically the commute to work involves the approach to a roundabout where the narrow road widens near the end into 2 lanes (left for turning left, and right for straight ahead and right).
My question is that given the traffic is bunched on the narrow road with some traffic over to the left near the kerb, and other traffic over to the right on the white line how do you filter without going onto the other side of the road ??
And as the road is narrow there isn't any room when trucks etc are coming the other way, I see plenty of cyclists just mount the kerb which is pretty wide and then cycle along the kerb to the roundabout before going back on the road.
As I would like to cycle for work for the fitness, i would also like to be able to 'jump' past traffic without having to sit in traffic.
So the $60,000 question is would you sit and wait in traffic, risk going head on into traffic by filtering, or do the 'safer' option and mount the kerb and bypass the traffic before getting back on the road past the roundabout??
Suggestions would be welcome !!

Basically the commute to work involves the approach to a roundabout where the narrow road widens near the end into 2 lanes (left for turning left, and right for straight ahead and right).
My question is that given the traffic is bunched on the narrow road with some traffic over to the left near the kerb, and other traffic over to the right on the white line how do you filter without going onto the other side of the road ??
And as the road is narrow there isn't any room when trucks etc are coming the other way, I see plenty of cyclists just mount the kerb which is pretty wide and then cycle along the kerb to the roundabout before going back on the road.
As I would like to cycle for work for the fitness, i would also like to be able to 'jump' past traffic without having to sit in traffic.
So the $60,000 question is would you sit and wait in traffic, risk going head on into traffic by filtering, or do the 'safer' option and mount the kerb and bypass the traffic before getting back on the road past the roundabout??
Suggestions would be welcome !!
