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Yes, a Hoot. My friend Clive has developed a very effective technique( tekneek, Dwight?).
He approaches a queue at speed wobbling mightily as he goes.
Somehow drivers manage to move apart for him...some even pull over and switch off their engines.I merely follow in his wake giving a courteous ( kurtiuz, Dwight?) wave of thanks.



So, your friend "Clive" ya say?! Yep, sounds about right!

Well, IF "Clive" IS "filtering" as you guys call it over there, AND if he's doin' it IN that manner(at higher speeds then what would be prudent), then "Clive" sounds a lot like some of the young sportbike squids who'd come up behind me while I was lane-splitting(as WE call it) in California, and who'd I hear blip their throttle in an apparent attempt to say, "Hey dude, move over so I can get through here!", and who after I'd find a little space to move between two cars to do just that, would then pass me goin' WAY too damn fast between the cars.

And who as I'd see 'em go off in the distance, I'd say to myself somethin' like, "Enjoy your short time on earth, you dumb-ass kid".

(..SEE, and as I'm sure YOU know while you're lane-splitting, ahem, "filtering" over there Alan ol' boy, there IS a right way AND a wrong way to do this...but as I've said MANY a freakin' time around here before, you can explain this sort'a thing until you're blue in the face and/or have your fingers bleeding from typing this explanation on your keyboard, figuratively speaking of course, and STILL the riders who have never been allowed to do this and/or the cagers in every other state but California, especially, will NEVER in a million freakin' YEARS "get it"!!!)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)