Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
I don't understand your answer. As I think about "filtering," the bike filters, and the cars lane split around you. Nonetheless, I guess you consider filtering as reckless.
Then there is a distinction to me between filtering between moving cars vs between stopped cars (at a traffic light or sign).
It was snarky. If the bike is on the line at a light the car can filter up next to it in the traffic lane.
In California it's not illegal. It doesn't matter who's filtering whom or whether the traffic is moving. I did it when I had a motorcycle. There's few laws to it but we do have some
customs for motorcyclists, which are to do it between the two fastest regular lanes, don't do it along a solid line, don't go too much faster than traffic. On a bicycle it's not really needed, because you pass on the right over the fog line to accomplish the same thing and no one says boo, even though on a motorcycle this would earn you a ticket.