Today I came across a motorcyclist who was going slower than I was, I was in the left lane and he was in the right lane, albeit, barely. He was sitting just to the right of the centre line (i imagine so that he would be avoiding the cats eyes).
How do you overtake someone like this, left hand side where there’s more room or right hand side? I know overtaking on the left is classed as undertaking but isn’t it permitted if the person on the right will not move to the left to let faster vehicles through?
Iv seen a HGV on the M6 overtaking in the fast lane before,
A few blasts of the air horns 
Sam Millar:
Today I came across a motorcyclist who was going slower than I was, I was in the left lane and he was in the right lane, albeit, barely. I was sitting just to the right of the centre line (i imagine so that he would be avoiding the cats eyes).
How do you overtake someone like this, left hand side where there’s more room or right hand side? I know overtaking on the left is classed as undertaking but isn’t it permitted if the person on the right will not move to the left to let faster vehicles through?
Assuming that there’s no reason for him being in the right hand lane such as a right turn ahead I’d give him a couple of flashes of the headlights and a quick toot of the horn if he didn’t respond to the headlights, if he still insisted on staying in the right hand lane I’d carefully go past on the inside.
I asume your talking about lane splitting or filtering on a motorcycle
Lane splitting on a motorcycle is a grey area, and is generally seen as Ok filtering thru traffic below 30 mph. Above that it can gen risky, as you need to keep your whits about you if you do it. personnelly I wont filter thru traffic if the flow is above 40 mph. But it can be advantagious if you can see if 3 lanes of the motorway are crawling or stood still for several miles. But even then Ill put my high beam on and do as our continental cousins do and put an indicator on to show I`m intending to over take.
I`ve actually seen 1 crazy motorcylist pass at speed on the narrow (dirty) band of tarmac that seperates the white line from the armco on the M62 near St.helens, and traffic was moving at normal speed.
Okay to avoid any confusion we were doing about 60 and there was no traffic around, well there was but not to make him filter down the middle if you get me.
You are allowed to overtake on the inside lane if “you are travelling in a multi lane highway and the traffic in the right hand lane(s) is travelling slower than you and you are not exceeding the speed limit for the road”.
He was travelling in an overtaking lane without actually overtaking.
Madguy 
If I didn’t undertake people I wouldn’t get anywhere.
London traffic and all that, every man for himself! 
If someone is driving along like that, I always make sure they can see me before I attempt to pass them, a little toot on the horn is enough, just so they know I’m there and that minimises the risk of them doing anything silly
newmercman:
If someone is driving along like that, I always make sure they can see me before I attempt to pass them, a little toot on the horn is enough, just so they know I’m there and that minimises the risk of them doing anything silly
I prefer to get past them before they have a chance to do anything silly! 
Happydaze:
newmercman:
If someone is driving along like that, I always make sure they can see me before I attempt to pass them, a little toot on the horn is enough, just so they know I’m there and that minimises the risk of them doing anything silly
I prefer to get past them before they have a chance to do anything silly!
I also like the lorries with an old fashioned exhaust brake, foot on both throttle and exhaust brake and a dirty great cloud of black smoke for them to drive through as you sail up the inside Works well with an exhaust stack and open windows on double decker buses too, so I’m told
newmercman:
Happydaze:
newmercman:
If someone is driving along like that, I always make sure they can see me before I attempt to pass them, a little toot on the horn is enough, just so they know I’m there and that minimises the risk of them doing anything silly
I prefer to get past them before they have a chance to do anything silly!
I also like the lorries with an old fashioned exhaust brake, foot on both throttle and exhaust brake and a dirty great cloud of black smoke for them to drive through as you sail up the inside Works well with an exhaust stack and open windows on double decker buses too, so I’m told
Ooh, good call! It’s going to be warm tomorrow too, lots of open windies…
It’s how it should be, one driver passing stuff on to another
madguy:
You are allowed to overtake on the inside lane if “you are travelling in a multi lane highway and the traffic in the right hand lane(s) is travelling slower than you and you are not exceeding the speed limit for the road”.
Where’s that quote from?
It’s seriously different to the Highway Code, which says
Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake.
As far as I know, you can pass on the left when it is safe to do so.
I could of course, be wrong. Either way, I’ll keep doing it. (See what I did there) 
With all the lane 2,3,4 hogs just cruising along in their own world these days I wish Madguys quote was the rule, even when people are passing at speed on either side of these people they don’t get the hint ffs, about bloody time they started enforcing better lane discipline on the motorways.
I remember having to it on the M40 in a sprinter van, it was an empty road, there was only me and this clown in a car, he was just sitting in the outside lane(closest to barrier) doing under 70mph, so i came up behind, gave my lights a flash along with my LH indicator , ■■■■■■ looked in the mirror and did nothing, so i undertook slowly, he had his mrs with him by the look of it she was on the phone, or pretending to be, what an empty head,
I remember seeing a car driver cut up a paddy truck going n bound on the M6 one night, after around 30mins 4 more sailed past me at over 70mph,lol they managed to box the car in for a quite some time, i bet the car driver had an accident on his/her seat, that night , lol
Happydaze:
newmercman:
Happydaze:
newmercman:
If someone is driving along like that, I always make sure they can see me before I attempt to pass them, a little toot on the horn is enough, just so they know I’m there and that minimises the risk of them doing anything silly
I prefer to get past them before they have a chance to do anything silly!
I also like the lorries with an old fashioned exhaust brake, foot on both throttle and exhaust brake and a dirty great cloud of black smoke for them to drive through as you sail up the inside Works well with an exhaust stack and open windows on double decker buses too, so I’m told
Ooh, good call! It’s going to be warm tomorrow too, lots of open windies…
Used to have plenty of fun with the flumes of think black smoke,lol worked a treat in Froggyland , as the exhaust was on the o/s of the 17tonne MAN’s sit at the lights, give a rev whilst on the exhaust brake , and release after 5-10secs but not untill the light have changed and the road ahead is clear,lol
pull alongside, then poke him with a stick.
every good driver carries a stick.
limeyphil:
pull alongside, then poke him with a stick.
every good driver carries a stick.
Given that it’s a motorbike why stop at poking? Shove it through his front spokes.