BikeStormer

The test required to get a full motorcycle license is going to get a massive overhall at the end of the summer and become a lot more complicated. One of the minor changes will be that finally the examiners will get a bike specific form to fill in when assessing the candidates riding.

This is long overdue, but one of the changes is rather troubling, the inclusion of the section on filtering.

Currently the highway code doesn't detail what filtering is, or how it should be done. The closest thing to it is a rather vague comment about overtaking.

Rule 143 states "Do not overtake where you might come into conflict with other road users. For example approaching or at a road junction on either side of the road"

So no ruling on it, people have to make a judgement call on what they should do which is fine in a real world situation but what does this mean when people are taking their test? If there is a section on the assessment on filtering someone could fail for not filtering when they should or for filtering when they should not, which seems a bit off considering the highway code doesn't tell them when they should.

Of course, if someone did something dangerous that would already be covered, so why is this new section here?