1st Ride

[dapperdan]

sounds good, im in the market for a GTR, doing my research first,,as for filtering , i do it on a rocket 3 , never bothered me till i got too cocky , just a nice trail of car mirrors and doorhandles behind me ;-) , im not joking,  it went horribly wrong lol , the Rocket scraped down the side of a vw lupo and pushed his door panel right in, i deflected off the lupo into an audi estate , passenger door remoddeled , i finally came to rest on a fiat . Was a bad day , my pride had been violated by my ego , i dont filter anymore. Filtering in Germany is illegal , my insurance covered it but what a pain in the ass, the Rocket crash bars front and rear didnt get marked at all , not a scratch anywhere on the bike to be seen.Congrats on the bike, ride safe

[Debs]

Filtering in Germany is illegal

I didn't know it was illegal until I got to a biker hotel in Austria. I was telling them about my trip down and the accidents and how I filtered.. Thats when they said.. OOPS 

[dapperdan]

yeah gotta watch out  for differences in the continental highway code,,firstly there isnt one , in the UK the emphasis is on making progress, only when you make progress does traffic move, this logic has no effect on the deaf ears of German coppers, they are very efficient though , i was fined a told off within 2 minutes and then they went on their way with their BMWs,, Filtering with blue lights going,,,Hypocracy leaves a real shitty taste in your mouth.

[Boomer]

Coming back from Austria in 2003 (GTR Club Europe Rally) we hit traffic on the Munich bypass (it's NOT a ring road).
I started filtering and after about 5 miles I had a train of Germans working hard to follow me. Practice makes perfect. 
I guess they assumed that the Politzei would nick me first. 
I eventually outran them all and 6 miles later had the whole motorway to myself,... after clearing the wreckage from the 5 vehicle fender-bender.

Autobahns are nice but can be scary. I once had a Porsche close on me so fast I thought I was parked.
I was doing 130Mph at the time. Guess he was doing nearly 200 before he hit the brakes.