• TFL did research which proved that motorbikes in bus lanes do not endanger cyclists. So they changed the rules and the signs and road markings. But councils were under no obligation to do the same. Some did, some didn't. Some didn't want to spend the money on new signage or give an advantage to private motor vehicles, even the two wheeled ones. This was daft, as many major routes have stretches of council-managed roads mixed with TFL ones. In some places the management of the road changes every few hundred yards. If you bimble around carefree with an obscured plate, perhaps you're safer because you no longer need to check every bus lane sign to see if there's a little motorbike painted on it? You can concentrate on drivers and pedestrians so they never do anything you haven't anticipated. That's my method. Concentrate obsessively. Never be caught out by the unexpected.

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