So, not a thread about training per say, but just after some opinions really. Would probably be covered in training I guess.
When I picked the bike up last week, it was a lovely gentle ride back for the most part on A-roads for the first part of the Journey - A41 down to the A5.
Came across a couple of sets of roadworks, with traffic lights and VERY long queues of vehicles as the lights phasing was quite short. So, where the road had a broken centre line, waited for the gaps in oncoming traffic and safely at a sensible speed made my way down the line of the traffic while it was stationary - aware and looking out for U-turning cars etc.
However a couple of sections the centre road markings were the solid white lines. What is is the consensus here ? No different from a safety point of view, looking for U-turning cars and very easily see ahead that the traffic is clear in the opposite direction - the solid lines were more to separate traffic from a dual piece of road, rather than blind corners or dips etc. It was such a long delay I did occasionally cross the line but made progress even more steadily. A couple of other bikes passed me, while I sat waiting.
I understand that technically it is completely illegal (maybe), but what would be the difference in crossing the white line if a car had broken down ? For context, it was a very slow line of traffic with lots of standstills and I only passed the line of vehicles while they were stood still.
