Flash lights to get others to move over?

The rules are simple.

1) Always stay as far left as safely possible (i.e. dont hop into the left lane for about two seconds if you're just going to overtake again).

2) Pull into the next lane on your right to overtake. If you're going quicker than the car in the adjacent left lane and some gimp comes speeding up behind you flashing their lights. Ignore them and follow rule 1 as soon as safely possible.

In my mind, there is no arguement to be had here.
 
im not too shy about flashing someone and im not shy about undertaking either.

cant stand idiots who cant drive properly though
 
My argument:

Driver in front should have noticed someone coming from behind (ooerr!) and gotten out of the way. Thus said driver is displaying lack of awareness and driver behind is 'making himself seen' in the same way that sounding a horn at low speed would aid being seen. Flashing is therefore warranted as it is a safer thing to do that undertake or tailgate.
 
I find cutting back into the outside lane close enough to make them jump gets the point across :D

That said, I think twice about stuff like this these days.

A while back I was travelling up our local dual carriage way, when there was a woman on the dual carriage way - the only car on there and sat in the outside lane. She thought she was being smart by sitting in the outside lane, as I could see her looking in the rear-view and grinning to herself and her passenger.

So I undertook at fullbore, making sure to cut across her front quarter as close as safely possible to make my point.

After we cross the roundabout, she tries moving into the inside lane (we've hit traffic) and tries stopping me from merging in turn (it was my turn in front of her!). I was persistent, and won this little battle, until the car in front stopped to turn right, she refused to let me move into the left lane and stuck her fingers up as she went past. I made a point of pulling back out into the remaining few meters of outside lane and back in front of her.

It is all fun and games, but I was thinking afterwards what if she was some kind of mentally unstable psycho - she could have rammed me or anything.
 
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paradigm said:
Simple solution would be porper driving education so that the plebs don't sit in the outside lane for the hell of it.
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Unless my tuition was against the norm... "stay left" was very, very clearly told, repeadedly.
 
I've only ever been flashed once, some chap cheesing it up a dual carriageway at light speed in his new Merc. I almost stopped to let him see what I had in the boot as he was obviously taking a keen interest, I like to think he was frothing at the mouth by the time he finally got to overtake.
 
tasslehoff said:
What part of my other posts are you blind to? READ before making comments.
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Thats the thing in here, There reading what they want to read and replying with the intention to argue.
If your in the outside lane going faster than the traffic on the inside your doing nothing wrong, no matter how fast the idiot is going behind you.
 
Malc said:
The rules are simple.

1) Always stay as far left as safely possible (i.e. dont hop into the left lane for about two seconds if you're just going to overtake again).

2) Pull into the next lane on your right to overtake. If you're going quicker than the car in the adjacent left lane and some gimp comes speeding up behind you flashing their lights. Ignore them and follow rule 1 as soon as safely possible.

In my mind, there is no arguement to be had here.
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+1

(but it seems to go right above some heads here)
 
People that sit in the outermost lane, flashing people to move out the way when they're clearly overtaking too really grates me. As do people sat in that lane, when not overtaking and with an empty lane to their left. :o

I have a couple of favourite tricks:

- Undertake at 4-5k (it's a diesel) and the non-silenced exhaust destroys their eardrums (for people in the outside lane when not needed)
- Change to a gear where the engine is sat at about 4.5-5k, and wait... soon the soot in the exhaust heats to a point where my car literally showers glowing sparks and soot over the car behind. THAT always gets people off my bumper! I have a straight-through silencer that accumulates soot, so I suppose it's a bit like DPF regeneration :p (for an instant cure for tailgaters)
- Slow down, let the towbar do the rest (again, tailgaters)

I have vivid memories when a Mini was tailgating me, so I slowed down slightly... he just touched my towbar, his front bumper hooked over it and when I heard the noise of bumper-on-towbar of course I would speed up again, his bumper was no longer part of his car. That learnt him!
 
Iceman said:
Thats the thing in here, There reading what they want to read and replying with the intention to argue.
If your in the outside lane going faster than the traffic on the inside your doing nothing wrong, no matter how fast the idiot is going behind you.
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I'm beginning to wonder how many of these tailgating idiots on the road post on here.
 
Iceman said:
Thats the thing in here, There reading what they want to read and replying with the intention to argue.
If your in the outside lane going faster than the traffic on the inside your doing nothing wrong, no matter how fast the idiot is going behind you.
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That is b*******s. Unless the inside line is absolutely jam packed.
 
MikeHiow said:
That is ********. Unless the inside line is absolutely jam packed.
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No its not, do you pull in and out of every car on the inside lane??

Oh no sorry we all have to move out of your way because you have the fastest car in the world, sorry my mistake.
 
Iceman said:
No its not, do you pull in and out of every car on the inside lane??

Oh no sorry we all have to move out of your way because you have the fastest car in the world, sorry my mistake.
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Half and half, if there are reasonably large gaps in the inside lane, I'd pull over without dropping speed to let them past, and once they've gone and you need to, get back in the outside lane.
 
rover416i said:
Half and half, if there are reasonably large gaps in the inside lane, I'd pull over without dropping speed to let them past, and once they've gone and you need to, get back in the outside lane.
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This i agree but im not going to pull into a small gap that i have to slow down for.
MikeHiow seems to think i should move out of his way all the time.
 
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