Overtaking rant

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Ok...

So there's a nice dual carrage just up from where I live, was coming back from food shopping.... start the dual carrageway and go to overtake a shogun, pull out a good few car lengths before as the road was empty (I was probably doing 70ish) and the shogun pulls into the middle of the dual carrageway making me have to swerve and nearly hit the center?!

I gave him a toot and he flashed his lights loads at me?

What is wrong with people? Perfectly safe overtake which nearly ended in a crash at 70mph because some loser either doesn't know the size of his stupid car, doesn't want me to overtake or hasn't seen me.

I wish I could legally kill people sometimes :o:p
 
Talking from another point of view. I don't mind being overtaken at all. However, when you're overtaken in an aggressive manner, say on a motorway and then you leave at the same exit and end up sitting behind the guy at a set of traffic lights further down the road, you thiink...was there any ****ing point?
 
Ken said:
Talking from another point of view. I don't mind being overtaken at all. However, when you're overtaken in an aggressive manner, say on a motorway and then you leave at the same exit and end up sitting behind the guy at a set of traffic lights further down the road, you thiink...was there any ****ing point?
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What is an "aggressive manner" I overtake people at full throttle is this aggressive?
 
Ken said:
Talking from another point of view. I don't mind being overtaken at all. However, when you're overtaken in an aggressive manner, say on a motorway and then you leave at the same exit and end up sitting behind the guy at a set of traffic lights further down the road, you thiink...was there any ****ing point?
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Yes. The person who overtook you is now in front of you and doesn't have to worry about you potentially holding him up.

EVERY SINGLE TIME somebody pulls out ahead of me they dawdle and dither and generally fail to make any sort of progress. Hence I overtake most cars I come across on any given journey.
 
I like to drive at my own pace, if that means overtaking a guy doing 60mph with myself doing 70mph and he catches up with me at a junction/queue whatever I couldn't care less :)
 
Lopéz said:
Yes. The person who overtook you is now in front of you and doesn't have to worry about you potentially holding him up.

EVERY SINGLE TIME somebody pulls out ahead of me they dawdle and dither and generally fail to make any sort of progress. Hence I overtake most cars I come across on any given journey.
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This was proven at the RR :p ^^^
 
L0rdMike said:
What is an "aggressive manner" I overtake people at full throttle is this aggressive?
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I'm guessing he means pulling out late and cutting in too fast?

If he means driving too fast on a motorway is aggressive he needs to reach down and find some :p
 
TBH, i don't mind people overtaking me as it means one less tailgater. My biggest hate is people who pull out of side roads on to NSL roads doing 30 when you're doing 60, would it kill them to wait an extra 5 seconds so you can pass instead of causing you to slam on?
 
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dont get me started :)

whats worse is these cretins that decide to overtake but crawl past, good example being when people overtake artics,

I mean ffs dont be nervous the slower you overtake the bigger the risk get the fricking foot down ffs

has this the other night coming back from Fife, took nearly 2 minutes for 3 cars to pass a lorry. i need a new steering wheel in the lcr as mine is covered in bite marks now :)

the age old art of overtaking has been lost

Accelerate pull out go past pull back in it really is that easy

not pull out, sit for a minute and think about it, pull along side then brake and slow down before finally staying in the outside lane and forgetting whhere you should be
 
Phate said:
This was proven at the RR :p ^^^
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I've toned it down on the motorways these days, but when I used to do South Wales -> Leicester and South Wales -> Manchester a couple of times a month for about 4 years, I only got passed by literally a handful of cars over all those journeys.

On the whole, the general public drive very slowly. Probably because they've had it relentlessly drummed into them that handling a car is a skill they will never be able to master, and one they should not want to master either, and that if they break the speed limit they will have their licence burned in front of them.
 
Lopéz said:
I've toned it down on the motorways these days, but when I used to do South Wales -> Leicester and South Wales -> Manchester a couple of times a month for about 4 years, I only got passed by literally a handful of cars over all those journeys.

On the whole, the general public drive very slowly. Probably because they've had it relentlessly drummed into them that handling a car is a skill they will never be able to master, and one they should not want to master either, and that if they break the speed limit they will have their licence burned in front of them.
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hahaha! :D

OT Which part of Leiscester do you live in? I have some friends that live in Hinckley :)
 
Had a **** of a rep in a Focus estate decide the inside lane of a two lane, single exit roundabout was purely for him to make up a whole cars (i.e. me) length in traffic today. Second time its happened in a few weeks, the last time being some halfwitted Merc driver...next time it happens i'm bloody well aiming for them on the exit...tossers...
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Lopéz said:
Yes. The person who overtook you is now in front of you and doesn't have to worry about you potentially holding him up.

EVERY SINGLE TIME somebody pulls out ahead of me they dawdle and dither and generally fail to make any sort of progress. Hence I overtake most cars I come across on any given journey.
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Precisely. I often overtake people and end up only one car in front of them in a queue, or I slow down for a 30 zone just down the road, but atleast when the road opens up again im not going to still be behind them.

I often overtake atleast 1 car on my daily commute, more if it's not rush hour and the oldies are out.
 
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Ken said:
Talking from another point of view. I don't mind being overtaken at all. However, when you're overtaken in an aggressive manner, say on a motorway and then you leave at the same exit and end up sitting behind the guy at a set of traffic lights further down the road, you thiink...was there any ****ing point?
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How does someone overtake "aggressively" on a motorway?
 
Foxtrot26 said:
not pull out, sit for a minute and think about it,
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I sometimes do that just to make sure the coast is completely clear but then if it is I don't hang about. It's called 'spying for an overtake' although in a low and small cars you have to go out much further than normal cars :) Usually I do a little spy, if it's looking good then I drop a couple or three cogs, then I go out for a big spy then if it's still good I'm gone :)
 
That is actually the "proper" overtaking technique. You're meant to pull out and not accelerate until you are 100% sure the overtake is safe. Then push on...

As opposed to gunning it and realising you don't have as much time/space as you think but are already committed.
 
Happened to me twice on way home tonight overtaking and a numpty in a shogun pulls over the center line then flashed his lights and called ME a ******.

And he caught me up at the next set of lights

But he was awfully nice and apologetic when I got out and tapped on his window

Little men in big cars often get frightened when big men get out of little cars

NO SWEARING
 
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