What are they thinking?

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Griffo said:
I sometimes feel the need to overtake if the car in front is hideous/excreting something dodgy from the exhaust. Otherwise I overtake because I want to travel at a higher speed, and i'll overtake as quickly as possible to avoid a)tedium and b)holding up any mental fast people that may catch up whilst i'm going.
If you're in the middle lane and there's something in the nearside lane about 3 miles down the road though, then it's a different matter.
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I agree. Altohugh mostly for me it when its raining (as it was the last few days) and the car infront is firing loads of vapour at me and I cant see well...I generally put my foot down to get past.
 
Griffo said:
I'm picturing you rolling up next to some 'stereotypes' on your bike and shooting them in the idiot sector. :)
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Nice thought. :p

Nah, its usually my colleagues and I that end up extricating drivers from their vehicles after they have either went way beyond their vehicles safety and performance envelope ( as Fox mentioned ) or simply that the main component between the steering wheel and the seat in many cars that is known for failure and causes many RTC's goes on the blink - the driver. :cool:
 
I was going to work on Sunday and had to avoid crashing into a van then a car later on and they both swore at me, crazy how some people can be in the wrong but feel they are doing nothing wrong and vent fury at people. I was glad to get to work in one peace.
 
I think we should turn this thread into - what annoys you on the road.
 
msm722 said:
I think we should turn this thread into - what annoys you on the road.
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Agreed. Something else thats annoyed me...is the 40 - 50mph restrictions on the M25 and A1! I know its for the saftey of the workers doing there thing but when you have three lanes open, no cones or workers...Just makes me think, wtf is going on? Wasting my time!
 
msm722 said:
God no. I think Johnny69 explained it best. I'm just trying to understand why drivers zoom past then sit in front of you. Also, if I overtake a car they see it as a challenge and start racing me - as if they are trying to prove something.
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maybe they just want a race....
 
Not long after passing my test I made the mistake of overtaking a car started to pull back in only to realise he wanted a race and was along the bloody side of me! Should always look before pulling back in :rolleyes:
 
* People who pull out on you on the motorway
* People that hog the overtaking lane going slow
* People that take along time to move over


Just to note I have no problem in people overtaking me, I simply move over quickly.
 
What really bugs me is that everyone veiws the lanes as slow, medium and fast lane.. When in reality they are normal lane, overtaking lane 1 and overtaking lane 2.

If people would apply this knoweldge to the road we wouldnt have dumbnuts clogging up the road system... If you can move over into the left lane again.. DO IT!!! DO IT NOW!!!
 
Ed said:
I used to believe that but now I genuinely think people who do this just don't see it. No malice or intention, just completely oblivious, listening to Rihanna on the radio and thinking about the day ahead. The reason for this was my girlfriend once done it and I told her to pull over to the left and she said, "oh yeah!". Dippy cow.
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I actually agree with you, my post was really just a little dig at the OP's stereotyping :D
 
msm722 said:
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about people driving slow who diserve to be overtaken. I'm refering to those situations where it doesn't make much sense. For example, your doing NSL in the inside lane of a dual carriage way, the car behind you is following at the same speed, then all of a sudden they change lane and blast past you, then move back over and carry on at NSL. Another example would be when the car comes along side you and maintains speed, then blasts off as if racing you. Just irks me abit.
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Bloody ell, I couldn't care less if someone did that, why does it bother you? Its not like its directly affecting you is it?

Are you one of those people that gets overtaken and then says "whats the point in that"

I dont understand why it bothers people :confused:
 
I do say "What's the point in that", because most of the time, there is no point.

Had a classic case this morning. Coming up to a roundabout, I'm in the outside lane, the car behind me decides to undertake me, then pull back in front of me... what's the point.
 
When I am doing between 65 - 70 on a good length of dual carriageway, people overtake me... just because they're in a better car than mine. Fair enough, up to this point - you got it, you flaunt it. It is when they FRIGGING SLOW DOWN AFTERWARDS WHICH GETS MY BACK UP£$%$"%^$%345435.

What the HELL is the point in overtaking me only to go about their journey at a pace slower than what I was doing in the first place.

Rant over.
 
Sometimes I will overtake quicker and then slow down but it doesn't mean anything other than

I'm going at 80, car infront is doing 79, rather than sit up their backside I will overtake, rather than overtaking s-l-o-w-l-y at +1mph I will speed up and go past asap then pull back in and slow down again.

Why it annoys people so much is a mystery to me!
 
A few MPG less for about 1/2 mile isn't going to break the bank, if you drop your speed it means playing about with the cruise control, you then find that the person in-front may drop even slower and before you know if your pootling along.
 
Oh and I also leave cruise control on so after I take my foot off the pedal it will slow to my original speed, you may be speeding up after people overtake so that it gives you something to moan about.
 
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