Blocked from overtaking
Discussion
I can't tell what it is???
cb1965 said:
Biker 1 said:
Bank holiday A road. NSL, usual nobs doing 50, & very few places to safely overtake. Eventually get to long straight where its possible to overtake, even with oncoming traffic, as nice wide bypass. I check mirrors, indicate, drop it a cog, pull-out & floor it. What does the nob in front do just as I am starting to pass him?? Floors it so I have no way of continuing the manoeuvre & have to drop in behind him again, braking hard. w
ker!
1. I don't understand what he was trying to achieve
2. It was fking scary & downright dangerous
3. Is that sort of behaviour legal??
Get a modified supercharged V8 and then whatever they do is irrelevant, HTH :-)ker!1. I don't understand what he was trying to achieve
2. It was f
king scary & downright dangerous3. Is that sort of behaviour legal??
Hol said:
I can imagine that overtaking whilst riding the white line on a bike whilst there is oncoming traffic is potentially OK in some circumstances, but in a car where you have to straddle two lanes you are either insisting (or worse hoping) that the car coming the other way is going to move left to let you.
Obviously I didn't make myself clear 
:To overtake on this stretch of road, one does NOT__ need to cross the centre line to overtake under normal conditions. __ONLY when some w
ker intentionally decides to almost run you into the other side of the road, as happened to me. 
Biker 1 said:
To overtake on this stretch of road, one does NOT__ need to cross the centre line to overtake under normal conditions. __ONLY when some wker intentionally decides to almost run you into the other side of the road, as happened to me.
Which just happened to me today - wide trunk road, 206 in front overtakes an old van/caravan thing which is over to the left (206's o/s wheels just over the centreline of the road), I follow only to find the muppet is drifting right across to the centreline as I'm passing him. Pretty sure deliberate as (a) my car was yellow; and (b) my horn was on permanently as I realised what he was doing, yet he continued pushing me across!ker intentionally decides to almost run you into the other side of the road, as happened to me. Thankfully the opposite side was clear for long enough, so I could get past...but another few hundred yards or a slower car and I'd have risked a head-on with the rep who decided to overtake the oncoming HGV without bothering to check.
Muppets...muppets everywhere!
Biker 1 said:
Hol said:
I can imagine that overtaking whilst riding the white line on a bike whilst there is oncoming traffic is potentially OK in some circumstances, but in a car where you have to straddle two lanes you are either insisting (or worse hoping) that the car coming the other way is going to move left to let you.
Obviously I didn't make myself clear :To overtake on this stretch of road, one does NOT__ need to cross the centre line to overtake under normal conditions. __ONLY when some w
ker intentionally decides to almost run you into the other side of the road, as happened to me. So no, clearly you didn't.
This is such a regular event now that when I'm about to overtake something, I don't ask "Can I overtake safely with the distance available", but "Can I overtake safely in the distance available if this muppet decides to accelerate whilst I'm overtaking". The numpties who think the single carriageway NSL is somewhere between 37 and 45 mph are usually the worst for trying to stop you from overtaking them.
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