One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
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jogger1976 said:
The driver of the black 5 series AF55 J??, who decided he wanted to exit junction 10a of the northbound M1 this afternoon. This would normally be fine, except that he was in lane 4 and decided to exit about 2 car lengths from the white Mercedes convertible seen here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.848955,-0.422193...
He narrowly avoided clipping my front offside as he flew across the hatchings and was a fag paper from rear ending a Transit, which he tried to undertake using the slip road hard shoulder. To top it all, he completely ignored the traffic signal at the top of the slip road. Thus narrowly avoiding colliding with vehicles from the right. And the irony of all this; about 300 metres on from the roundabout were the BIB manning a speed trap through the junction improvements
That's why I have a dash Cam (that and the fact my excess is £750 on the classic car policy).He narrowly avoided clipping my front offside as he flew across the hatchings and was a fag paper from rear ending a Transit, which he tried to undertake using the slip road hard shoulder. To top it all, he completely ignored the traffic signal at the top of the slip road. Thus narrowly avoiding colliding with vehicles from the right. And the irony of all this; about 300 metres on from the roundabout were the BIB manning a speed trap through the junction improvements
An ex work colleague on Facebook who, in between posting pro fatness memes, rants and raves about every hyped and over exaggerated anti hunting and animal cruelty story.
Now on there moaning because her and her family went on holiday for a week leaving her elderly cat to fend for its self and a neighbour took it to the vets as they were so concerned for it.
A cull is in order I think.
Now on there moaning because her and her family went on holiday for a week leaving her elderly cat to fend for its self and a neighbour took it to the vets as they were so concerned for it.
A cull is in order I think.
I know it's been done to death a million times (I've mentioned it before here)and I'll probably get flamed, but this week I've witnessed some truly arrogant, inconsiderate and dangerous filtering from a variety of motorcyclists.
The incidents have all occurred in heavily congested traffic, some of which was flowing quite quickly, and some stop-start/stationary. On each occasion, the bikes have been moving at high speed, with minimal gaps, sometimes weaving in and out of traffic.
Three examples that stand out. M1 yesterday, heading northbound. Traffic is very busy, but moving. A rider on a Pan European filtering got shirty with a car driver and held his hands up in a WTF? gesture, then gave him the coffee beans because he wouldn't move over quickly enough. This evening on the A1 in stationary traffic, a rider on an R1200 GS, with massive f
k off panniers tried to force his way through several cars.He was lucky he didn't take a wing mirror off. Monday on the M1 at rush hour. A sports bike (not sure which one) was filtering in the outside lane in excess of the limit (50mph), despite heavy congestion and people changing lanes every 30 seconds.
Could I ask the opinion of the bikers on the forum with regards to filtering? The reason for this is to see whether I'm missing something (I'm not a biker myself)or whether these bikers
were in fact being reasonable?
The incidents have all occurred in heavily congested traffic, some of which was flowing quite quickly, and some stop-start/stationary. On each occasion, the bikes have been moving at high speed, with minimal gaps, sometimes weaving in and out of traffic.
Three examples that stand out. M1 yesterday, heading northbound. Traffic is very busy, but moving. A rider on a Pan European filtering got shirty with a car driver and held his hands up in a WTF? gesture, then gave him the coffee beans because he wouldn't move over quickly enough. This evening on the A1 in stationary traffic, a rider on an R1200 GS, with massive f
k off panniers tried to force his way through several cars.He was lucky he didn't take a wing mirror off. Monday on the M1 at rush hour. A sports bike (not sure which one) was filtering in the outside lane in excess of the limit (50mph), despite heavy congestion and people changing lanes every 30 seconds.Could I ask the opinion of the bikers on the forum with regards to filtering? The reason for this is to see whether I'm missing something (I'm not a biker myself)or whether these bikers
were in fact being reasonable?
lightthefuse said:
1) Check keys are in car
2) Lock doors
3) Close doors (admittedly some have functionality to stop this from happening, but on a Ka, I don't think so)
Sit back and laugh as said tit is locked out...
My Father in Law showed me that lifting the handle as you close stops that functionality. Can't remember if it did on my KA, but certainly does on the MX5!2) Lock doors
3) Close doors (admittedly some have functionality to stop this from happening, but on a Ka, I don't think so)
Sit back and laugh as said tit is locked out...
Obviously I now always do it when leaving the car and it's only a matter of time before my keys end up locked in there.
People who overtake on blind corners.
Saw two doing it ahead of me tonight.
The first one was in a 1.9TDI Audi in a line of traffic doing 40 in a 40. He saw a straight bit of road and thought about it for a few seconds, then decided it wasn't worth it. Then out of nowhere decides to go for his overtake mid corner!
Luckily the oncoming car was traveling slow enough that he managed to come to a complete stop allowing the Audi to shunt his way back into the line of traffic without killing anyone.
The best part is that after risking his own life to overtake 1 car he remained in the line of traffic for another mile before turning off. Completely fking stupid.
The second was a little Toyota that decided to cross a double solid white line on a corner into the overtaking lane (single carriage splits into crawler and overtaking lane on other side) just to overtake 1 car. And the best part about this guys maneuver was that after the corner was a mile stretch of open road!!
Two people risking head on collisions for absolutely fk all!
The police need to drop their speed cameras and start getting some of these idiots off the roads.
Saw two doing it ahead of me tonight.
The first one was in a 1.9TDI Audi in a line of traffic doing 40 in a 40. He saw a straight bit of road and thought about it for a few seconds, then decided it wasn't worth it. Then out of nowhere decides to go for his overtake mid corner!
Luckily the oncoming car was traveling slow enough that he managed to come to a complete stop allowing the Audi to shunt his way back into the line of traffic without killing anyone.
The best part is that after risking his own life to overtake 1 car he remained in the line of traffic for another mile before turning off. Completely f
king stupid.The second was a little Toyota that decided to cross a double solid white line on a corner into the overtaking lane (single carriage splits into crawler and overtaking lane on other side) just to overtake 1 car. And the best part about this guys maneuver was that after the corner was a mile stretch of open road!!
Two people risking head on collisions for absolutely f
k all!The police need to drop their speed cameras and start getting some of these idiots off the roads.
Liquid Knight said:
Preservation of a crime scene takes priority over you being ten seconds late to your anger management session I'm afraid.
What crime scene? He's talking about minor bumps. America is littered with sensible signs saying "FENDER BENDER? PULL OFF MAIN CARRIAGEWAY".Sensible advice, rather than the twits in this country that think a 5mph bump is reason to stop their car in a live lane whilst they wait for the police to turn up and apportion blame. What is the first thing the police want to do once they've assesses that no one is seriously injured? Move the cars and clear the carriageway!
The fat tt who yesterday felt the need to straddle 2 parent and child parking bays at a local supermarket yesterday in her 5 Series BMW. Which also had an M5 badge stuck on the rear despite it only probably being a 520D (small brake discs and small single tailpipe). Then she had the audacity to look at me like i was being unreasonable when i asked her to move (she was just sat in the car, no sign of any children). She moved but continued to shake her head through out reversing whilst her several chins shook from side to side. fking tt
t who yesterday felt the need to straddle 2 parent and child parking bays at a local supermarket yesterday in her 5 Series BMW. Which also had an M5 badge stuck on the rear despite it only probably being a 520D (small brake discs and small single tailpipe). Then she had the audacity to look at me like i was being unreasonable when i asked her to move (she was just sat in the car, no sign of any children). She moved but continued to shake her head through out reversing whilst her several chins shook from side to side. fking ttm8rky said:
An ex work colleague on Facebook who, in between posting pro fatness memes, rants and raves about every hyped and over exaggerated anti hunting and animal cruelty story.
Now on there moaning because her and her family went on holiday for a week leaving her elderly cat to fend for its self and a neighbour took it to the vets as they were so concerned for it.
A cull is in order I think.
Too right, I hate cats too m8rky, a cull is needed Now on there moaning because her and her family went on holiday for a week leaving her elderly cat to fend for its self and a neighbour took it to the vets as they were so concerned for it.
A cull is in order I think.
A silly sod in a green 206 that seemed to take a great deal of delight at keeping cars behind them by coming off the A1 on to the A689 (the same place that I had a run in earlier on in the week) by staying in the right hand lane doing fifty until the lanes closed down to a single then promptly hit sixty.
In this instance a BMW 320 came round the roundabout off the A1 and hit the brakes to prevent undertaking the 206 while on the roundabout, fair enough could be moving across to the left lane, and stayed there meanwhile having come on to the dual lane exit on to the A689 an A4 decided that they'd overtake me and the BMW only to get stuck behind this tit who stayed as far right as possible making sure that the BMW had to slow right down to let the A4 slot in between the 206 and BMW, the A4 gets past as soon as the road markings allow, with oncoming traffic stopping any further overtakes.
Further down the road and we're coming up to the roundabout at Rushyford where traffic normally splits in to two lanes voluntarily before it officially splits to keep traffic moving (another lots of knobs story right there, all in one go too) and the 206 starts weaving from side to side to prevent the BMW from getting past up the left before they decide to go into the right lane. They stop at the entrance to the roundabout which has clear sighting for the better part of 200 metres (and it was the emptiest I've ever seen that roundabout, wasn't a car to seen on it or at the other roads leading on to it) before proceeding at a crawl around it to the third exit (with me behind at this point, thankfully I was off at the second).
In this instance a BMW 320 came round the roundabout off the A1 and hit the brakes to prevent undertaking the 206 while on the roundabout, fair enough could be moving across to the left lane, and stayed there meanwhile having come on to the dual lane exit on to the A689 an A4 decided that they'd overtake me and the BMW only to get stuck behind this tit who stayed as far right as possible making sure that the BMW had to slow right down to let the A4 slot in between the 206 and BMW, the A4 gets past as soon as the road markings allow, with oncoming traffic stopping any further overtakes.
Further down the road and we're coming up to the roundabout at Rushyford where traffic normally splits in to two lanes voluntarily before it officially splits to keep traffic moving (another lots of knobs story right there, all in one go too) and the 206 starts weaving from side to side to prevent the BMW from getting past up the left before they decide to go into the right lane. They stop at the entrance to the roundabout which has clear sighting for the better part of 200 metres (and it was the emptiest I've ever seen that roundabout, wasn't a car to seen on it or at the other roads leading on to it) before proceeding at a crawl around it to the third exit (with me behind at this point, thankfully I was off at the second).
Cliftonite said:
The driver of the red, van type thing with side windows and sliding doors on a dual-carriageway who pulled out in front of me to overtake. The bicycles attached to the rear partially obscured the number plate, as usual and as expected, but also, in this case, the off-side rearlights, stop lights and (most importantly, perhaps) the right-hand turn signal.
Ah, cycle carrier tt man. I've just done a 3,000 mile Euro road trip and these knobbers are everywhere, doing exactly what you've just described.The people carrier in front of me today on an urban road that encountered one of those pseudo-chicanes - the sort where the edge of the road is painted to look like the kerb is built out. There are posts marking this, but they are safely out of the way on the pavement. People carrier person simply stopped, perhaps wondering if their vehicle would fit through this tiny gap that was exactly the same width as the rest of the road.
After waiting for several cars coming the other way to drive past quite normally people carrier person then moved into the exact middle of the road and carefully threaded their way through, keeping close watch on the six feet of empty space on each side.
After waiting for several cars coming the other way to drive past quite normally people carrier person then moved into the exact middle of the road and carefully threaded their way through, keeping close watch on the six feet of empty space on each side.
Cyclist crawling up a very steep hill in the middle of the road, making it very difficult to pass. Quite narrow but NSL, winding and with only limited passing opportunities. At one of these I used my horn to warn any approaching vehicles that weren't visible of my presence (as people have a habit of driving rather too fast down the hill). Lycra lout thinks I've honked at him and gives me the beans, weaving and shouting so much that the person now stuck behind him can't pass safely and is therefore stuck behind him at 3mph for pretty much the rest of the hill.
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t.Edited by ManOpener on Saturday 23 August 19:57
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