Slow drivers on country lanes

[kuro]

Took my mx5 down to my local beach with my youngest daughter today. Looking forward to the drive as the weather is still good. Unfortunately on the way there and back I was stuck behind slower than a slow thing drivers.

Now I dont want to drive like an F1 driver but I do want to travel at a reasonable pace and enjoy the car, In the end I was nearly screaming. Do these people not realise the frustration they cause.

[Krikkit]

Nope. In my experience they bimble along in their own little isolated world with no care for driving properly. They're too busy talking abut X-factor, or which of their friends did what etc.

[Bebee]

I know the feeling, I'm forever getting stuck down country lanes behind an MX5, not until a gap or road widen can I engage second cam.

[Baryonyx]

Get a motorbike.

[jmorgan]

Whilst there can be the too slow, the limit is not a target. When I used to drive an elderly relative, slow was always best.

[Snollygoster]

Aren't the speed limits on national speed limit country lanes 30mph?

[Bebee]

Snollygoster said:

Aren't the speed limits on national speed limit country lanes 30mph?

I'm on a country lane and it's 70, you couldn't do that speed if you tried, not without impact on a hedge or tree.

[lord trumpton]

Without wanting to sound all high and mighty, should you really thinking about hooning with your youngest daughter in the passenger seat?

[Snollygoster]

lord trumpton said:

Without wanting to sound all high and mighty, should you really thinking about hooning with your youngest daughter in the passenger seat?

He doesn't sound like a hooning drive to be fair. He did also say "Now I dont want to drive like an F1 driver but I do want to travel at a reasonable pace and enjoy the car, In the end I was nearly screaming. Do these people not realise the frustration they cause.".

Bet the women (assuming here) was doing about 20-25 if it's like the country lanes near me.

[mwstewart]

lord trumpton said:

Without wanting to sound all high and mighty, should you really thinking about hooning with your youngest daughter in the passenger seat?

Different strokes...

I have fantastic memories from childhood of being strapped up in the passenger seat whilst Dad was doing just so. I absolutely loved it. When the time comes I won't wrap my kids up in cotton wool.

[Johnnytheboy]

PH 2014: the op must be wrong if he wants to drive fast one a country road.

My commute home culminates with a 3-4 mile single track lane.

Because I go the same way at the same time most nights, there are certain vehicles I catch up on the journey home whose mere appearance fills me with dread, as I know full well they are going to turn in to my lane and go at ~50% of my speed for the last few miles.

On the positive side, I tend to find that the slower a driver is, the less likely they are to give way to any oncoming traffic, so they do at least plough a path for me.

[guns80]

Living in the country it can be a problem, however you tend to live with those drivers who trundle along at 25-30. However the real dangers are those who won't even go above 20 and even stop randomly to look at the view blocking the whole road!

[SV8Predator]

Bebee said:

I'm on a country lane and it's 70, you couldn't do that speed if you tried, not without impact on a hedge or tree.

Tell us about this country lane that has a 70mph speed limit?

Where is it exactly?

[GadgeS3C]

SV8Predator said:

Bebee said:

I'm on a country lane and it's 70, you couldn't do that speed if you tried, not without impact on a hedge or tree.

Tell us about this country lane that has a 70mph speed limit?

Where is it exactly?

Perhaps he's from over the pond and he means the M6 toll

[leafspring]

SV8Predator said:

Bebee said:

I'm on a country lane and it's 70, you couldn't do that speed if you tried, not without impact on a hedge or tree.

Tell us about this country lane that has a 70mph speed limit?

Where is it exactly?

NSL on a single track/B road is 60, not 70. 70 is dual carriage way/motorway NSL. There's even a PH T-shirt that says "Life Begins at 60"

Even I try and keep my Series III Land Rover above 45/50 in the right conditions... my point?

If you've just been overtaken by a 40 year old 4x4 with 80hp(on a good day) and only 4 forward gears... you aren't going fast enough

Edited by leafspring on Saturday 20th September 21:47

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mwstewart said:

lord trumpton said:

Without wanting to sound all high and mighty, should you really thinking about hooning with your youngest daughter in the passenger seat?

Different strokes...

I have fantastic memories from childhood of being strapped up in the passenger seat whilst Dad was doing just so. I absolutely loved it. When the time comes I won't wrap my kids up in cotton wool.

One of my favorite memories and the thing that got me into cars was sliding about on the leather back seat of my dads e30 325i when I was about 10 years old as he flew down a country lane, if it wasn't for irresponsible parenting I would've probably grown up to be a boring sod with a eurobox.

[Motorrad]

Baryonyx said:

Get a motorbike.

Indeed bimbling retards in cars are naught but a memory and it means I can become another biker's road block while I bimble along talking to the voices in my head about x dancing factor on ice.

[MoelyCrio]

guns80 said:

and even stop randomly to look at the view blocking the whole road!

We love on signposted tourist route and often a car will stop to admire the view over the Wirral without even pulling over.

[poing]

Johnnytheboy said:

On the positive side, I tend to find that the slower a driver is, the less likely they are to give way to any oncoming traffic, so they do at least plough a path for me.

I've noticed this. Because they drive slow it seems it creates enough space for 2 cars to pass all of a sudden! They are often the ones in the middle of the road around blind bends and over blind crests. I guess in their head slow means safe because the government says it is.

[Johnnytheboy]

MoelyCrio said:

We love on signposted tourist route and often a car will stop to admire the view over the Wirral without even pulling over.

You should do your loving elsewhere then.