One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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craig1912 said:
kowalski655 said:
The 2 wheeled t
t yesterday. I'm in lane 2 on the A1,going to overtake someone in L1 a bit ahead. I'm doing 50,the limit there,when said tt roars up behind me, tailgates for a while,then undertakes me,and as he comes back into L2,looks,back and shakes his head,like it's ME in the wrong! No wonder so many bikers end up as premature organ donors!
If he had chance to tailgate you for a while and then undertake you I would say you are in the wrong as you obviously moved to lane 2 too soon. I'm not a bike fan by the way.t yesterday. I'm in lane 2 on the A1,going to overtake someone in L1 a bit ahead. I'm doing 50,the limit there,when said tt roars up behind me, tailgates for a while,then undertakes me,and as he comes back into L2,looks,back and shakes his head,like it's ME in the wrong! No wonder so many bikers end up as premature organ donors!If you moved out at the right time for an overtake then there wouldn't be room for a bike to overtake on the left.
To clarify, the car I was overtaking was close enough to not warrant pulling into L1 for and allowing an overtake,I would have been on his bumper and tailgating him in seconds. Also I couldn't move into L1 because of some tt undertaking me! 
Motorcycle tailgated me for only a moment,he roared up to mt bumper,and undertook right away. He then zoomed off at a LOT more than the limit.
A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
t undertaking me! Motorcycle tailgated me for only a moment,he roared up to mt bumper,and undertook right away. He then zoomed off at a LOT more than the limit.
A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
kowalski655 said:
Motorcycle tailgated me for only a moment,he roared up to mt bumper,and undertook right away. He then zoomed off at a LOT more than the limit.
A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
For a moment, or for a while? The implied time period is very different between those two terms.A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
OpulentBob said:
Highway maintenance stickers are on all sorts of vehicles. Anyone who may need to stop on a road for working purposes by law has to have a maintenance sticker.
That could be a tree feller who needs to prune an overhanging branch (not a "road worker"), a plant delivery driver (not a "road worker"), a computer IT techy type who needs to download some data from a roadside counter (not a "road worker"). IIRC the only people that don't need them are emergency services.
Just like not every one who drives a Passat TDi is a photocopier salesman, and everyone that drives a 320d is not an IT contractor.
You never did answer, Hackers old chap. What do you do for a living? Your profile is suspiciously blank, yet you like having a dig at the chaps that design and maintain roads... Are you a professional cyclist?
Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know that.That could be a tree feller who needs to prune an overhanging branch (not a "road worker"), a plant delivery driver (not a "road worker"), a computer IT techy type who needs to download some data from a roadside counter (not a "road worker"). IIRC the only people that don't need them are emergency services.
Just like not every one who drives a Passat TDi is a photocopier salesman, and everyone that drives a 320d is not an IT contractor.
You never did answer, Hackers old chap. What do you do for a living? Your profile is suspiciously blank, yet you like having a dig at the chaps that design and maintain roads... Are you a professional cyclist?
But you'd expect someone who's job entails them stopping by the side of the road a lot, who works in close proximity to the road, to have a certain amount of care towards "road worker types" who we know to be road worker types because they are, quite definitely, working on the road.
I didn't realise I'd been asked what I do for a living.
There's nothing suspicious about how blank my profile is, I just don't think it's important. Much like my job, which is not professional cyclist.
I also don't think I like having a dig at the chaps who design and maintain the roads, certainly no more than any other group, what ever gave you that idea?
SonicShadow said:
kowalski655 said:
Motorcycle tailgated me for only a moment,he roared up to mt bumper,and undertook right away. He then zoomed off at a LOT more than the limit.
A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
For a moment, or for a while? The implied time period is very different between those two terms.A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
Pistonheads-exact timings matter
jogger1976 said:
The young girl in the Mk 5 Fiesta this afternoon. It's a bit long winded, but stay with me 
I'm driving down a residential road with parked cars on either side. I see this girl driving towards me,so pull in to a gap and flash her to come through as there is a Focus directly behind her and a Transit waiting to get out of the junction just behind the Focus. I can also see another car following the Focus so decide I might as well let all these vehicles on their way.
For some reason, she carries on and then stops diagonally across behind a parked car. The Focus is now trapped as she is taking up half the road and nobody is able to enter or exit the junction where the Transit is sat.
I flash again and give her a "you first" sign. She shrugs and flashes me. We both do this twice more without success. I think about reversing, but decide this won't make any difference as there's plenty of room for her to drive past.
I edge slowly down and motion for her to move back a little as she has left hardly any room and I'm in a pretty big car. This will also allow me to to get past the Focus and prevent the Transit and other vehicles having to reverse.
This doesn't seem to have any effect as she just stares at me glazed-eyed. I now have to squeeze past her car as I can't reverse due to a skip lorry appearing on the road
The driver of the focus and a Civic behind it now have to reverse, as does the Transit and a Mondeo behind it, as I have to bump up the curb by the junction then enter part of the junction to get past the Focus safely.
I now look like a complete tt inconveniencing all these vehicles as the girls goes on her merry way. 
Please tell me where I'm going wrong?
My commute takes me down a residential road with cars parked on both sides. It's a regular occurrence for me to drive along there, see someone coming the opposite way and decide to wait with a flash of the lights.I'm driving down a residential road with parked cars on either side. I see this girl driving towards me,so pull in to a gap and flash her to come through as there is a Focus directly behind her and a Transit waiting to get out of the junction just behind the Focus. I can also see another car following the Focus so decide I might as well let all these vehicles on their way.
For some reason, she carries on and then stops diagonally across behind a parked car. The Focus is now trapped as she is taking up half the road and nobody is able to enter or exit the junction where the Transit is sat.
I flash again and give her a "you first" sign. She shrugs and flashes me. We both do this twice more without success. I think about reversing, but decide this won't make any difference as there's plenty of room for her to drive past.
I edge slowly down and motion for her to move back a little as she has left hardly any room and I'm in a pretty big car. This will also allow me to to get past the Focus and prevent the Transit and other vehicles having to reverse.
This doesn't seem to have any effect as she just stares at me glazed-eyed. I now have to squeeze past her car as I can't reverse due to a skip lorry appearing on the road
The driver of the focus and a Civic behind it now have to reverse, as does the Transit and a Mondeo behind it, as I have to bump up the curb by the junction then enter part of the junction to get past the Focus safely.
I now look like a complete t
t inconveniencing all these vehicles as the girls goes on her merry way. Please tell me where I'm going wrong?
The other driver then stops somewhere along the clear way and flashes me. OK they may not have seen me flash, but surely they saw that I'd stopped?!
Also regularly see cars pull away from the kerb without looking behind them. Imbeciles.
Total Cksocket tourists who clog up the roads in Cornwall.
This past weekend we were driving down a country lane barely wide enough for a car when a tractor towing a grass cutting trailer comes the other way. I stop, and while checking the mirrors, pop the car in reverse to go back: there is no way a farmer is going to reverse on what is basically his driveway. This is the cue for the tourists on their motorbike to come round the corner and straight up to my rear bumper. I look at the rider in the mirror and he shakes his head at me, his female pillion just shrugs! He then points to the 6 inches of tarmac between the tractor tyre and the hedge suggesting I should bend physics and slot my car in there.
By now the tractor driver is joining in and telling them to go back. They just sit there for a couple of minutes shrugging and shaking their heads!. Finally I start to roll back and they get the hint, walking the bike aproximately 2 feet back and up against the hedge, which gives me just enough room to get past them if I hedge the driver's side of the car.
The best bit?
When he's then faced with the tractor he finally realises that the tractor won't fit past and he then swings round, rides past me and then turns around again to slot in behind me.
You total kb
As for the other breed of tourists who have been down a few times and think they know how to drive on lanes. Flying down a single track lane while straddling the middle of it to avoid hedging your nice paint is just wrong and when you meet another car - get your passenger wing mirror in the hedge FFS
cing ws can fk off back to fing England with this st
ksocket tourists who clog up the roads in Cornwall. This past weekend we were driving down a country lane barely wide enough for a car when a tractor towing a grass cutting trailer comes the other way. I stop, and while checking the mirrors, pop the car in reverse to go back: there is no way a farmer is going to reverse on what is basically his driveway. This is the cue for the tourists on their motorbike to come round the corner and straight up to my rear bumper. I look at the rider in the mirror and he shakes his head at me, his female pillion just shrugs! He then points to the 6 inches of tarmac between the tractor tyre and the hedge suggesting I should bend physics and slot my car in there.
By now the tractor driver is joining in and telling them to go back. They just sit there for a couple of minutes shrugging and shaking their heads!. Finally I start to roll back and they get the hint, walking the bike aproximately 2 feet back and up against the hedge, which gives me just enough room to get past them if I hedge the driver's side of the car.
The best bit?
When he's then faced with the tractor he finally realises that the tractor won't fit past and he then swings round, rides past me and then turns around again to slot in behind me.
You total k
b As for the other breed of tourists who have been down a few times and think they know how to drive on lanes. Flying down a single track lane while straddling the middle of it to avoid hedging your nice paint is just wrong and when you meet another car - get your passenger wing mirror in the hedge FFS
c
ing ws can fk off back to fing England with this st The silver Golf estate on the M3 the other day, London-bound through the average 50 zone around Farnborough. It's down to two lanes on the eastbound carriageway, with third lane as a contra-flow on the other side. Mr. Self-Righteous Geezer in his pathetically boring 63-reg silver Golf decides to sit in L2 at what I am guessing for him was an indicated 50mph, for me an indicated 48mph. Space to the left to pull in to L1, but there's a lorry 100 yards ahead which we are ever so slowly gaining on.
Now in the big scheme of things, indicated 48mph in an average 50 zone is not the biggest deal in the world. But what annoyed me was this self-appointed policeman in his Golf, sitting in the outside lane going at his own speed, thinking that there was no need to pull over and let anybody past because they would be breaking the law by speeding. Well, as far as my speedo was concerned, I could have been going 2mph faster than him and still be within the limit. Made doubly frustrating as there was a huge gap of 500-800 yards infront of him, with a long tail back of vehicles behind me all wanting to get past.
I waited for a nice big gap in L1, then gave a quick flash of the lights. He proceeds to gesture with his hand and fingers the number 5, suggesting he's trying to tell me it's a 50 limit. Yes I know it's a 50 limit you stupid old, now move over and let those who want to travel at the limit do so. I pointed at him and then the empty lane 1, again I am told it's a 50 limit. Had it not been then for the fact we were at this point beginning to gain on the lorry, I would have swung round and demonstrated L1 to him as I passed infront. Eventually the contra flow ended and L3 allowed everybody who had places to get to pass this ridiculous old fool, who had one of those faces of someone who really takes it upon themselves to police everybody else on the road from their criminally awful VAG estate dullbox.
Now in the big scheme of things, indicated 48mph in an average 50 zone is not the biggest deal in the world. But what annoyed me was this self-appointed policeman in his Golf, sitting in the outside lane going at his own speed, thinking that there was no need to pull over and let anybody past because they would be breaking the law by speeding. Well, as far as my speedo was concerned, I could have been going 2mph faster than him and still be within the limit. Made doubly frustrating as there was a huge gap of 500-800 yards infront of him, with a long tail back of vehicles behind me all wanting to get past.
I waited for a nice big gap in L1, then gave a quick flash of the lights. He proceeds to gesture with his hand and fingers the number 5, suggesting he's trying to tell me it's a 50 limit. Yes I know it's a 50 limit you stupid old
, now move over and let those who want to travel at the limit do so. I pointed at him and then the empty lane 1, again I am told it's a 50 limit. Had it not been then for the fact we were at this point beginning to gain on the lorry, I would have swung round and demonstrated L1 to him as I passed infront. Eventually the contra flow ended and L3 allowed everybody who had places to get to pass this ridiculous old fool, who had one of those faces of someone who really takes it upon themselves to police everybody else on the road from their criminally awful VAG estate dullbox. kowalski655 said:
SonicShadow said:
kowalski655 said:
Motorcycle tailgated me for only a moment,he roared up to mt bumper,and undertook right away. He then zoomed off at a LOT more than the limit.
A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
For a moment, or for a while? The implied time period is very different between those two terms.A1 here is 50 limit,2 lanes .
Pistonheads-exact timings matter
It stops people from ASSuming something else
Edited by Hol on Wednesday 5th August 16:41
Pannywagon said:
Dare you to come down here and say that!
Too late, already been there and said it. Anyway if I wanted to drive for 10 hours to go somewhere the locals are unintelligible and the place is filled with bad drivers I'll go to France instead. At least they can make decent wine and the food is better Muddle238 said:
The silver Golf estate on the M3 the other day, London-bound through the average 50 zone around Farnborough. It's down to two lanes on the eastbound carriageway, with third lane as a contra-flow on the other side. Mr. Self-Righteous Geezer in his pathetically boring 63-reg silver Golf decides to sit in L2 at what I am guessing for him was an indicated 50mph, for me an indicated 48mph. Space to the left to pull in to L1, but there's a lorry 100 yards ahead which we are ever so slowly gaining on.
Now in the big scheme of things, indicated 48mph in an average 50 zone is not the biggest deal in the world. But what annoyed me was this self-appointed policeman in his Golf, sitting in the outside lane going at his own speed, thinking that there was no need to pull over and let anybody past because they would be breaking the law by speeding. Well, as far as my speedo was concerned, I could have been going 2mph faster than him and still be within the limit. Made doubly frustrating as there was a huge gap of 500-800 yards infront of him, with a long tail back of vehicles behind me all wanting to get past.
I waited for a nice big gap in L1, then gave a quick flash of the lights. He proceeds to gesture with his hand and fingers the number 5, suggesting he's trying to tell me it's a 50 limit. Yes I know it's a 50 limit you stupid old, now move over and let those who want to travel at the limit do so. I pointed at him and then the empty lane 1, again I am told it's a 50 limit. Had it not been then for the fact we were at this point beginning to gain on the lorry, I would have swung round and demonstrated L1 to him as I passed infront. Eventually the contra flow ended and L3 allowed everybody who had places to get to pass this ridiculous old fool, who had one of those faces of someone who really takes it upon themselves to police everybody else on the road from their criminally awful VAG estate dullbox.
Calm down dear! It's just not worth getting all agitated over such a trifleing event. Try listening to classical music. Worked wonders for me, and I used to be a right tearaway. Try Ludwig Van for starters.Now in the big scheme of things, indicated 48mph in an average 50 zone is not the biggest deal in the world. But what annoyed me was this self-appointed policeman in his Golf, sitting in the outside lane going at his own speed, thinking that there was no need to pull over and let anybody past because they would be breaking the law by speeding. Well, as far as my speedo was concerned, I could have been going 2mph faster than him and still be within the limit. Made doubly frustrating as there was a huge gap of 500-800 yards infront of him, with a long tail back of vehicles behind me all wanting to get past.
I waited for a nice big gap in L1, then gave a quick flash of the lights. He proceeds to gesture with his hand and fingers the number 5, suggesting he's trying to tell me it's a 50 limit. Yes I know it's a 50 limit you stupid old
, now move over and let those who want to travel at the limit do so. I pointed at him and then the empty lane 1, again I am told it's a 50 limit. Had it not been then for the fact we were at this point beginning to gain on the lorry, I would have swung round and demonstrated L1 to him as I passed infront. Eventually the contra flow ended and L3 allowed everybody who had places to get to pass this ridiculous old fool, who had one of those faces of someone who really takes it upon themselves to police everybody else on the road from their criminally awful VAG estate dullbox. Not a heavy symphony, lets say the violin or the triple concerto. No 'knob' behaviour can overcome such beauty.
Now I know full well that the purpose of this thread is for the report of knobbery to be turned back against the reporter, but I think you'll have difficulty with this one ...
This afternoon (perfect visibility in that there was no rain, fog, darkness or swarms of locusts to darken the environment) I was waiting to pull out of a filling station, turning left on to the road. The stream of traffic from my right included a milk tanker followed by a white van with his headlights on full beam. When I pull out behind them I see that the milk tanker has his rear floodlights on. Now - is the milk tanker driver a knob for driving (illegally) with his floods on, while the vanman is merely trying to point this out to him, or is the vanman a knob for driving with his main beams on and the tanker driver is being public-spirited in trying to tell him, or are neither of them knobs, or both of them ? Or was it somehow my fault ?
This afternoon (perfect visibility in that there was no rain, fog, darkness or swarms of locusts to darken the environment) I was waiting to pull out of a filling station, turning left on to the road. The stream of traffic from my right included a milk tanker followed by a white van with his headlights on full beam. When I pull out behind them I see that the milk tanker has his rear floodlights on. Now - is the milk tanker driver a knob for driving (illegally) with his floods on, while the vanman is merely trying to point this out to him, or is the vanman a knob for driving with his main beams on and the tanker driver is being public-spirited in trying to tell him, or are neither of them knobs, or both of them ? Or was it somehow my fault ?
Stereotypical behaviour from White van man this afternoon.
Reverses into the car parked behind him to enable him to pull out onto the street and then....
Scrapes the NSR corner of the Royal Mail van in front of me to pull out,I could hear the scrape/crunch myself,
so how van knob didn't I don't know because he just carried on and drove off.
Postie got out and looked a bit miffed.
Reverses into the car parked behind him to enable him to pull out onto the street and then....
Scrapes the NSR corner of the Royal Mail van in front of me to pull out,I could hear the scrape/crunch myself,
so how van knob didn't I don't know because he just carried on and drove off.
Postie got out and looked a bit miffed.
kowalski655 said:
A second or two I guess, sorry I didnt set my stopwatch,not enough to justify an undertake , nor a shake of the head! Not that it matters as I was at the speed limit, so our 2 wheeled friend cant really complain!
Pistonheads-exact timings matter
I really hope you are kidding about the speed limit. It is completely irrelevant what speed you were going - L2 is for overtaking, and you either were or were not overtaking. It ain't your job to be a rolling road block to police the speed limit. Pistonheads-exact timings matter
Me for getting caught by a team of police with cameras going at a velocity which, because i was slowing, was either over the speed limit to the tune of just 3 points, or I could be in a bit of bother. The motorway-ish bit as you exit Manchester airport and join the eastbound M56. I realised I didn't actually know the limit on that section, not great.
Pannywagon said:
Dare you to come down here and say that!
I'm no Cornish nationalist, but do like to moan about emmetts as much as the next local, and Cornwall's a Duchy (technically).
Wondered why the fella in the toll booth on the Tamar bridge laughs at me when I flashes my passport at him as I drive thru?I'm no Cornish nationalist, but do like to moan about emmetts as much as the next local, and Cornwall's a Duchy (technically).
ORD said:
kowalski655 said:
A second or two I guess, sorry I didnt set my stopwatch,not enough to justify an undertake , nor a shake of the head! Not that it matters as I was at the speed limit, so our 2 wheeled friend cant really complain!
Pistonheads-exact timings matter
I really hope you are kidding about the speed limit. It is completely irrelevant what speed you were going - L2 is for overtaking, and you either were or were not overtaking. It ain't your job to be a rolling road block to police the speed limit. Pistonheads-exact timings matter
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