One single thing that makes you think "Class"

[daytona365]

Anything west of the river Medway.

[IntriguedUser]

Swanny87 said:

People who move out into L3 (provided it is clear) when you indicate in advance of overtaking something in L1. The use of indicators is misunderstood and most people only use them to tell not show intention. Yet people react well to an early signal (as above). We live in a strange world...

I do that all the time, it shows good observation skills, problem is, most people will stay in L2, and then flash and honk the driver for pulling in front to get round the lorry, and then tailgate until he passes the lorry and moves back into L1....

Some people say thanks when I do it, others have absolutely no idea that I'm helping them.

[rohrl]

When a motorist notices an emergency vehicle approaching from behind in good time and doesn't panic but sensibly creates a space for them to get through the traffic.

[IntriguedUser]

rohrl said:

When a motorist notices an emergency vehicle approaching from behind in good time and doesn't panic but sensibly creates a space for them to get through the traffic.

+1

Some people make a right meal out it, some people pull over, as though they're bloody parking, then just pull straight back out! Keep it moving guys. Some people pull over way to early too, I do wonder about some people!

[J4CKO]

Acknowledging via a friendly gesture when another driver has gone out of their way to allow you through, out of a junction etc, cheshire mummies in Range Rovers wearing huge shades that make you look like and eight stone orange fly take note !

[daytona365]

E30 BMW's snapped under an ethereal sky.

[s m]

Willy Nilly said:

Oh, class not Claas?

Walking past a room full of 30 kids, all facing forward and sitting quietly and attentively at their desks......

[texaxile]

Maybe not "class" , more good manners, but I overheard a Dad telling his daughter to be very careful getting into the car and to watch the door on the car parked next to them. Or the immaculate blue Austin 3000 driven by the elderly gent I saw on the Woodbridge road in Ipswich yesterday, waving and acknowledging anyone who waved or gave him the thumbs up.

[KAgantua]

daytona365 said:

Anything west of the river Medway.

Is the truth.

[anonymous-user]

Blokes standing up when a lady leaves the dining table - and again when she returns.

[GetCarter]

Those who don't just transmit, but receive. It takes real class to open your ears and shut your mouth.

[iSore]

A £500 car with a seriously valuable number plate, BJ2 or something like that.

Apart from that, general good manners and considerate driving.

[All that jazz]

280E said:

Blokes standing up when a lady leaves the dining table - and again when she returns.

[Lgfst]

Jasandjules said:

When I am in the middle lane and closing on an MLM but the guy in the outside lane is going fairly quickly so I don't want to pull out, they then notice I will get trapped and flash to let me out.

This. Courteous road users. And the first post, always nice to see a good car being driven courteously IMO.

I also like it when people wave thanks or flash their hazard lights when you see them closing in on a car and you move over to let them out. I find not many people say thanks these days.

[Spanna]

iSore said:

A £500 car with a seriously valuable number plate, BJ2 or something like that.

Apart from that, general good manners and considerate driving.

There's an old Fiat Panda 4x4 local to me with a 4 digit number plate. Always looks very clean and the driver is always smiling.

I always enjoy talking to an old chap who is enthusiastic about their motors. 'Old Alan' who is in his late 70's, I often see him up the local bike shop, he's got a 60's Bonneville he can no longer ride, but he cherishes it like an expensive ornament and starts it up regularly. He bought a modern Merc estate but kept his old trusty Primera eGT and uses it at weekends. He's class.

[budfox]

Me, when approaching this hidden dip with a very 'eager' motorcyclist behind:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.943372,-3.124008...

I knew the dip was there, and I assumed he didn't. By moving over tight to the left I gave him just enough space to squeeze between me and the car he was most certainly not expecting to see coming the other way as he overtook.

Reckon the head on collision would have made a right mess of his day, and I'm sure he needed to wash his leathers afterwards.

[grimmac]

budfox said:

Me, when approaching this hidden dip with a very 'eager' motorcyclist behind:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.943372,-3.124008...

I knew the dip was there, and I assumed he didn't. By moving over tight to the left I gave him just enough space to squeeze between me and the car he was most certainly not expecting to see coming the other way as he overtook.

Reckon the head on collision would have made a right mess of his day, and I'm sure he needed to wash his leathers afterwards.

Is it possible they may have more appreciated you moving to the offside prior to this point, discouraging his overtake with possibly even a right indicator and / or arm out the window.... And then move to the nearside to invite his overtake at a point you know to be more suitable?

Had it been a van or wide trailercoming out the dip would there still have been sufficient room or could it have ended differently?

[budfox]

grimmac said:

Is it possible they may have more appreciated you moving to the offside prior to this point, discouraging his overtake with possibly even a right indicator and / or arm out the window.... And then move to the nearside to invite his overtake at a point you know to be more suitable?

Had it been a van or wide trailercoming out the dip would there still have been sufficient room or could it have ended differently?

Very reasonable suggestions if he'd been behind me for a while but he caught me up very quickly and I think he'd have overtaken regardless. Easy to think of a different course of action after the event but there was no accident and I'd do the same thing again under the same circumstances.

[kith]

A conservatively driven Maserati Quattroporte, burbling around town.

[Cliftonite]

grimmac said:

Is it possible they may have more appreciated you moving to the offside prior to this point, discouraging his overtake with possibly even a right indicator and / or arm out the window.... And then move to the nearside to invite his overtake at a point you know to be more suitable?

Had it been a van or wide trailercoming out the dip would there still have been sufficient room or could it have ended differently?

Aka incitement to road rage?

For this to work, motorcyclist would have needed to 'twig' your reason for doing it. And Sod's Law would mean that there would then have been nothing emerging from the dip to give him a clue!

Edited by Cliftonite on Sunday 5th July 14:13