Blocked from overtaking

[Biker 1]

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. wker!
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??

[Biker 1]

rb5er said:

Get a much faster car.

If only!!!! Sadly funds do not permit - wife's car, normally used for local commuting, so no point in having high powered gas guzzler.... I have a motorcycle & old stter of a Honda for when the weather's bad to commute!

[Biker 1]

Just to be clear:

1. wker who blocked me was definitely NOT trying to overtake the car in front of him
2. I was keeping at least 2 seconds back from said wker: I am very careful to keep a decent braking distance. Always
3. wker for sure saw me in mirros & deliberately closed gap & accelerated hard
4. Road is a 2 lane A road: very wide bypass section, with enough space to overtake in both directions. I have been down this road many times & there is never usually a problem
5. The 'more powerful car, this is PH' issue: I have a motorcycle for the adrenaline rush!!

[Biker 1]

LunarOne said:

Perhaps you should look into an E36 M3!

Its the missus car. Much as I like the idea, her commute is 10 minutes tops, & I shudder to think of her driving an M3 with high heels

[Biker 1]

xjay1337 said:

But the idea was to buy a FAST car.....

Anything over 1100cc, normally aspirated, is too fast for her....

[Biker 1]

SilverSixer said:

fk me. Really? Point me to the section of the Highway Code which endorses this. I'm sure the bit I've read says that overtaking into oncoming traffic is not recommended.

Probably not explained myself clearly: road is very wide - I have seen lorries on this section in BOTH directions, being overtaken simultaneously, with plenty of room for error, not crossing the centre lines, & apparently not dangerous. Strange that they never turned it into a dual carriageway...
As for highway code: I don't know the answer to this one

[Biker 1]

DanSI said:

Why do you care, you got to your destination safely, if several seconds later.

Why?? Isn't that a bit of non-PH thing to say???? I went for a simple overtake & was blocked by unacceptably poor driving, endangering me & other road users. I could've played 'chicken' with said wker, which could have got potentially very nasty, particularly involving several tonnes of metal 'competing' on a public road. Fortunately I know when to back-off - other may not have done....

[Biker 1]

DanSI said:

Sorry OP, I apologize to everyone for not responding F'ing and blinding, because your litre car failed to overtake a Bimmer.
Plus it's been how many hours since this catastrophic event occurred?

Get over it, or get a faster car!

Err.... it was actually a Toyota....

[Biker 1]

johnwilliams77 said:

It doesn't explore the mindset if there is a quiet road ahead of mr 1l.

I wouldn't have bothered attempting the overtake if there was a long queue ahead. There was an A class Merc in front of wker in Toyota, & a few cars in the distance. Nice stretch of road where you can (normally...) pick off cars at this point as very wide bypass. I guess I'm too used to leaving people in my motorcycle wake....II
Interesting comments on this thread, though some of them seem a tad harsh/aggressive... I guess nothing short of trading her indoor's Hyundai for a Caterham Superlight will satisfy you lot!

[Biker 1]

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 wker intentionally decides to almost run you into the other side of the road, as happened to me.