One single thing that makes you think "knob"
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Lady cyclist I saw this morning - wearing a helmet, but the straps were hanging loose.
I mean, cycle helmets aren't the most efficient things in the world, the main reasons I wear mine are that I can't expect my kids to wear theirs if I don't wear mine, and in the case where I might fall off and bump my head lightly I'd rather scratch cheap plastic than myself, but even that last minor (arguable) benefit is completely undermined if the ruddy thing would fall off long before the head / tarmac meeting?
I mean, cycle helmets aren't the most efficient things in the world, the main reasons I wear mine are that I can't expect my kids to wear theirs if I don't wear mine, and in the case where I might fall off and bump my head lightly I'd rather scratch cheap plastic than myself, but even that last minor (arguable) benefit is completely undermined if the ruddy thing would fall off long before the head / tarmac meeting?
doogz said:
There really was no point in the manouvre, other than to display to other road users what a prick he was.
I find taxi drivers are very good at this manoeuvre and like to do it a lot. This morning whilst cycling I had one following me at an unusually long distance despite me trundling and him having lots of room to pass. Then he must have woken up and decided - no, f
k this, I'm coming through - comes past me with his left indicator on, then immediately slams on the brakes as he wants to turn into the side road. Can't, I'm there. Just sits there blocking the road, smiling inanely, as I come past on the inside. Da fuq?The guy on the motorway who keeps overtaking me, then slowing down, forcing me to overtake him, then coming shooting past, and then slowing down again, over the course of a mile or so. Meanwhile there's me, with cruise control set and not changing my speed. Really highlights the knob factor, cruise control does!
lazystudent said:
The guy on the motorway who keeps overtaking me, then slowing down, forcing me to overtake him, then coming shooting past, and then slowing down again, over the course of a mile or so. Meanwhile there's me, with cruise control set and not changing my speed. Really highlights the knob factor, cruise control does!
Oh yes. So much.Munter said:
lazystudent said:
The guy on the motorway who keeps overtaking me, then slowing down, forcing me to overtake him, then coming shooting past, and then slowing down again, over the course of a mile or so. Meanwhile there's me, with cruise control set and not changing my speed. Really highlights the knob factor, cruise control does!
Oh yes. So much.no-worries88 said:
When someone spits in the street,would quite happily shoot anyone that did that.
Pulled up at a set of lights behind a 'barried' Subaru this morning.All I saw was the jet of breath followed by a huge loogie which landed and steamed when it hit the gound. (was quite chilly this morn'.) I have a fairly solid constitution but that made me feel quite queezy.
R300will said:
Munter said:
lazystudent said:
The guy on the motorway who keeps overtaking me, then slowing down, forcing me to overtake him, then coming shooting past, and then slowing down again, over the course of a mile or so. Meanwhile there's me, with cruise control set and not changing my speed. Really highlights the knob factor, cruise control does!
Oh yes. So much.lazystudent said:
R300will said:
Munter said:
lazystudent said:
The guy on the motorway who keeps overtaking me, then slowing down, forcing me to overtake him, then coming shooting past, and then slowing down again, over the course of a mile or so. Meanwhile there's me, with cruise control set and not changing my speed. Really highlights the knob factor, cruise control does!
Oh yes. So much.
Big Rod said:
Pulled up at a set of lights behind a 'barried' Subaru this morning.
All I saw was the jet of breath followed by a huge loogie which landed and steamed when it hit the gound. (was quite chilly this morn'.) I have a fairly solid constitution but that made me feel quite queezy.
Same here,absolutely disgusting,theres a few pubs round here now with signs in the smoking shelters saying that if you are caught spitting you will be barred,should be like that everywhere. All I saw was the jet of breath followed by a huge loogie which landed and steamed when it hit the gound. (was quite chilly this morn'.) I have a fairly solid constitution but that made me feel quite queezy.
lazystudent said:
The guy on the motorway who keeps overtaking me, then slowing down, forcing me to overtake him, then coming shooting past, and then slowing down again, over the course of a mile or so. Meanwhile there's me, with cruise control set and not changing my speed. Really highlights the knob factor, cruise control does!
Absolute knobbety knob knob.Used to be faced with these tools on a weekly 250mile drive, had one women do it for about 50 miles.
There is only so much i can take, 4th gear blast off and make some distance between me and said knob.
k15tox said:
lazystudent said:
The guy on the motorway who keeps overtaking me, then slowing down, forcing me to overtake him, then coming shooting past, and then slowing down again, over the course of a mile or so. Meanwhile there's me, with cruise control set and not changing my speed. Really highlights the knob factor, cruise control does!
Absolute knobbety knob knob.Used to be faced with these tools on a weekly 250mile drive, had one women do it for about 50 miles.
There is only so much i can take, 4th gear blast off and make some distance between me and said knob.
rohrl said:
He's probably just driving a car without cruise control, letting his speed build on the downhills and bleeding a bit of speed off on the uphills and saving some petrol into the bargain. While you're driving at constant speed he's driving closer to constant engine load. It might be annoying to you but it's not completely inexplicable and the other driver isn't necessarily a knob.
Yes he is.Its not hard to realise that you have been playing cat and mouse with a car for the last 50 miles.
Why so hard to keep one speed on a motorway? I can certainly manage without CC.
Because they dont actually know whats going on around them and dont notice the drop in speed, Looking forward....Zombie mode online.
The KJ/Lycra-Clad Pk yesterday who decided it was preferable to turn left into a tight junction and wander head-on towards me while shouting to his mate behind rather than watching where he was going.
Do people like this reckon that because they dress up as though in the Tour-De-France (looking like to55ers in the process) they are invincible?
I fing respect you as a road user, so a little reciprocating motion wouldn't go amiss. 
k yesterday who decided it was preferable to turn left into a tight junction and wander head-on towards me while shouting to his mate behind rather than watching where he was going. Do people like this reckon that because they dress up as though in the Tour-De-France (looking like to55ers in the process) they are invincible?
I f
ing respect you as a road user, so a little reciprocating motion wouldn't go amiss. rohrl said:
He's probably just driving a car without cruise control, letting his speed build on the downhills and bleeding a bit of speed off on the uphills and saving some petrol into the bargain. While you're driving at constant speed he's driving closer to constant engine load. It might be annoying to you but it's not completely inexplicable and the other driver isn't necessarily a knob.
If only. These people are "sticky". They travel at the same speed as whatever car they are near. So they pass you and something in their head says "whoa there, you passed him so slow down", then once behind they seem to go "keep up damnit" and come whipping past again.They are also the people who when catching something in the same lane, their 1st option is to slow rather than move to a lane on the right and pass the vehicle while maintaining their desired speed.
k15tox said:
Yes he is.
Its not hard to realise that you have been playing cat and mouse with a car for the last 50 miles.
Why so hard to keep one speed on a motorway? I can certainly manage without CC.
Because they dont actually know whats going on around them and dont notice the drop in speed, Looking forward....Zombie mode online.
You assume that the other driver intends to stick at the same speed on the motorway and that rigidly sticking to a single speed on the motorway is a good thing in and of itself.Its not hard to realise that you have been playing cat and mouse with a car for the last 50 miles.
Why so hard to keep one speed on a motorway? I can certainly manage without CC.
Because they dont actually know whats going on around them and dont notice the drop in speed, Looking forward....Zombie mode online.
I'm saying that maybe the other driver is intentionally varying their speed between say 80mph downhill and 65mph uphill in order to save petrol.
Not everyone who drives in a different manner to you is an idiot. Some people will drive at 55mph on the motorway, others 140mph. They all have their reasons which may not have been disclosed to you.
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