One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 5
Discussion
Sebbak said:
People unable to stick to a lane, especially on roundabouts; drivers that straight-line a '2 on 2 off' roundabout by starting in lane 1, drifting across into lane 2 on the roundabout and then back out to lane 1 drive me bonkers. It's even worse on smaller roundabouts when the vehicle on the left doesn't move across and robs you of all space on the inside of the roundabout. Peak knobbery.
This. Roundabouts these days seem to be designed to encourage this. With older roundabouts the lanes approaching the roundabout would have lane 1 aligned towards lane 1 on the roundabout, same with lane 2. With new roundabouts though, lane 1 is aligned with lane 2 and lane 2 points towards the central island. This geometry is supposedly meant to slow approaching traffic but it doesn’t - it jus encourages straight lining across lanes.donkmeister said:
swisstoni said:
The people who just cannot deal with cyclists.
Its as if they encounter one and think,
“Oh well, that’s me done. I’m going to have to stay behind this cyclist for the day. There’s no alternative”.
Generally they panic and eventually overtake at the worst possible moment.Its as if they encounter one and think,
“Oh well, that’s me done. I’m going to have to stay behind this cyclist for the day. There’s no alternative”.
As I rode into the pub car park he was there, only just getting out of his car. He had a ginger beard and looked like a t
t which I suppose explains the behaviour. I'm not a cyclist, but I assume that cyclists would much prefer the car to overtake rather than sit behind for mile after mile? Near me, the old duffers won't overtake because of double white lines or something. You'd think they were manoeuvring around a double decker bus not a solitary cyclist!
This thread is probably the best place to post yesterday's happenings even though "knob" doesn't even come close.
M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
Deranged Rover said:
This thread is probably the best place to post yesterday's happenings even though "knob" doesn't even come close.
M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
I was travelling from Dover up north during the afternoon and shortly after joining the M40 around 5pm there was a tuned R33 Skyline doing this same insane behaviour weaving between all lanes at 90+. There was an event on at Brands Hatch so I assume they were heading from there. I saw quite a few performance JDM cars in that general area. M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
Deranged Rover said:
This thread is probably the best place to post yesterday's happenings even though "knob" doesn't even come close.
M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
That sort of driving certainly seemed quite common on the M40 inside the M25 when I used to be there more regularly than now. A constant surprise that you don't find them off the road/in the back of a truck just ahead..M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
mac96 said:
Deranged Rover said:
This thread is probably the best place to post yesterday's happenings even though "knob" doesn't even come close.
M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
That sort of driving certainly seemed quite common on the M40 inside the M25 when I used to be there more regularly than now. A constant surprise that you don't find them off the road/in the back of a truck just ahead..M40 southbound, just south of Warwick services - traffic is reasonably heavy but we're all going along at 70-80 quite happily, when a silver Audi A6 estate and a white Audi A3 suddenly appear. Now I don't know if they were racing, if one was chasing the other or there was some sort of serious road rage going on, but they were weaving in an out of the traffic across all lanes as they came racing past us all - they nearly hit two people that I saw and, as they thundered off into the distance I saw the silver estate pass two lorries in Lane 1 by overtaking them using the hard shoulder.
I surprised myself by hoping that I'd see at least one of them wrapped around something concrete in due course - I've genuinely never seen anything like it before.
The silver estate had a distinctive numberplate but I was so shocked I didn't get a chance to take a photo or make a note of it, otherwise I would have reported him.
They simply couldn't care less about anyone else, the only thing that matters to them is the illusion of their self-imposed "gangster" status, that they can do what they like and have no fear of the law as they consider themselves above the law. As such, everyone else may as well be invisible on the roads, they certainly don't care about you or your family on the motorway hence the stupid and dangerous manoeuvres they repeatedly pull.
They are absolute scum, bacteria life forms. Never has a sense of self importance ever been so far misplaced from reality.
stogbandard said:
Sebbak said:
People unable to stick to a lane, especially on roundabouts; drivers that straight-line a '2 on 2 off' roundabout by starting in lane 1, drifting across into lane 2 on the roundabout and then back out to lane 1 drive me bonkers. It's even worse on smaller roundabouts when the vehicle on the left doesn't move across and robs you of all space on the inside of the roundabout. Peak knobbery.
This. Roundabouts these days seem to be designed to encourage this. With older roundabouts the lanes approaching the roundabout would have lane 1 aligned towards lane 1 on the roundabout, same with lane 2. With new roundabouts though, lane 1 is aligned with lane 2 and lane 2 points towards the central island. This geometry is supposedly meant to slow approaching traffic but it doesn’t - it jus encourages straight lining across lanes.Even with the dotted lines directing people to correctly move out a lane as they pass an exit, you still get idiots who ignore everything and just cut across every lane as they circumnavigate the junction.
There’s a roundabout over a motorway near me who’s lanes are just a mess in places.
So you enter the from the bottom of the picture and the leftmost 2 lanes go off to the motorway; that sort of works.
The remaining lanes going forward, but ‘over’ lane makings meant for traffic already on the roundabout.
So you can proceed on to the roundabout, carefully trying to stay in your lane only to encounter lane lines that cut across your lane. They are all the same colour and a bit faded.
It would be quite possible to run someone off the road thinking you were following ‘your’ lane, but actually veering across them.
It’s confusing from overhead. At ground level it is useless.
So you enter the from the bottom of the picture and the leftmost 2 lanes go off to the motorway; that sort of works.
The remaining lanes going forward, but ‘over’ lane makings meant for traffic already on the roundabout.
So you can proceed on to the roundabout, carefully trying to stay in your lane only to encounter lane lines that cut across your lane. They are all the same colour and a bit faded.
It would be quite possible to run someone off the road thinking you were following ‘your’ lane, but actually veering across them.
It’s confusing from overhead. At ground level it is useless.
What annoys me even more than the bad lines is the regular user who has now figured it out and drives like a bat out of hell to try and cause conflict. The rest of us are thinking "yes, this is a bit confusing and that guy a little way ahead clearly thinks he's in the right lane to take the same exit as me", whereas the Muppets are thinking "Ooooh, I'll cause a near miss, send the footage to Ashley Neil and then he'll be my friend!!!"
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