Traffic light Grand Prix nonsense

[rainmakerraw]

I didn't realise this thread was still going - I posted it yonks ago.

cb1965 said:

What's the matter with you? Nail it good and proper and then you won't see them again to have them complain!

I realise you're being funny but for the avoidance of doubt, as I said in the OP,

rainmakerraw said:

I had sleeping babies on board.

otherwise yes, they wouldn't have seen which way I went (or whichever other PH meme you deem appropriate). Since I posted the thread I've changed vehicle from the 2.0 TSI Superb to a similarly specced BMW X2 Sport 20i XDrive. People seem much better behaved around me now I'm not in the big Skoda. I have wondered whether it's the fact that in the rear view mirror I look like all the other black BMW SUV/CUV whatsits with big blokes inside who drive around this city... but who happen to also have blue flashy lights hidden in the grille. Either way I'm not complaining lol.

[Narcisus]

rainmakerraw said:

otherwise yes, they wouldn't have seen which way I went (or whichever other PH meme you deem appropriate). Since I posted the thread I've changed vehicle from the 2.0 TSI Superb to a similarly specced BMW X2 Sport 20i XDrive. People seem much better behaved around me now I'm not in the big Skoda. I have wondered whether it's the fact that in the rear view mirror I look like all the other black BMW SUV/CUV whatsits with big blokes inside who drive around this city... but who happen to also have blue flashy lights hidden in the grille. Either way I'm not complaining lol.

Didnt realise you had jumped ship ! Must have missed that one.

[rainmakerraw]

Narcisus said:

Didnt realise you had jumped ship ! Must have missed that one.

Yes mate, the Superb went in April and I took delivery of the BMW last week.

[Narcisus]

rainmakerraw said:

Yes mate, the Superb went in April and I took delivery of the BMW last week.

Nice one don't forget to give us a decent review.... On the other forum !

[Enut]

I don't understand how no one has pointed out the reasoning behind the female driver's reaction. She was driving a BMW and you overtook her, it's as simple as that. We all know that the Highway Code and even Roadcraft don't mention car makes at all but this is an ommission on their part. Every road user knows that BMWs have right of way in every instance and against every over car make, you simply failed to remember this when 'undertaking' in your 'inferior' Skoda.

Luckily you have now seen the light and changed to a BMW, so as well as obviously succeeding in life, becoming more attractive to women and also vastly more intelligent, you are now able to undertake, overtake or simply run off the road any other vehicle.

[Turn7]

The angrier the antagonist is, shows they actually know they are in the wrong, but pride takes over.

[fwaggie]

Just ask the other driver if they got their driving license free in a packet of Corn Flakes.

Makes most of these (already angry) types go apopleptic.

Must be done when you know you have a faster car, and can keep just far enough ahead so you can see the inside of their windscreen getting covered in spittle and the vehicle slightly swerving about as they thump the steering wheel / dashboard.

[GEllisM4]

Was it an M116d? If so, this is the reason why

[Jon39]

If I am driving my sports car (180 mph max supposedly) and happen to be on the front row, inside lane at traffic lights, I make a point of NOT being first away, when the lights change to green. Might spoil the fun, but I try to be courteous.

Ref. comments by Enut.
I think those angry BMW drivers you describe, have now changed to Audis.

Edited by Jon39 on Sunday 19th January 19:36

[Tiggsy]

I sometimes wonder on PH where all these gesticulating drivers are that people encounter???

I have been driving 30 years - 99% of those in a faster than average car, 99% of my trips I am running late and 99% of the time I enjoying whizzing away from lights. As a result, I have been beaten away from lights 8 times in those 30 years (that's a guess....it might be 7) - but I have NEVER had anyone give two hoots!

Am i just not paying attention??? Are the people of Reading more forgiving? Do 99% of my cars have faulty rear view mirrors???

[meatballs]

Tiggsy said:

I sometimes wonder on PH where all these gesticulating drivers are that people encounter???

I have been driving 30 years - 99% of those in a faster than average car, 99% of my trips I am running late and 99% of the time I enjoying whizzing away from lights. As a result, I have been beaten away from lights 8 times in those 30 years (that's a guess....it might be 7) - but I have NEVER had anyone give two hoots!

Am i just not paying attention??? Are the people of Reading more forgiving? Do 99% of my cars have faulty rear view mirrors???

8 times? Hand in your keys that' disgraceful.

I don't really look in people's cabins unless at a junction trying to tell someone's intentions, and if you get away quick enough you wouldn't be able to see

[Tiggsy]

meatballs said:

8 times? Hand in your keys that' disgraceful.

I don't really look in people's cabins unless at a junction trying to tell someone's intentions, and if you get away quick enough you wouldn't be able to see

Twice with an elderly relative, twice crazy low on fuel, twice with a car sick kid, once actually just beaten and once with a hamster on the front seat I'd just picked up for my child's birthday and didn't want to scare it.

[LunarOne]

There's a 60mph dual carriageway (A355 Windsor to M4 J6) not far from me, which has a set of lights about 1/4 of the way to the motorway to allow traffic to join. I used to do this road most mornings on my commute, and nothing is more frustrating than approaching the light at red in position one on an empty lane two, only for Mr. Prius driver (with white earbuds dangling from his ear) waiting in lane 1 to cut me off after deciding that they suddenly prefer empty lane 2. So I, hoping for a quick getaway from the lights followed by reasonably brisk acceleration up to and perhaps beyond the speed limit, instead find myself in the predictable 90-second sprint to 47mph. Because it's a limit, not a target. If I ever found myself at the front of either lane when the lights turn green, I'd be long gone and through the green lights at the eventual M4 junction and onto the M4 long before the other drivers are even half way to the motorway junction. Should they have anything to say about my driving, they are welcome to tell it to their paying passenger in the back seat because I won't be there.

See https://goo.gl/maps/pBoxp6BVvwVszyKQ7

[zygalski]

No one ever dares to challenge the power (or the torque steer) of the GTE at the traffic lights.

[Weekendrebuild]

Regularly happens to me . I take great joy in it now it’s a bit of a sport for me it’s always the same guy in a silver A class, I must meet him at the same lights once a month at least . I have quiet a fair car collection I exercise on Sunday , similar Reg plates so think that’s why he likes to show me his impressive headlight display . He’s a real slow coach 35/40 on the NSL , I let him pass me yesterday then overtook briskly . I think he enjoyed the v10 by the amount of waving I could see .

[Falconer]

I've noticed that in several towns, the lights are timed so that if you do more than 30 between them, you just have to wait anyway, so why hurry?

[Olas]

WaferThinHam said:

You need a newer and faster bike sir. I don't seem to get the hand signals on my L4 GSXR1000. They're too far behind for me to see them.:P

K4 or H4, definitely not L4.

[fwaggie]

Things to ask next time it happens:-

1 Is your handbrake stuck on?
2 (if it's a manual gearbox) Are you aware you have other gears than 1st?
3 (long time favourite) Did you win your driving license in a packet of Corn Flakes?
4 Must have been a long text you were finishing?
5 The green light is at the bottom.

[Turkish91]

Olas said:

WaferThinHam said:

You need a newer and faster bike sir. I don't seem to get the hand signals on my L4 GSXR1000. They're too far behind for me to see them.:P

K4 or H4, definitely not L4.

But it goes K9 for 2009 then L0 for 2010? So an L4 is a 2014? What’s a H4?

[Toltec]

Falconer said:

I've noticed that in several towns, the lights are timed so that if you do more than 30 between them, you just have to wait anyway, so why hurry?

Sounds good, around here if you don't speed you get caught by the next light.