Has the madness spread to bikers too?

[davethebunny]

I can't see the problem with holding line and speed. Surely it's easier to join in if the person already there remains a constant. Otherwise you both do the speed up/slow down dance together and end up both doing 30mph at the end of the slip road.

If people generally got up to lane 1 speed, I.e. 60mph down the slip road and then just adjusted to fit in instead of trundling down at 40 expecting L1 to pull over and let them out, this also stops them then swinging all the way across to get around the wagon that pulled into L2 just to let them out, causing a great ripple of braking as they tend to do it at about 65 instead of the 80 the outside lane is doing.

[Jayho]

The real Apache said:

rich_b said:

Parrot of Doom said:

Why are you expecting other road users to "facilitate your joining" when you can just as easily facilitate it by pressing the pedal on the right a bit more, or a bit less?

^ This

plus one

Plus two.

I understand where the OP is coming from, when its a clear road, but at the end of the day, when joining from the slip road it is the joiners responsibility to ensure a safe passage. Not the responsibility of other road users.

I've nearly been crashed into, then got road raged at by a driver expecting me to facilitate him joining the D/C, where I had a car doing a slow overtake to my right and a 2-3 second gap between me and the car in front and the one behind... Lucky for me the drive I could not possibly have let out safely didnt have any empty red bull cans lying about!