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Post by Havard » Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:00 pm

Standards are pretty awful at the moment. Indicators are left late to keep you guessing, if used at all.

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Post by dr_john » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:37 pm

I thought that the BMW envy/hate thing was confined to Z4's, I experienced it often enough in the 3 E89's that I owned.

Not true, now I have a 4 series Msport and it's just as bad, this very morning someone behind me seemed to think it a good idea to drive just a few inches off my back bumper for half a mile or so at 50mph. Mightily relieved when we took different directions at a roundabout.
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Post by Manfred » Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:35 pm

Not often a white van will out-pace me :thumbsup:
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Post by enzed4 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 5:05 am

1000rr wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:44 pm
Darren Slone wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:27 pm

My favourite thing is following someone in a 60mph zone who's doing 40mph then it goes into a 30mph zone and they're still doing 40 mph :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
This. Coming home tonight after work, following someone doing 25mph in a 50 limit, country road with very few blind corners for 2 miles, turns left into a 30 limit and is doing around 50. :headbang: :headbang:
Gaaaarhgh!!! ^This this this^
Absolutely does my head in when you sit patiently behind someone doing well below the speed limit (for God knows what reason), then get to a speed restricted area and the fecker carries on at the same speed (so from 10 or 20 below the speed limit, to 10 or 20 above the speed limit). Their MPG must be phenomenal... :soapbox:
Or better yet - you follow them for what seems an eternity crawling along city/suburban streets, only to have them run the orange/red at the lights, leaving you stuck there for the next set of changes.. :headbang:
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Post by firebobby » Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:44 pm

The joys of modern day driving :roll:
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Post by Number5 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:51 pm

Let's just rewimd a little here...
Bluecat wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:40 pm Driving down the slip road today to join the A40, look in the mirror theres a white van in the FAST lane but a decent gap before him. Indicate to pull out and he's accelerated hard to stop me pulling out.....
So you are still travelling down the slip road and your primary thought is already to pull across in to the third lane ?

No wonder you pissed him off ! You should be looking to merge in to lane 1 at that stage, then lane 2 perhaps shortly after. If im passing through a junction and I see somebody come down a slip road and immediately across three lanes within the first 200 yards, I'd consider that reckless impatient driving on the basis that driver considers everyone else less important than themselves and lanes 1 & 2 are just for 'other' drivers.

Perhsps he didnt speed up, but that you were not at that stage in the correct position to judge bis speed accurately, purely in your offisde mirror ????

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Post by Crazy Harry » Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:58 pm

Didn't the Op say 'first lane' not 'fast lane'?

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Post by Number5 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:09 pm

Crazy Harry wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:58 pm Didn't the Op say 'first lane' not 'fast lane'?
He did indeed !! - Apologies Bluecat. :oops: I misread that !! (I'll go and fetch my spectacles ! )

But people who do go immediately in to the 3rd lane do piss me off !

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Post by firebobby » Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:44 pm

Number5 wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:09 pm
Crazy Harry wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:58 pm Didn't the Op say 'first lane' not 'fast lane'?
He did indeed !! - Apologies Bluecat. :oops: I misread that !! (I'll go and fetch my spectacles ! )

But people who do go immediately in to the 3rd lane do piss me off !
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Post by Number5 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:52 pm

firebobby wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:44 pm Blind git :poke:
Who's Blonde ?

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Post by Stuartt » Sun Jul 23, 2017 12:22 am

Number5 wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:52 pm
firebobby wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:44 pm Blind git :poke:
Who's Blonde ?
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Post by domsz4 » Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:57 am

Dont get me started... Get up to speed of the rd your joining ffs.

It's also the peeps who don't bother looking as the come down the slip and then seem shocked when they get to the bottom and is got someone in it
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Post by Zed Five » Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:28 am

People who stop at roundabouts and THEN look.

My favourite expletive when on bike or in car... a n t i c i p a t e. :x
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Post by Bluecat » Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:14 am

Reply to Doms, I was doing 45 if you read the second
post ffs :headbang:

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