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[waspy]

A follow on from my "Middle Lane" thread.

Why do drivers sit at forty/fifty on A & B roads & flash their lights at you when you overtake them :-/

I came up behind a few today on the A65 that where dawdling, if they don't like being overtaken, drive faster

I did notice Trilbies in the back window

[Kevin Wood]

They really love being overtaken by a Westfield with a side-exit exhaust doing 7K RPM.

Kevin

[waspy]

They really love being overtaken by a Westfield with a side-exit exhaust doing 7K RPM.

Kevin

 

Yeah, i used to overtake them in my Trans Am with straight through exhausts

[tidla]

same for both threads really.

lazy and incompetent.

[aaronjb]

Again - missiles.

[waspy]

Again - missiles.

 

[bluey]

Some flash the main beam out of indignation, some do it to tell you it is safe to pull back in - copying HGV drivers.

[aaronjb]

Something that annoys me more than people who do a steady 40 or 50 are the people who do 40 and then slow down to 20 every time there's an oncoming car, as soon as it's dark enough to require headlights (so dusk onwards)..

I'm all for driving within the distance you can see, but if everyone did that we'd all just stop opposite the first car with it's lights on that we saw 

Ban 'em all.

[feeutfo]

That was absalutely my favourite game on my zx6, down a gear over take with a big hand full of throttle, then snap the throttle shut about level with the window and roll past on the over run....CABOOM with a big blue flash out the exhaust, faaaantastic. I even set the mirror on the rear pipe so I could watch at night 


Cirtainly saw the odd blue rinse wobble 

Clearly no idea of what's behind them, not just me but a bloody great queue of traffic 

[feeutfo]

Something that annoys me more than people who do a steady 40 or 50 are the people who do 40 and then slow down to 20 every time there's an oncoming car, as soon as it's dark enough to require headlights (so dusk onwards)..

I'm all for driving within the distance you can see, but if everyone did that we'd all just stop opposite the first car with it's lights on that we saw 

Ban 'em all.

Indeed, they simply can not see.

[aaronjb]

That was absalutely my favourite game on my zx6, down a gear over take with a big hand full of throttle, then snap the throttle shut about level with the window and roll past on the over run....CABOOM with a big blue flash put the exhaust, faaaantastic. I even set the mirror on the rear pipe so I could watch at night 


Cirtainly saw the odd blue rinse wobble 

Clearly no idea of what's behind them, not just me but a bloody great queue of traffic 

Ah you can't beat setting fire to the front wing of whatever you just overtook..

[feeutfo]

Pete, start a thread on lorry drivers darting out into lane 2 at absolutely and deliberately the worst time for no reason what so ever (except another lorry 100 yards ahead which will take them 3 weeks to catch up never mind overtake) 

[Auto Addict]

The thing that annoys me is, when it's dark, drivers who park on the wrong side of the road and leave their headlights on, shining into the centre of the road, making it difficult sometimes to see past their car.

[Amigo]

They really love being overtaken by a Westfield with a side-exit exhaust doing 7K RPM.

Kevin

Yup. The Breastie's rather loud when on song, no faster i know just louder when she's in uncouth mode.
   If i saw the Westie in my mirror i'd back off & open the window so i could hear it properly!!! 8-)   

[waspy]

Pete, start a thread on lorry drivers darting out into lane 2 at absolutely and deliberately the worst time for no reason what so ever (except another lorry 100 yards ahead which will take them 3 weeks to catch up never mind overtake) 

The problem is with the "limiters" not the drivers.
You'll find one going 1mph faster than the other other approach to a hill & he'll need the extra momentum to get up the hill.