Is overtaking banned now?

I was only coming back from the shops in the car, you see, when I came
up behind a bus with a car behind it. The car driver obviously wasn't
going to make the move, as he was hanging well back and just ambling
behind the bus - so when an opportunity occurred, I popped past him
without dropping a gear and slotted in between car and bus. Never even
broke the speed limit, plenty of space, all in third gear from 30 to 50
and back to 30. No brakes required.

All of a sudden, my mirrors were full of furious black Astra - right on
the back bumper, weaving around, making little runs along the white
line as if to overtake. Involuntary eyebrow raising took place and as
we went round a bend I had a look up the inside of the bus, had second
gear and fucked off. The Astra didn't choose to follow, despite there
being ample space and opportunity - he settled back in behind what must
have been his adopted bus. Baffled, I was.

In a couple of miles there's a short dual carriageway punctuated by
four roundabouts. Popped past a couple of 45mph punters on the first
stretch, did a truck up the inside on the roundabout, another couple of
cars, then had to brake for an Astra van who took the outside lane on
the next roundabout as he was lining a truck up. No problem, Astra
vans aren't the fastest thing on four wheels and he could see a chance
to get round the truck before the single carriageway section coming up.

Almost as soon as he'd passed the truck, Astra van man obviously
spotted me in his mirror and with a bit of a twitch, slid into the
inside lane and I squeezed it past him. 100m ahead there was a bright
blue Peugeot 307, a little hatchy thing. In the outside lane. I was
up to about 70 by then, still accelerating lazily in fourth gear, clear
of the van in the inside lane. The 307 was doing ... ooh, 45 I guess,
so I was catching it quite quickly. I eased off so I wouldn't startle
the driver and continued to catch the 307 at a fair rate.

At 25m behind the 307 it was still sitting in the outside lane and the
next roundabout was 300m away, with a van just approaching it. As any
sensible driver would, I slipped into the inside lane and squirted up
the inside of the 307 with a speed differential of about 25mph to start
with and 40mph as I passed its nose. Slow enough to stand on the
anchors and miss it if the driver twitched across, accelerating hard
enough to minimise exposure time once committed - just like I do on the
bike.

The 307 driver went fucking apey. I thought it might be Nige, for a
second. Horn blared, headlights flashed, arm came out of the window to
shake a fist at me. I have to confess. I laughed in the mirror, I
couldn't help it. I was crossing into the outside lane by then, 50m
clear of the 307, aiming to take the van up the inside on the
roundabout.

I had to slow down though, as I was morbidly fascinated by the driver
of the 307. He obviously floored it and hammered into the roundabout,
so I didn't lose sight of him for long and he came off the roundabout
in a fearsome tail slide with a puff of blue smoke from the inside
front tyre all the while travelling at a really lairy angle. I'd
passed the van but stayed outside watching and accelerating, wondering
if I could tempt him to undertake me. He was going down the white line
when I heard the gearchange grind and the car jumped to the right and
slowed down. Then he revved it again and accelerated again.

I'd seen enough. He could have been an axe murderer, with a chainsaw
in the footwell. He obviously had an issue with SOVectras undertaking
him when he was in the wrong lane, and I'd tripped his switch. I
flipped him a sympathetic finger in the mirror and then just in case he
mistook my sympathy, extended my arm back between the seats in the
direction of the back window and repeated the gesture, whilst flooring
the loud pedal and lining up the last roundabout and the next van.

I slipped past the van on the roundabout and then as the road became
single carriageway again, saw the 307 come off the roundabout again at
a hellishly lairy angle with blue puffy accents, but manage to brake
before he hit the van or rammed the eight-wheeler coming the other way.
I didn't see the 307 driver again, I hope he made it back to his
therapy session.

I'm just dumbfounded. I wasn't trying hard, I wasn't on a mission, FFS
I wasn't even on a bike. All I did was overtake one and undertake
another. The first could have passed the bus any time he wanted, but
obviously didn't want me in /his/ space. The second didn't like being
undertaken, but he laid himself open to it by sitting in the wrong
lane. This is so common now that I habitually undertake them, in car
or on bike, and I see more and more drivers doing the same. Don't see
many go for the burst blood vessel mind, that was amusing.

**** 'em, **** 'em all.

 

On 12/08/2010 20:55, SIRPip wrote:

<snipped, cos he scares me>

No, i would do exactly the same & do every fucking day. I undertake all
day long, bike or car, cos they drive like cunts.

jc28-25 of the M1 is now 4 lanes, but it's worse than before, no-****
moves over & that makes it more narrow than before.

I just go right around em avery time, either fucking way, full chat on
the bike, very sedate in the car.

CUNTS.

 

Yeah, I remember that and I can see it happening to me. I overtake
other vehicles for all sorts of reasons - they're too slow, they fail
the adequate driver test (never look in the mirror, indicate badly or
not at all on a roundabout, wander about in the road, appear to be
oblivious to the outside world, that sort of thing), they look as if
they're about to carash and I'd rather they did it behind me, I'm bored
with them - that sort of thing - and I'm not about to stop now, just
because other drivers disapprove of me.

We've doen the flashing thing before, but is surely is on the increase.
FFS: if somebody is coming down my side of the road towards me and they
can't get in without headonning me (made that one up) then I'll make
space for them in a big hurry and hopefully without useless Eustace
behind me ramming my boot. What I wont do is dazzle them with main
beam, 'cos that really doesn't help their perception of how they're
going to get out of the situation they've put themselves in, even with
my help. As for flashing my mirror when I've overtaken them, well that
happens regular like, but his guy was really on a big one.

Bikes, yeah, there's a lot more awareness on the open A roads - but not
so much on the motorways and certainly no quarter in towns round here.

 

Oh **** me aye, on the way down to the coast monday morning, we got
stuck behind a fucking 30mph truck on a major A road, in front of him
was some old **** in a Honda.

I found a decent bit of space to overtake, i let the truck driver know i
was gonna go for it to give him a chance to go first & as he put his
left indicator on, i gunned it.

Half way past the lorry, i saw a car coming towards in the distance &
decided to pull back inbetween the truck & old ****, no brakes, no drama.

After at least 8 seconds the oncoming car had all headlights ablaze &
all the cunts inside screaming & flicking V's?

I then pulled back out to make the perfectly safe overtake i had begun.

What a fucking bunch of window licking scumtards in the oncoming car..

It's getting worse out there, cunts are watching shit like 'police
camera action' with that fucking welsh fucktrout 'gaythorn james' or
whatever the fucking stupid rarebit eating dribble of bumcustard is called.

 

It's like that here on the newly widened section past Luton. Might as
well be dual carriageway with L1 full of trucks.

Good man.

Indeed.

 

Ha! as if...

Seriously, they are a fucking menace, but i bet motorways filth &
copsponge shows wont do **** all about it.

 

SIRPip wrote:

Unlikely. Axe murders tend to stick with what they know, IME.

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Axes, so easy to use, little margin for error, chainsaws....well, i wont
go there...

 

Plus, there's the joy of physical effort.

Probably just as well.

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Oh, yes, they fucking are. If they aren't yours.

 

"Dribble of bumcustard". Oscar, where are you when we needed you?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip

Deal with it. There are huge numbers of "drivers" out there with no
ability to judge speed, distance or width with any accuracy *at all*.

I would make it a compulsory part of the driving test to pass between
two concrete blocks set (a generous) three feet wider than the test
vehicle, at a minimum speed of 60MPH.

Can't / won't do it? Buses for you.

 

Ding. No option about sedate in the car, I've got a Alhambra 1.9 diesel now.

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SIRPip wrote:

heh, there are some cunts out there. I must admit if i get some ****
like that on a single carraigeway Ill slow down and down to the limit
and give a few disapproving stares in the mirror, if that doesn't work
or if he's really fucking being a **** and the word Darwin crosses my
mind I'll happily slam on the anchors on the fucker, usually puts the
shits up them, even then I've had to reverse at one or two that don't
know when to give up. [1] Not had an impact yet.

1. I tend to make sure theres no good witness on this maneuvre and have
the story of a yoof that ran out in front of me who proceded to ****
off mind.

 

Same over here. It drives me up the bloody wall when you get numpties sitting
in outside lanes when there's perfectly good space in the inside lane and
they're not using it. Lane discipline is very much lacking in a good percentage
of French drivers.

My other pet hate is incorrect use of lanes on big roundabouts. e.g. Sitting
on the inside lane to turn left (right for you lot) or better still, sitting
in the outside lane to turn right (left for you lot). I prefer the Place
d'Etoile because at least you know you have to give way to the right and in
any case, you need to keep your eyes all over the place to avoid mishaps.

 

I don't think that's the issue though. It's just amazing that people get so
stressed out when someone else makes a perfectly legal and safe move which
"inteferes" with them. I don't understand people that go nuts either. I don't
see the point.

Piece of piss on the bike, eh? I think you'd need to reduce that to one foot
for two wheelers.

 

Snipped to shut the ginger **** up

Yeah

I get it all the time - crips just sitting in the outside lane of urban
dual carriageways to stop you overtaking them, who then try and run you
off the road for overtaking them in the inside lane while keeping to the
speed limit

 

No, you're getting confused

they were jut a bunch of peeps who recognised you and thought

"Hey it's that twat Nige, lets give him some victory" or however they
say it oop north

 

I'm not sure I like the thought of random drivers opening their vents
at me. Better that than the venemous spike, I suppose.

 

should we have a sweepstake on his vice? Stewart was a drunken driving
recidivist.

Of course, he's probably a very nice man and you're only jealous because
he's knobbing Katherine Jenkins. The straight ****.