coozer
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 09:54 PM |
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Why is it..
that when your blatting about, and in the middle of nowhere you come up behind some duffer going along at 23mph.. you wick past and all you get is him
leaning on the horn and trying to blow his high beam bulbs?
Why is that??????
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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AdrianH
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:04 PM |
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Because you woke them up and they don't like it!
Adrian
Why do I have to make the tools to finish the job? More time then money.
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zilspeed
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:09 PM |
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People really don't like being passed it seems.
Especially if the move you make is outwith their concept of what is possible.
Best just to move out, make it clear the move's happening and give it the full beans.
Nobody can honestly criticse that.
I'm all for overtaking in a defnitive manner.
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tegwin
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:20 PM |
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It's a sorry state of affairs but when I am calculating if I can make an overtake I have to allow for the fact the fool infront will invariably
speed up putting my life at risk. I don't het why people do that. On the odd occasion I am moving slower than the car behind I slow if they try
and pass to help them.
I bet if I had a head on collision causes by some
muppet accelerating it would be me who got done for recless driving!
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Would the last person who leaves the country please switch off the lights and close the door!
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The Venom Project
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:21 PM |
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I seem to finally have a vehicle that out accelerates most things on the road now, I don't have problems with Old Doddery folk anymore :-) Went
past a lot of them today, your right though, blasting the horn.... shaking there fists :-)
It's not that i'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.....
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morcus
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:23 PM |
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Because alot of people do things that make absolutely no sense, especially when it comes to driving. What you should have done is stopped, blocking
him in of course, and gotten out to ask him what he was trying to signal with the horn and lights to see if he could come up with something more
useful than the fact that you'd passed him.
Thats the biggest problem with going out for a drive for fun though, there is always someone doing something stupid to ruin it for you. On my
favourite stretch of road (The long way to my Grand parents house) it's usually Lorries taking a 'Short cut' at less than 30 on a
beautiful stwisty bit of road with a 60 limit and brilliant visability but nowhere wide enough to pass, and barely room to pass a lorry going the
other way in a car.
The only thing that pisses me off more is the knobs that completely ignore changing speed limits so you get stuck behind them, then have them shoot
off when the limit drops, only to catch up with them later. That said it's worse when you start infront of them and look in your mirror to see a
lorry rapidly closing on you when your doing just over the limit or on the motor way where they feel the need to overtake everyone through the road
works.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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ali f27
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:25 PM |
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hi i take the view if he so wound up on a sunday his problem jane says my rear view mirrors are crap shes right but i am not to worried about him
behind only cozzer passing the other guy comming my way
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morcus
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:29 PM |
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Ali, I think you missed some punctuation.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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ali f27
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:31 PM |
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yea could be so this time of night having a couple of sherbets and a chill my excuse
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:44 PM |
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I was out on the bike doing 50 in a 50 limit when a BMW decided I wasn't going fast enough and blasted past me. When he caught up with the
duffer doing 35 and couldn't get past I just carried on at 50 and waved as I went past. The duffers do have their uses
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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RK
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:58 PM |
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It's very odd, but no matter what the speed, people hate being passed. They want to be in front! I don't know why that is, but a
psychologist can come along and explain it to me. I would much rather have people pass me and get on with it, so they can have their accident far
ahead of me than go up my rear end.
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Macbeast
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| posted on 28/5/12 at 12:24 AM |
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I do most of my driving either in heavy town traffic or on the motorway so passing isn't really an issue.
But I've recently started doing some longish trips on 60mph single carriageway roads and have noticed that drivers nowadays just don't
know how to pull out and pass ( or are too scared to ) so you get a long line of cars stuck behind someone doing 55mph and they're so close
together there's no room to pass them one by one and pull in.
Today's drivers are so spoilt by dual carriageways and motorways that they can't make progress on a single carriageway.
I'm addicted to brake fluid, but I can stop anytime.
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 28/5/12 at 12:27 AM |
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It's clearly spreading!
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=151345
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nick205
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| posted on 28/5/12 at 10:09 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coozer
that when your blatting about, and in the middle of nowhere you come up behind some duffer going along at 23mph.. you wick past and all you get is him
leaning on the horn and trying to blow his high beam bulbs?
Why is that??????
You can double the entertainment by pulling in a short way up the road and waiting for said doddering driver to pass you. Then slip back out and
repeat the pass (when safe to do so of course)
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 28/5/12 at 10:24 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coyoteboy
It's clearly spreading!
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=151345
I agree with nick205's philosophy, but I normally give those lovely folk a wag of the finger and a wry smile to chastise them for the erroneous
ways 
The shade of red normally darkens by a factor of 10 They really don't like it up 'em Mr Mannering
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 28/5/12 at 12:02 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
quote:
Originally posted by coyoteboy
It's clearly spreading!
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=151345
I agree with nick205's philosophy, but I normally give those lovely folk a wag of the finger and a wry smile to chastise them for the erroneous
ways
The shade of red normally darkens by a factor of 10 They really don't like it up 'em Mr Mannering
I find a cheery wave and thumbs up leaves them far more confused
I've also noticed some people get very upset if they can even see you make overtake whilst they are oncoming, never mind that there is massive
amount of distance to safely perform the overtake.
My favorite incident happened some years ago whilst I was on my way to work to find two cars that were apparently quite content to follow a slow
moving lorry. At the first opportunity I overtook the first car and then pulled back in. I noticed the woman driving the Escort in front of me was
absolutely fixated on watching me in her mirror as I dropped back a little and waited for the next overtaking opportunity. Mrs Escort continued to
stare into her mirror up to the point that she literally veered into the hedge kicking up mounds of dirt and making the whole car jump up, swiftly
followed by a violent lurch into oncoming traffic and then a last second swerve back into her own lane. The best bit is that she decided this was
somehow my fault and started ranting and shaking her fist at me!
[Edited on 28/5/12 by MikeRJ]
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