Grr! Rude Twot on SV Thou

[New Leaf]

Thought i'd tell u about the rude twot i encountered on my way home from London the other day.

I was halfway up the M11 - somewhere around Stanstead i think - and the traffic had slowed right down to about 10mph. I was filtering between lanes 2 and 3 at about 30mph - which to be honest is fast enough for me when i'm tired after a day at work and all the knobs in cages are swapping lanes every 100 yards for no apparent reason.

Anyway after a while i hear the sound of a large twin with very illegal cans behind me. A quick check of the mirror confirms this - there is some dude on an SV1000s right on my tail. So i stick to my 30mph and after about half a mile (and certainly no more than 2 mins after this guy appeared behind me) i spot a gap behind a lorry and move in to let Mr Sv1000s past.

As he goes past, i move back on to the white line and look up expecting to see a friendly wave of thanks. Instead i get a :toss: . What a rude twot!!

I hope it was nobody on here?!?

[kwak zzr]

not guilty i wasnt in london.:)

[Flamin_Squirrel]

There's probably someone posting on the SV1000 forum about some idiot who kept him waiting for miles before he pulled over :p

[M1TCH]

After sitting in loads of traffic on the M11 & M25 but never been at the front of the cue, what happens when you get to the accident at the front of all the traffic, do the police let the bikes through or do you have to sit and wait like us in cars?

I was sat in the traffic on thursday just before Stansted, was well annoying because we come off there for the A120 but people were going down the slip road to try get further up, resulting in a full slip road. gheys.

[arenalife]

I did an 11 mile filter, catching up with a police car which made for a nice wide path to follow! When I got to the accident at the road closure, a friendly copper pointed around the edge of the road and indicated I should go through, brilliant.

I came to the head of a queue once to find an accident with body parts all over the road and gutters running with blood, the policeman screamed at me and I turned round and rode home another way feeling very pale. Turns out is was an abattoir lorry, human fatalities too though unfortunately :(

[socommk23]

Thought i'd tell u about the rude twot i encountered on my way home from London the other day.

I was halfway up the M11 - somewhere around Stanstead i think - and the traffic had slowed right down to about 10mph. I was filtering between lanes 2 and 3 at about 30mph - which to be honest is fast enough for me when i'm tired after a day at work and all the knobs in cages are swapping lanes every 100 yards for no apparent reason.

Anyway after a while i hear the sound of a large twin with very illegal cans behind me. A quick check of the mirror confirms this - there is some dude on an SV1000s right on my tail. So i stick to my 30mph and after about half a mile (and certainly no more than 2 mins after this guy appeared behind me) i spot a gap behind a lorry and move in to let Mr Sv1000s past.

As he goes past, i move back on to the white line and look up expecting to see a friendly wave of thanks. Instead i get a :toss: . What a rude twot!!

I hope it was nobody on here?!?

i wouldnt have been so impolite but i have to say it is annoying when i get kept behind a slower bike while filtering or in a lane.

if anything comes up behind me fast i always move over....and id like it if others would do the same for me.

as for the illigal cans.....so what....most people here are using them now!

[lynw]

After sitting in loads of traffic on the M11 & M25 but never been at the front of the cue, what happens when you get to the accident at the front of all the traffic, do the police let the bikes through or do you have to sit and wait like us in cars?

I was sat in the traffic on thursday just before Stansted, was well annoying because we come off there for the A120 but people were going down the slip road to try get further up, resulting in a full slip road. gheys.

Basically its great. The police clear the road, all the bikes go hammering off down the motorway which is effectively empty until at least the next junction as no traffics gone down the road for a fair while. Just like a track day ;) :p :smt003

Its happened to me couple times, always on the M1 for some reason. Remember filtering and getting strange looks from people wandering about like they cant quite comprehend because theyre stuck not everyone else on the motorway is. Tbh, when traffics stationary thats usually the most dangerous time for filtering as doors opening, people wandering about are suddenly real hazzards.

Anyhows, got to the front and parked up with other bikers. This was serious enough to warrant air ambulance on the motorway, so was lid off and chatting away job for about half hour. Then a panicking policeman saying we'd have to move the bikes back cos the downdraft from the helicopter would blow them over where they were. So a move backwards, lid on, then open motorway for 10 min. :smt003

[AlanSv]

not guilty, I don't use the M11

[Samnooshka]

I got to the front of an accident on the A3... waited had a chat with some bikers then the police opened the road.... but couldn't zoom off as they lead the traffic for a couple of miles first :-x

As for filtering... when someone is filtering faster behind me i try and move in when i find a safe place to do so... just diving into any gap can be dangerous and the person behond me will have to wait until i find a gap big enough to park my a*se in for them to go past.

Don't worry about the sv1000 i think no matter how quick you pulled out the way you would have got the same reaction... some people are just ****s full stop.

[Tiger 55]

a panicking policeman saying we'd have to move the bikes back cos the downdraft from the helicopter would blow them over where they were.
So when the helicopter arrived, did it land in the small gap between the parked traffic and the accident or the huge gap between the accident and the empty motorway?

[carlos]

what happens when you get to the accident at the front of all the traffic, do the police let the bikes through or do you have to sit and wait like us in cars?


My only experiences of filtering through motorway queues has been on the opposite carriageway to the accident - b*****d rubber-neckers:smt093

[MattGriff]

On the subject on twots filtering, what the hell is it with the Chavistorcasy on their ‘race canned’ 50cc twist and go’s!
Filtering to the end of a duel carriageway which ends in a nice big fat island to the M6 in Brum, I am pootling through at about 35ish, not as rooms as a motorway so it was plenty fast for me, plus a hot spot for the friendly west mids plod to be lying in wait overlooking the motorway.
Three L plated twist and go’s shot up behind me at what I guess must be their maximum speed, one without a lid (kn0b!) and carrying a pillion on L plates.
I am not, nor could not be moving at that point, there are no gaps in the traffic to pull in, and I’m near enough the front anyway (about 4 cars back maybe). I reach the front, and next thing you know a car is honking at what I first thought was me.
Preparing to give a sign resembling ‘come and get my bow fingers’ I flicked my head around just in time to see the last of the twisters cutting in front of this chap. Uttering a string of words worthy of Alf Garnet under my lid I turned back to the traffic, lights just changed and a whole row of bank holiday traffic from the M6 coming our way. Sit and wait time! Unless apparently you are on a scooter.
I appreciate they are ‘renown’ for their GSX-R 1K dominating acceleration all the way up to 10mph but still, this was a 50 roundabout, and these cars were coming as you would expect, around and above that speed.
So the kn0Bs pull out, engines struggling and screaming through their equivalent of an Akrapovic race system and undoubtedly a litre or two of ‘Octane booster’ in their tanks.
First car coming, some middle aged mumsy in a Ford Galaxy (the one named for being as large as a!). She is forced to slam on the breaks, her tail end clearly wanting to ‘shake that booty’ as I thought it was going to overtake the front before she managed to wrestle the best under control. To which, much as the first post in this thread stated. The said Chavistoricary, the Lidless one, wearing proud his IQ reducer upon his head signifies to her that he can in fact count as high as 1.
Cheeky little ****

The L plate riding! Hmm, I just don’t think a CBT and a theory test are enough to qualify for it. They should at least do some sort of course on how to be safe on a road, or be banned from advanced manoeuvres such as filtering.
Still, what would it help, its not like they were riding following the rules anyway!

[ASM-Forever]

I have just come to accept that a scooter with 'l-plates' usually means horrendous riding/no road sense. I rode on l-plates for a while when i was young but i had a grasp of the highway code and a respect for other road users.

Its bad enough when they put themselves in danger, but putting others in trouble is another story......perhaps the Galaxy would have been better off accelerating?

[Stig]

Anyhows, got to the front and parked up with other bikers. This was serious enough to warrant air ambulance on the motorway, so was lid off and chatting away job for about half hour.

That wasn't on the M25/M40 slip road was it :?: Sorry about that if it was. :lol:

[MattGriff]

Its bad enough when they put themselves in danger, but putting others in trouble is another story......perhaps the Galaxy would have been better off accelerating?

Ha ha, yeah prehaps so. At least they would learn the hard way, scooter or bike vs large tonnage of metal thats already got a shifty on = 2nd place

[Baph]

large tonnage of metal thats already got a shifty on
I drive a Ford Galaxy (when I have to drive the car). Large & weighted yes. But if the driver of the galaxy you saw almost had the front overtaken by the rear, they need to work on their observations too.

Much easier to spin a smaller vehicle (as I've proven many a time) than it is the galaxy. I have only once spun the galaxy, and that was with the aid of the hand brake, on grass.

But for a large car, they do shift. It just seems unnatural to me that I have to change gear at around 4k rpm.