There are two types of drivers

What i like when im driving is people driving up my ass and think this **** in a mazda and is in my way so after a few miles of them tail gating me i just blip my throttle and wave goodbye

i love my mazda 3 mps aero

I used to *race up the motorway every day from Northampton to Brum.
It always took me about an *hour or so due to traffic.
One evening on the way home, I was tired and just couldnt be bothered with it all so I stuck the cruise control onto 70 and just pootled along.
The difference in time was about *10 mins or so.
I tried it a few more times and noticed that all the cars screaming past are having to slow down for the next car in front and then booting it away again.
More often than not, the knob jockey that was tail gating me was only 3-4 cars in front of me queing to get into brum further down the road.
Now (in the car) I tend to sit at the speed limit where and when conditions allow and have a more economical and more relaxed drive.
Yes I am getting old and sounding boring but I'm also near doubling my economy over a year and am now less wound up when I get to where I'm going.
I dont drive for fun anyway as I do too many miles in a car to enjoy it.
My car is just a tool for work, the bikes are for fun


*all within the legal limit for licence saving reasons....

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Originally Posted by Stu

If you're on a bike and holding up a car, you should be run over.

I love doing that in 30's, I sit at just over the limit 32 or 33 and let the B's push you along the road through towns and villages and wait for the unlimited sign (sorry national speed limit sign) and gun it away waving to them. childish but hellishly good fun

if people drive up your ass on the motorway I like to vary my speed just 5 10 miles an hour does it, then gently push on the brake peddal just enough to light the brake lights and excellerate away from the idiot who's now braking, probably dangerous but it stops them sitting so close to you.

and not very IAM

More often than not on my commute to work I find myself travelling on the inside lane doing 70mph and undertaking all the traffic in the other two lanes. I just find it incredible that every single vehicle in the other two lanes will not pull in because they believe they will be going faster than the vehicle in front if only they could get passed it.

This also got me to wondering if I am running the risk of being prosectuted for undertaking when the inside lane I am in, is clear in front of me for the best part of a half mile or more. I'm not speeding and the lane in front is clear.

Originally Posted by speedplay

I used to *race up the motorway every day from Northampton to Brum.
It always took me about an *hour or so due to traffic.
One evening on the way home, I was tired and just couldnt be bothered with it all so I stuck the cruise control onto 70 and just pootled along.
The difference in time was about *10 mins or so.
I tried it a few more times and noticed that all the cars screaming past are having to slow down for the next car in front and then booting it away again.
More often than not, the knob jockey that was tail gating me was only 3-4 cars in front of me queing to get into brum further down the road.
Now (in the car) I tend to sit at the speed limit where and when conditions allow and have a more economical and more relaxed drive.
Yes I am getting old and sounding boring but I'm also near doubling my economy over a year and am now less wound up when I get to where I'm going.
I dont drive for fun anyway as I do too many miles in a car to enjoy it.
My car is just a tool for work, the bikes are for fun


*all within the legal limit for licence saving reasons....

I have noticed that you don't actually save much time at all when booting it along during the day, however personally I stay A LOT more alert when I'm driving fast as oppose to just plodding at the speed limit. Driving back from Leamington Spa to Lowestoft on a sunday night at about 10pm, there was no other choice in my mind but to drive flat out almost the entire way home just to keep me concentrating (until I got caught speeding by an unmarked traffic cop, which should have been a ban but it was EXTREMELY lucky circumstances).

Does seem quieter, I went through Brum on fri afternoon on the M6 and usually get caught in a jam from hilton park down to the M5 but just sailed through at 50 with no hold ups at all, made a nice change tbh.

Originally Posted by stewie

Does seem quieter, I went through Brum on fri afternoon on the M6 and usually get caught in a jam from hilton park down to the M5 but just sailed through at 50 with no hold ups at all, made a nice change tbh.

Thats very lucky, I drive the m6 alot am and pm, the 50mph section is naff every afternoon not so bad at 6:30 on way to work (J6). Due to the traffic joining and leaving the M5, up past the M54 is good. The trick is to stay in the outside lane lol and get gone but i dont own an Audi or BWM so im ok

I see all of this as a good thing for us. As soon as spring comes around, a lot more folks will be willing to switch to the obviously superior mode of transportation - a bike

i still drive at 80 because my car still does 50mpg at 80,

that being said, i still drive at 72 on long journeys to ger 55 mpg

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I boot it up the outside lane at 85+ because my commute is 380miles, I've been up since 04:30 and I want to be home before 20:00.

and yes work do pay for my fuel lol

Some of the comments on here from the poorly informed are amusing though.