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Originally Posted by Al_Sweetman
If you have to break the speed limit to overtake, why do you have to overtake?
However.... which is safer?
If matey is doing 55, or a lorry is doing 50, in a NSL, then most drivers will either do one of two things (IMHO)
1). Break the speedlimit and overtake
2). Sit right up the *rse of the car and try to intimidate it into going faster, at the speed the driver behind wants to go.
So, surely in this situation 1). is the safer option, assuming that it's a 'safe' overtake and the only danger in doing it is that the speed limit is broken (eg on a long straight)?
(Yes, I know the best option would be to drop back and leave the 2 second gap, as you're meant to...)
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In a 70 zone, the examiner will mark you down for undue hessitancy(?) if you sit behind a vehicle at below the speed limit when you could easily/safely overtake. My instructor told me this. He also told me that the instructor wont fail you if you have to break the speed limit by 5-10mph to get past a vehicle safely.
Riding a bike is all about safety and confidence and they like to see this on the test.
In a car they teach you to go 60 in a 70 so you have that 10mph safety barrier but on a bike thay like to see you maintain that 70 mph as much as possible.
Maybe it's just in this area that this is tought/accepted, I dunno, I only know what I was tought on my lessons and I passed first time so what I was tought can't be all that bad!!
