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Old 07-08-04, 06:53 PM   #1
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Default Things That Car Drivers Do To P155 You Off!

1. Talk on their phone!
2. Driver up your ****!
3. Smoke!
4. Smoke and chuck fags out their window!
5. Move over to stop you cutting through solid traffic!
6. Speed up as you overtake!
7. Drive to slow!
8. Talk to their mate insted of watching the road!
9. Have children climbing around the back woth no seatbelt!
10. When they cant pick a ****ing lane!
11. OVERTAKE! - not since the sv (got overtaken on one of my bike tests (was waiting for the examiner to catch up))

Please Post More Of The Things That P155 You Off!

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Old 07-08-04, 07:26 PM   #2
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Two things:

1. Manouvre/start to signal at the same..............often without checking mirrors
2. Pull out and make a feeble/token effort to get up to the speed of the traffic behind, causing otherwise unnecessary braking and "bunching".

Lorry drivers:

On two-lane motorways, they pullout to overtake another lorry travelling 0.2mph slower than they are whilst having no apparent regard to the fact that theres a line of 50 significantly faster-moving vehicles overtaking them both at the time.

I've seen more near-misses (more correctly called near-hits) caused by this than anything else on the motorways. Would it really hurt for them to wait a few seconds to let the overtaking queue past?
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Old 07-08-04, 07:44 PM   #3
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out on the SV today (testing out the lowered seat, DIY, recommended )

Anyway, within 5 miles there were 2 cases of cars doing 3-point-turns in totally stupid inappropriate places. One in a country lane with high hedges and at best 50m visibility, the second on a main road through a village (admittedly a 30 limit) but again within 50m of a blind bend. After I passed the second, I watched in mirrors as a car had to brake to a standstill confronted by the side of a Mini across the road.

The sad thing is that these people clearly have no idea what's going on around them, and absolutely no imagination. A danger to us all, I'm afraid.
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Old 07-08-04, 08:18 PM   #4
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1. Swash their windscreen at speed, when you're behind, causing aplenty of spray on the visor or in your face.
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Old 07-08-04, 08:38 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jabba-the-Hut
Two things:

Lorry drivers:

On two-lane motorways, they pullout to overtake another lorry travelling 0.2mph slower than they are whilst having no apparent regard to the fact that theres a line of 50 significantly faster-moving vehicles overtaking them both at the time.
I was going to Nothingham down the A50 (Stoke to M1), dual carriageway..
got stuck right behind two trucks doing the 56mph race
It took them 8miles to sort it out!!!
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Old 07-08-04, 09:01 PM   #6
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Fags out the window - now that really annoys me!


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Old 07-08-04, 09:21 PM   #7
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Illegally rolling into the cyclist's patch at traffic lights, stopping me from illegally doing the same!
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Old 07-08-04, 09:38 PM   #8
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Im not going to say that all Lorry Drivers are perfect, we are not. Neither are many Motorcyclists and Car Drivers certainly are not.

But if you read this post from the Telegraph, it might put new light on matters.

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/po...tm?f=2&t=23968

Remember that on Motorways no-one has any training except Truck Drivers on work experience. Learner car drivers and bike riders are not allowed to use them
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Old 07-08-04, 09:58 PM   #9
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People who hide this sort of "Idle Banter" in the SV Talk threads
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Old 07-08-04, 10:25 PM   #10
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Illegally rolling into the cyclist's patch at traffic lights, stopping me from illegally doing the same!
A Cyclist waiting at red lights? I think not. Even if they did, I'm yet to see a cyclist insane enough to tempt fate by sitting in front of a row of impatient car drivers waiting in line to squash them.
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