Grr! Rude Twot on SV Thou

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 . What a rude twot!!

I hope it was nobody on here?!?

not guilty i wasnt in london.

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

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.

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

Originally Posted by 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 . 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!

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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.

not guilty, I don't use the M11

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

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.

Originally Posted by lynw

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?