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What is wrong with people nowadays?
- Havard
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What is wrong with people nowadays?
Standards are pretty awful at the moment. Indicators are left late to keep you guessing, if used at all.
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- dr_john
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I thought that the BMW envy/hate thing was confined to Z4's, I experienced it often enough in the 3 E89's that I owned.
Not true, now I have a 4 series Msport and it's just as bad, this very morning someone behind me seemed to think it a good idea to drive just a few inches off my back bumper for half a mile or so at 50mph. Mightily relieved when we took different directions at a roundabout.
Not true, now I have a 4 series Msport and it's just as bad, this very morning someone behind me seemed to think it a good idea to drive just a few inches off my back bumper for half a mile or so at 50mph. Mightily relieved when we took different directions at a roundabout.
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- Manfred
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- enzed4
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Gaaaarhgh!!! ^This this this^1000rr wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:44 pmThis. Coming home tonight after work, following someone doing 25mph in a 50 limit, country road with very few blind corners for 2 miles, turns left into a 30 limit and is doing around 50.Darren Slone wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:27 pm
My favourite thing is following someone in a 60mph zone who's doing 40mph then it goes into a 30mph zone and they're still doing 40 mph
Absolutely does my head in when you sit patiently behind someone doing well below the speed limit (for God knows what reason), then get to a speed restricted area and the fecker carries on at the same speed (so from 10 or 20 below the speed limit, to 10 or 20 above the speed limit). Their MPG must be phenomenal...
Or better yet - you follow them for what seems an eternity crawling along city/suburban streets, only to have them run the orange/red at the lights, leaving you stuck there for the next set of changes..
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- Lifer
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The joys of modern day driving
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Triumph GT6 1972 (project)
Land Rover Discovery 1994 TDI (Tow car)
Mini 1000 1981
Beige M sport seats, wood dash
Toyota MR2 NA 1995
Triumph GT6 1972 (project)
Land Rover Discovery 1994 TDI (Tow car)
Mini 1000 1981
- Number5
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Let's just rewimd a little here...
No wonder you pissed him off ! You should be looking to merge in to lane 1 at that stage, then lane 2 perhaps shortly after. If im passing through a junction and I see somebody come down a slip road and immediately across three lanes within the first 200 yards, I'd consider that reckless impatient driving on the basis that driver considers everyone else less important than themselves and lanes 1 & 2 are just for 'other' drivers.
Perhsps he didnt speed up, but that you were not at that stage in the correct position to judge bis speed accurately, purely in your offisde mirror ????
So you are still travelling down the slip road and your primary thought is already to pull across in to the third lane ?
No wonder you pissed him off ! You should be looking to merge in to lane 1 at that stage, then lane 2 perhaps shortly after. If im passing through a junction and I see somebody come down a slip road and immediately across three lanes within the first 200 yards, I'd consider that reckless impatient driving on the basis that driver considers everyone else less important than themselves and lanes 1 & 2 are just for 'other' drivers.
Perhsps he didnt speed up, but that you were not at that stage in the correct position to judge bis speed accurately, purely in your offisde mirror ????
- Crazy Harry
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Didn't the Op say 'first lane' not 'fast lane'?
- Number5
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He did indeed !! - Apologies Bluecat. I misread that !! (I'll go and fetch my spectacles ! )
But people who do go immediately in to the 3rd lane do piss me off !
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Blind git
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Beige M sport seats, wood dash
Toyota MR2 NA 1995
Triumph GT6 1972 (project)
Land Rover Discovery 1994 TDI (Tow car)
Mini 1000 1981
Beige M sport seats, wood dash
Toyota MR2 NA 1995
Triumph GT6 1972 (project)
Land Rover Discovery 1994 TDI (Tow car)
Mini 1000 1981
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- Stuartt
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Bless did you miss the last bus back to the home Alan ?
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2010 e89 35i Sdrive M sport. GONE for salvage but has been reborn
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Dont get me started... Get up to speed of the rd your joining ffs.
It's also the peeps who don't bother looking as the come down the slip and then seem shocked when they get to the bottom and is got someone in it
It's also the peeps who don't bother looking as the come down the slip and then seem shocked when they get to the bottom and is got someone in it
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- Zed Five
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People who stop at roundabouts and THEN look.
My favourite expletive when on bike or in car... a n t i c i p a t e.
My favourite expletive when on bike or in car... a n t i c i p a t e.
Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?
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Reply to Doms, I was doing 45 if you read the second
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