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Gaygle;30480001 said:^^ What 40mph drivers think when someone dares to go more than 40mph.
Lol exactly. If only they realised that at 41 you don't just instantly wrap around a tree...
Gaygle;30480001 said:^^ What 40mph drivers think when someone dares to go more than 40mph.
Housey;30479156 said:If you come across a road blocker pootling at 50% of the speed limit, the only way to overtake is using shock and awe. Exhaust baffles open, drop a few cogs, ensure you have a run up, ensure 8000 rpm plus at the overtake point, ensure change as you pull back in with full sports burble, pull away at pace so any action they chose is an irrelevance. This is morting law handed down for generations.
Some people legitimately have no feel whatsoever of what the car is doing. If a person has no interest in cars or driving then they normally cant drive 'properly' as they have done no research/reading as to how different types of car behave.Dis86;30480072 said:Lol exactly. If only they realised that at 41 you don't just instantly wrap around a tree...
This is when launch control is essential, unless road is wettom_e;30479517 said:Housey understands a 10k rpm screaming flyby and then flames shooting out of my exhaust as I roll off into the sunset is the only way to properly deal with these people.
I had to pull a similar move last night after being stuck behind someone doing a max of 35 on a clear NSL road for about 5 miles after they'd nailed it off a set of light to block me getting past and merging in front of them, if nothing else I woke them up at least.
41mph is not 60mph, which is what Police witnesses estimated as the speed of the woman who smacked me off my bike, AFTER she hit the brakes. Speed before was put at over 80, apparently.Gaygle;30480001 said:^^ What 40mph drivers think when someone dares to go more than 40mph.
If you say so, kid... Go ahead, then - Pass away.Dis86;30480072 said:Lol exactly. If only they realised that at 41 you don't just instantly wrap around a tree...
Kamerad;30480595 said:ttaskmaster you are talking about something completely different to everyone else.
Gaygle;30479508 said:The issue is that often people that are doing inappropriately slow speeds are doing it because they haven't got the ability to go higher speeds, whether this be due to their age, eyesight, tiredness, intoxication, they get easily flustered or condition of their car is bad - so you then have to question why should we put up with it? If they don't think they don't have the reactionary ability to go more than 40mph on a clear NSL road, how are they going to fair if something pulls out in front of them or a child runs out? I have said it before, but I can see it in my own dad. He used to drive at appropriate speeds etc, but in the last view years, when i've been in the car with him, he'll slow down to 30mph for some reason on a bend which you can quite clearly take at 60mph. And again, he'll sometimes do 40mph, whilst I'm wondering why he is going this slowly. It's because he's getting older and his reactions aren't as good.
Gaygle;30479508 said:I regularly pull over people who are doing inappropriately slow speeds and 90% of the time they are old, have poor eyesight and are just "not really with it". Would I trust them to take avoiding action in an emergency? Would I hell.
Gaygle;30479508 said:If it is safe to do 60mph, then you should be doing 60mph in an NSL. If it is safe to do 40mph in an 40mph then you should. If you are doing less than that, why? Doing inappropriately low speeds causes people behind to take unnecessary risks, and causes whole trains of cars with people not keeping safe distances - all because one person at the front of the queue wants to do 20mph under the speed limit.
Spartacus;30479045 said:Yes and the same drivers that do 40 in a 60 limit continue to do 40 in a 30 limit. I've encountered similar behaviour too, pipping their horn and flashing me after I do a safe overtake because they're driving too slow. Makes you want to get out the car and give them a slap, but luckily I have something called self control.
Fr0dders;30480626 said:One of my pet hates is people hogging the 2nd lane of a dual carriageway doing 60mph because they need to turn right at the roundabout 3 miles up the road
mrk;30480792 said:Are you the type who honks at the person in front for not lifting off 0.03ms after the lights turn green?
I blow bees at your general direction for such behaviour.
Fr0dders;30480626 said:One of my pet hates is people hogging the 2nd lane of a dual carriageway doing 60mph because they need to turn right at the roundabout 3 miles up the road
bobbarley;30479698 said:Hey, hey. It's a 320d, re-mapped to 220bhp, around 400nm torque. It doesn't lack for power