he might not check for a car on the inside lane because he shouldn't have to..
C'mooon, I hope you don't mean that as "when moving into the inside lane you shouldn't have to look regardless of mirrors, signalling or manueveouvering". That's BS, of course he should!
Reading this thread, as a predominant biker, I can see the attitude of some people is in the direct direction. Except for the above which I hope is not true, or that means my ass! Not that I undertake on bike, more that I could be doing 70 and in the drivers inside blind spot whilst middle laner is also doing around same speed.
Middle and outside are for overtaking. Legally you are allowed to exceed 70mph as long as you cut back in when safe to do so, etc. What seems to happen most is people will move out to overtake and cba to move back in the inner lanes maintaining speed because they see a lorry doing 65mph 1/2 a mile ahead and think "I'll just stick in this lane".
In reality they could move in the inside for a good 20-30 seconds allowing faster moving/over taking vehicles to go past before finding a safe time to over take the lorry.
The attitude of the type of car you are in, whoring the outside lane and ramming your front end 6m up the other car at 70+mph is unreal.
I've heard many older school bikers saying they don't ride as much if at all now due to two main reasons:
1) Friends being killed through accidents
2) Drivers/Riders idiocy being forever on the increase.
Either way it all points to the fact that people are becoming stupider on the roads. If it be lack of concentration, due care, knowledge, experience or whatever. People need to relax more and just take their damn time.
When driving you are in control of a killing machine, possibly the nations number one killer, iirc.
So stop acting like douche bags when you get in one!!!
