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You'll like this use of (red,)blues and twos.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70f_1303178904

Good technique. Think they should adopt it over here too.

sometimes i wish i had blue lights and a siren for the exact same purpose...

Dalemac wrote:sometimes i wish i had blue lights and a siren for the exact same purpose...

+1

Ive got a Dell Streak (Android phone).. I downloaded a light programme which came with a flashing Blue/Red light option. It's got a 5.5" screen or thereabouts, It does shine quite well if you were possibly to put it in your windscreen... and press the relevant button... on the way back from Tesco.. maybe.. ..
I blame my son... honest...

Kwackerz wrote:I blame my son... honest...

I've been blaming your son for a lot of things, as well. I've never met him, but he does seem a convenient scapegoat...

Kwackerz wrote:I blame my son... honest...

and now the circle of life is complete, I bet Samray has used the very same excuse many times before.

Dalemac wrote:sometimes i wish i had blue lights and a siren for the exact same purpose...

Sometime I wish I had rocket-propelled grenades .............

For example, today coming back along a dual carriageway, there was a taxi dawdling along in the outside lane at about 40. Having positioned myself so that it was obvious that I wished to pass rather than dawdle he just sat there ambling along.
After some time, I gave up and moved to the inside lane myself .... not able to go any faster as unlike USA (where the video was shot), you cannot overtake on the inside.
Eventually a reasonable queue grew behind the taxi and all of a sudden a bike comes hurting through at warp-speed - undertaking the queue behind the taxi and to the right of me ..... stupid numpty - small gap - no margin should anything go wrong .... and the perfect opportunity for my mrs (and probably half the motorists in the queue) to tar all bikers with the same brush and make disparaging remarks.
Biker was a stupid twat.... but taxi-man even moreso as none of this would have happened had he driven in the lane he was supposed to.

Our arrival at the next roundabout gave me the opportunity to draw level and wave my arms about at said taxi-man ..... illiciting a further telling off from my mrs (apparently I'm supposed to just ignore it). Not sure what she'd have made at the deployment of the rocket-propelled grenades ....

D-Rider wrote:.... not able to go any faster as unlike USA (where the video was shot), you cannot overtake on the inside.
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You're not allowed to overtake on the inside however it is perfectly legal to drive with the speed of the traffic in the inside lane, even if that happens to be faster than that in the outside.

IIRC you are not actually classed as undertaking someone until you pull back into the outside lane having passed them.

However what this doesn't take into account is that if the idiot in the outside lane is oblivious enough not to notice that he's holding up the traffic, he may just decide to move over withiut looking at the very moment you are alongside them.

back_marker wrote:
You're not allowed to overtake on the inside however it is perfectly legal to drive with the speed of the traffic in the inside lane, even if that happens to be faster than that in the outside.

IIRC you are not actually classed as undertaking someone until you pull back into the outside lane having passed them.

Ooooh - I didn't know that ..... mind you as I was the inside-lane "pace setting car" it might have been harder for me to justify that I was keeping up with the general flow .....

Congrats on post number 500

perfect opportunity for my mrs (and probably half the motorists in the queue) to tar all bikers with the same brush and make disparaging remarks.

I've just been replying to biker on another forum who was complaining about the behaviour of other road users and wanting to know what we thought. I wanted to express more or less your thought above but as he had asked, I tried to be a little more gentle - don't think he will like my answer though!

to be honest,if people are sitting in the outside lane and not moving over, i have no issue with undertaking them. And my thinking is, the quicker the manouver is over, the better...

if people would move back into the left lane rather than pootling around oblivious to the world then no-one would be forced to undertake.

i remember one particular incident on the a46 where a woman was hogging the outside lane, with aout 6 cars following her waiting to overtake, then me on the bike. the left lane was clear, and if i remember correctly, she was sitting just under the speed limit.

i undertook all the traffic, pulled back into the right lane and signalled for her to get the f**k over to the left lane. she did, and everyone went on with their journey.

A3 just after the Robin Hood roundabout going south a few years back. The road opens up to 3 lanes and 70mph. Matey in the outside lane with nothingin the 2 lanes to his left sees me in his mirror and indicates I should undertake him.

Not slow to takethe opportunity I oblige at which point he swerves left.

Thankfully the extra lane and copious ammounts of Falco acceleration avoid making a mess of HRH's highway.

There is no doubt in my mind that this knuckle dragger did this on purpose and I did not misinterpret his hand signals (that's what the yellow flashy things at each corner are for anyway).

Needless to say the red mist was instantly deployed, I intended use the turn off for Wimbledon to rejoin behind him with the intent of following him and beat 9 shades of shit out of him, but by the time I got there I decided against it.

Moral, ride defensively, watch out for fuckwits, take reg no. find twat and burn his house down.

Cant say I undertake any more to be honest. Ive been the car that's sideswiped a courier bike undertaking in my car's blindspot only luck avoided me knocking him off.

Check mirror -Ah a bike, wonder what it is, looks like a Hornet- indicate, check side mirror, move over from my place in a queue of traffic trying to pass a dawdler, glancing forward as you do, to where it is that im going and Blam! Bike alongside my front wing with his flapping trouser just rubbing my wing then he's gone. Didnt slow, didnt acknowledge the incident just shot off up the inside of all 3 cars and the dawdler.

I now normally just sit in the lane behind the offending muppet with a planned escalation of action involving lights, indicators and semi automatic weaponry.

Herd mentality. Treat riding on motorways like running about in a herd of cattle, mostly the cows won't move, but one might get spooked. Get through them, but always have an escape route.