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  • Middle lane Hogging on M8 motorway.
  • uselesshippy
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    Didn’t teach you to keep both hands on the wheel, or not piss about with your phone though did it.
    And a t.at nav isn’t an accurate way of measuring your speed.

    hugor
    Free Member

    are you presently typing this on a laptop balanced on your knee

    No I just love taking photos.

    Having said that when I’m driving home in Friday night traffic stuck at lights for ages, I have often wondered why hasn’t anybody designed a steering wheel mount for an ipad.

    flange
    Free Member

    I call troll…..

    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    I recently did a speed awareness course cause I got done by a camera. Taught me lots but it was a bit boring.

    I hope that you get caught for using a camera phone while driving at some point!
    **** me, that’s some properly selfish and stupid behavior you’re demonstrating very clearly for all to see on an internet forum.

    binners
    Full Member

    Hugor – Show some entrepreneurial spirit man! That’s where your fortune could lie. Think of the market. The possibilities are endless. People could watch porn while simultaneously driving and cracking one off

    Those long tedious motorway journeys would fly by

    davidjey
    Free Member

    call troll…..

    I’m with Flange, although if I see anyone driving down the middle lane of the M4 leaning out the window to photograph his wing mirror, I’ll stand corrected 😀

    randomjeremy
    Free Member

    The worst people are those who sit at 70 in the outside lane, I presume they think they are some kind of law enforcement officer. If they don’t get out of the way I give them a few flashes and slam the horn a few times. If this doesn’t work I undertake them and flip them the bird.

    If I’m not in a rush I just set the cruise to about 80 and sit in the middle lane, it’s too much effort to have to keep switching from the slow lane to overtake trucks and the elderly every few minutes.

    Gotta say I don’t get the hate aimed at Hugor, his approach seems pretty sensible to me.

    alfabus
    Free Member

    stop feeding!

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    “I have often wondered why hasn’t anybody designed a steering wheel mount for an ipad.”

    hugor driving yesterday !

    aracer
    Free Member

    I call troll…..

    I was hoping so. The trouble is, somebody had to take that photo of the satnav creating a huge extra blindspot whilst driving – I don’t think it’s a stock image. So my suspicion is that hugor really is a cock.

    hugor
    Free Member

    Cmon lighten up guys geez.
    Its only Monday. I prefer arguing on weekends.
    Reckon I might avoid any STW rides for a while though.
    They are my pics though.
    Hugor scans hard drive looking for a pic of him taking a pic out of the car window.

    davidjey
    Free Member

    Hugor scans hard drive looking for a pic of him taking a pic out of the car window.

    Who’s taking the photo – did you get someone to drive behind you 🙂

    flange
    Free Member

    Sat Nav in the window for the commute to work…..priceless….

    aracer
    Free Member

    Cmon lighten up guys geez.

    They are my pics though.

    Lighten up at somebody posting evidence of committing driving offences?

    IMHO the police should stop and prosecute drivers for having satnavs positioned as you do.

    hugor
    Free Member

    Hey there have been admissions of speeding, road rage, undertaking and dangerous driving too.

    I’ve not thought about the satnav positioning issue before though.
    Its got to be worse to the left of the steering wheel than where I have it surely.
    Not sure where else to put it really.
    Up high would take your eyes off the road too long.

    aracer
    Free Member

    Not sure where else to put it really.

    How about in front of where you’ve already got a blind spot on the A pillar – or better yet below the bottom of the screen? That’s where built-in sat navs get positioned.

    Where you have yours is an offence either under RTA 1988 41D or CUR 1986 30.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Sat Nav in the window for the commute to work…..priceless….

    I used to do this when I worked in Manchester. Live traffic updates are invaluable when you’ve got the M60 to contend with; when it’s free-flowing, M60 > M602 was my fastest way into work, when it’s crapped up it was the slowest.

    Not sure where else to put it really.

    Get a Brodit mount.

    shadwell
    Free Member

    I have to admit I’m with Hugor on this one. I’ll quite happily go ‘hell for leather’ on a nice route on my Top Trek 9.7 but on the road it is a different story.
    For the past year I have been driving my Insignia. 1.8i 16v VVT, this is more than capable of warding off any other modern top spec car but it doesn’t mean that I have to drive like a lunatic.
    The inside lane on the A9 (dual carriageway) is dominated with lorries, which ultimately ruin the condition of the road. The council refuse to keep these roads in a good state of affair, so, why should I damage my car because the road tax which I pay for is not being used in the correct vein.
    Also, we are encouraged now to look after the environment, and we, as a nation of intelligent human beings have a responsibility to embrase this. My car is of a very high spec and came equipped with cruise control.
    The law states that the speed limit is 70mph. As there is always room for discrepancies to be safe I travel with the cruise control set to 72mph. In my experience the inside lane is very rarely clear so I will use the outside lane. If the police or an emergency service vehicle approaches me from behind then, yes, I will move over as I hope everyone on this forum would.
    Some idiot, (I don’t like using that word but this chap really was), undertook me recently, it was totally unprovoked. So I accelerated up to his speed (87mph) and drove inches from his rear bumper with my headlamps on full beam. I was furious. If he had only waited another 5 minutes or so I would have turned off for my junction.
    He had absolutely NO patience.

    Brycey
    Free Member

    Nice try Shadwell.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    4/10. Started out well, but far too blatant by the end. Good effort, but improvement possible. Biscuit?

    druidh
    Free Member

    The question is: which of the forum regulars is it?
    Someone who was recently banned perhaps?
    Someone with a some knowledge of the Scottish road network?

    druidh
    Free Member

    PeterPoddy – Member
    Just had a quick read through the thread.

    One thing above all strikes me:

    Unless you ARE ACTUALLY the police, YOU are NOT entitled to enforce the law.

    By that I mean if someone else is speeding, that’s none of your business.If you are in the outside lane doing 70mph and a faster car comes up behind you, aren’t you aiding and abetting by getting out of the way?

    Cougar
    Full Member

    If you are in the outside lane doing 70mph and a faster car comes up behind you, aren’t you aiding and abetting by getting out of the way?

    You’ve better tell the DVLA if that’s the case; I did their practice Theory Test online last week and one of the questions is exactly that.

    Dibbs
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    I spent Friday night driving from Taunton to Luton to pick up my daughter (the fact that she flew into Heathrow is a different story 😳 ) I was on the M1/M25 around midnight and the roads where pretty quiet but there where still quite a number driving in the 2nd lane (of 4) at 60ish MPH, what do you do, stay in lane 1 and undertake or move out to lane 3 and overtake.
    I ended up doing either as the situations arose.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Thinking about it, it’s only ‘aiding and abetting’ in the same way that any compliance under duress would be.

    If I worked in a bank and a robber pointed a gun at me saying “give me all the money”, I’d give him all the money. Similarly, if someone came tearing up behind me on the motorway I’d move due to fear for my safety; to wit, someone breaking the speed limit might perform potentially dangerous manoeuvres to pass me if I don’t yield.

    7/10, much more subtle.

    druidh
    Free Member

    Drat!

    Cougar
    Full Member

    what do you do, stay in lane 1 and undertake or move out to lane 3 and overtake.

    THC states that it’s ok to overtake on the left to pass slow-moving vehicles, so long as you’re not intentionally weaving in and out of traffic.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Drat!

    (-:

    Dibbs
    Free Member

    If you are in the outside lane doing 70mph and a faster car comes up behind you, aren’t you aiding and abetting by getting out of the way?

    Try hogging the outside lane in Germany the sight of someone appearing in your mirror at warp speed soon convinces you to get out of the way 😯

    v8ninety
    Full Member

    Mildly amusing thread; Your road traffic law infringment is worse/more infuriating/risks more childrens faces than my road traffic law infringment…

    dogbert
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    TurnerGuy
    Free Member

    Some idiot, (I don’t like using that word but this chap really was), undertook me recently, it was totally unprovoked. So I accelerated up to his speed (87mph) and drove inches from his rear bumper with my headlamps on full beam. I was furious. If he had only waited another 5 minutes or so I would have turned off for my junction.
    He had absolutely NO patience.

    I think the idiot here is the person hogging the outside lane, then speeding and tailgating like an idiot…

    v8ninety
    Full Member

    I think the idiot here is the person hogging the outside lane, then speeding and tailgating like an idiot…

    You’ve been trolled!! 😆

    read the next few posts, with special reference to cougar and druidh…

    TurnerGuy
    Free Member

    You’ve been trolled!!

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhdRsnm7jcU&feature=related[/video]

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