Come to think of it the lorry driver was actually merging in turn – just the drivers in front had already merged some distance before the lane restriction :lol:

+1 for the lorry drivers.
Merging in turn is great in theory & works if everyone does it properly, but you usually get some t**t braking like hell & "merging" at the last possible oportunity – if you are in a truck you've got a lump of gears to go through & use more fuel in stop start traffic so it's better to keep trundling along rather than stop starting caused by the late brake brigade. BTW – you joined a queue behind the lorry & got to the obstruction behind the lorry so what is your gripe exactly?

If there was no traffic in the middle lane for 1/2 mile or so, what was the OP doing in the outside lane in the first place? I "undertake" all the time but without all the flashing lights fuss… just have to keep your wits about you, daresay I'll get pulled one day.
TJ – my experience is that cyclists are the worst drivers, my brother said he didn't care if he got a ban because he cycled almost everywhere anyway

new google search is rubbish

If you are paying tax on the basis that you have the use of the company car but pay for any private mileage (ie a reduced rate of tax) then the tax office are quite within their rights to ask your company for proof of this & could tax you otherwise if they are not able to provide such proof. Just filling up when you use the car is not good enough, our company has been through all this & I have to fill in daily record of private & company mileage, plus provide receipts for all fuel bought & must be "in credit" at the end of each month when mileage sheets are handed in. Might be a pain in the arse but it does ensure that I don't get a huge tax bill a few years down the line.
As regards boss wanted to know when you are driving it – that's just down to your company policy & will have no effect on the taxman.

Once drove through a pedestrian underpass in Bracknell by mistake :oops: Couldn't see why I was getting such funny looks till I got to the other end to find only pavement or grass to coninue my journey on….

In my defence I did my basic learner driving in Zambia & can confirm what Graham said…nasty

This will be my 5th but planning to be my first solo too, 20 weeks to loose 20lbs, but just back from beer & chips at the pub… :oops:

I think they are allowed to take 28 days to deliver under distance selling regs, but could be wrong.

Thanks Clubber – think I'll give it a miss then.

If going uphill I'd give way for same reasons as monster says, but wouldn't necessarily expect any preference whilst going downhill.

Just be careful if you meet a retard like me though – pushed a gate open for a guy going downhill on Saturday afternoon & then realised too late that it had a spring return on it…… ouch (huge appology to guy on a Kona riding down to the Wormsley Estate)

As a business selling on ebay they must come under distance selling regulations? Wouldn't neg feedback been sufficient?

Almost certainly not correct, but live & let live I say, it's not like mtb riders never use footpaths is it?

Coffeeeking – trail centres may be purpose built cycle tracks but they sure as hell ain't race tracks and shouldn't be treated as such, chill out & take it easy.

go on a jolly for two years & we'll write off that £40k you owe us… oh & pigs fly too :lol:

CG – sorry never bothered with any mapping software but can usually turn my hand to most things if necessary & I've got a fair few of the folding paper type ones on the shelf anyway.

You'll be wanting Audax UK then – nutters all in a class of their own. My brother has done something like 430 miles in 24hrs but there must be others that have done 500 plus at a guess….

CG – From the Little Frieth side as you enter the woods through the wooden kissing gate there is a little no cycling sign. Usually cycle with just myself or + 1 (read misserable git) but have done a couple of bike bashes this year & lived round these parts for 35 years, so feel free to email me with any details of help wanted or rides coming up. I was thinking of popping over to Swinley on the 7th Feb just to say hello anyway :wink:

Yeh I'm sure I saw horse prints there on Saturday too, not been there enough to know if you'd get a slap on the wrist but there is a no cycling sign on the gate, which usually warns me off. Personally if you are in small numbers (max 3) I'd keep using it until told otherwise.

Bucks CC definitive rights of way maps are only available to view at their various council offices, but the rights of way officer (row@buckscc.gov.uk) seem to answer specific queerys very quickly if you give them the right info (GR's etc).

Strictly speaking the definitie map only confirms the affirmative – ie if it's on the map it is definitely a right of way – if it's not on the map it doesn't mean it isn't a right of way if you get what I mean??

CG – hit upon the same problem at the weekend & just checked with local rights of way officer – I'm afraid that the OS map is wrong, there are no bridleways through Mousells Wood. :cry:

I have three fairly grown up boys, couldn't even get them to go riding in the snow with me last weekend – where did I go wrong?

Not being old enough to remember the 60's skins I can't comment on that era, however the 80's skins weren't all racist thugs or have the Specials AKA been forgotten already?

Spongebob – find a friendly lorry driver & spend a day in their cab to enlighten yourself as to other drivers inconsiderate habits

cxi – same thing here, just disconnect the condenser output at the boiler & catch the condense with a saucepan or bucket – but you'll have to be careful as they'll be a backlog of water when you first disconnect it. Then fire up the boiler as normal – but you'll need a big saucepan or bucket & keep emptying it as there is quite alot of condense off those boilers.

4×4 diesel estate with spare set of all terrain tyres – job done!

….just a shame I have a mondeo & work from home, so no excuses there either, doh!

buy a couple of bangers in a week or two & then park them very badly in the entrance to their car park one lunchtime – just coz it's a bit snowy their is no excuse to flout the parking rules

"cash to his production company" is just a way of avoiding paying national insurance & tax etc – costs the BBC less & "employees" are better off. It doesn't mean that he is paying lots of people to do other work behind the scenes.

Good ridance – what right society is prepared to pay the equivalent of maybe 180 nurses salaries for one publically funded TV & radio presenter?

CRC, merlin, wiggle, evans, cyclesportsuk all been excellent with no complaints – apart from when I took a set of Blackburn lights back to an Evans shop when I thought it might be a bright idea to demonstrate what was actually wrong with them – they posted them back to me two weeks later without repairing them :?

Zokes – well said – if there an applaud button here somewhere I'd like to press it

ernie – appropriate speed for the conditions is the issue, greater speed deceleration is almost always going to have a bad result, if you are doing 140mph past lorries at 70mph then I would suggest that the appropriate speed has been exceeded – but the question is would I be the demon of all time if I were to be doing that sort of speed on an empty straight dual carriageway at say 2am with no other vehicles in sight?

It's just easier to catch & do people for speeding than it is to catch & do them for "driving like a tw*t" for instance. There are roads round here that you'd have to be absolutely insane to be doing 60mph on them in even perfect condtions & there are also roads that limited to much lower speeds which don't make any sense at all – to do people for speeding in those circumstances is just easy pickings.

statistically speaking it would be safer to do away with all speed limits – then no one would die from speeding

"warning that almost half a metre of snow could fall on Salisbury Plain"

"almost" & "could" & "Salisbury Plain" hardly equate to 40cm in London do they now?

Fresh snow – MTB all the way, get out & enjoy it

They certainly err way too far on the side of caution round here – nothing to do with the caretaker not wanting to clean up after 150 pairs of wet wellington boots have stomped through the doors of course – and it is the caretaker who calls it in at our local school as he lives on site.

As for teaching profession – from what I've seen, way harder than most people imagine.

just think of all that time they waste day in day out having to travel that much further everyday to work normally…. & then stop your bl..dy whining

Damn & blast, my boiler must have overheard me, frozen condense pipe again.. brrrrr

Microsoft office picture manager – select all the photos (rather than just one at a time), then edit, then compress to the size you want. I'd been doing it one at a time for ages before I sussed that one out!

Are you sure it is a pipe that is freezing? Last year it was the condense pipe on my boiler that froze & stopped the boiler from working, so I only got cold water.

Mate of mine hasn't made the beast with two backs for over 10 years now – got shafted by the child support agency after a one night stand reached it's natural conclusion & now runs a mile from any temptations….

+1 for what Johnbot just said, would be totally fair in my eyes