Overtaking just as the speed limit increases

Mark_Hewitt

Strider590 wrote: »

Better to let a driver complete his/her overtake, it's far less dangerous.

Spot on. Even if you know you can immediately go faster, the driver will have already committed to their manoeuvre, the only thing to do is help them complete it as soon as possible. It's not the time or place to teach them a lesson or anything similar.

You can do that a few seconds later when you overtake them right back again!

mikey72

Strider590 wrote: »

When I was out in the Westfield in these situations, I used to let them finish their overtake, then as they pulled back in i'd pull out in 3rd gear, floor it to 9'000 rpm and leave them in a cloud of tyre smoke.
Better to let a driver complete his/her overtake, it's far less dangerous.

Why, twenty second later you now have him back in your boot, assuming you're both doing the NSL?

Strider590

^^ If he's on my boot in the 30 limit, then he's probably a 45mph driver.

anewman

Deleted_User wrote: »

And no I wasn't hogging the outside lane as I was following other cars in it plus a roundabout was coming up which I needed to be in the right for.

Those situations are the best, I look out for people trying to undertake and floor it so they can't plus I am quite happy going rather fast up to the roundabout and late braking just to stop people like that.

That leads me to another annoyance, people who approach in the left lane and think that it's okay to undertake you on the roundabout to go right, and of course you have to do the sensible thing, slow down and let the idiots past, or go around the roundabout again.

[Deleted User]

pwllbwdr wrote: »

Therefore there was a "long" amount of inside lane free that you weren't using?

That's not the point. I wasn't the one driving like a mong. I needed to be in the right lane ahead and all the other traffic was moving along happily.

If he had zoomed up behind me in the right lane wanting to be passed, then I would of moved over with pleasure for him.

Lum

anewman wrote: »

Those situations are the best, I look out for people trying to undertake and floor it so they can't plus I am quite happy going rather fast up to the roundabout and late braking just to stop people like that.

That leads me to another annoyance, people who approach in the left lane and think that it's okay to undertake you on the roundabout to go right, and of course you have to do the sensible thing, slow down and let the idiots past, or go around the roundabout again.

Counterpoint:

Slow people who move into the right hand lane for a roundabout that's still two miles away. You get them all the time on the A467 around Risca and it really screws up the whole concept of an overtaking lane when the left lane moves faster half the time.

I suspect opinion on the exact distance at which to change my vary between drivers and cause annoyance.

System

There is a 2 mile stretch of dual carriageway on the A41 around Whitchurch where people treat the whole length as a filter lane for the roundabout at the end. What makes it worse is that it happens in both directions

anewman

Lum wrote: »

Slow people who move into the right hand lane for a roundabout that's still two miles away. You get them all the time on the A467 around Risca and it really screws up the whole concept of an overtaking lane when the left lane moves faster half the time.

Rogerstone to Risca is probably most problematic, seems some can't be bothered getting up to 70 because they'd have to slow for the next roundabout. Will only get worse once Tesco opens. Also mucho pointless yellow rumble strips. I only now go slower for the later rumble strips up Forge Rd up to J28 of M4 as there's a big bump at the end which sends wheels airborne making ABS kick in.

martinbuckley

Drivers who slow down to 10-20mph below the speed limit every time they approach a speed camera get on my nerves.

And lorries that insist on overtaking other lorries on hills at 1mph faster than the lorry they are overtaking.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!:mad:

anewman

martinbuckley wrote: »

And lorries that insist on overtaking other lorries on hills at 1mph faster than the lorry they are overtaking.

The problem with Elephant Racing is it's generally a speed limiter competition, one speed limiter will limit it only slightly less than the other and lorries are desperate to get to their destination as fast as possible, which means if they can overtake at 0.5mph faster they will.