People who have a problem being overtaken

ianobrien

I was coming out of Innishannon one day heading for Cork, and there is a nice climbing lane there (and the hill is a proper test of torque). Anyway, it was a fine Sunday, and I had the vintage Escort out for a spin.

Coming from Bandon to Innishannon, I was behind this car (nice shiney Focus), obviously out for a Sunday drive, judging by the speed. I wasn't too worried about overtaking as I knew the climbing lane would be there at the far side of Innishannon. Anyway, leaving Innishannon, as soon as the climbing lane started, I moved to overtake the Focus. (we were both on the hill at this time). The problem there was that the 60kph zone finishes just before the climbing lane starts, and the Focus was trying to go up the hill in fifth gear (it was just about holding 60kph).

I decided that the Escort needed a little clearing and dropped it into third and used the torque to accellerate past him. There was a look of anger on his face (how dare that old piece of junk overtake me?/Old cars should go slow!/take your pick). You could see him looking at the floor/looking at the dials/looking at me/looking at the dials when I was overtaking him.

Anyway, I completed my overtake and resumed travelling at 55mph. About two minutes later, the Focus shot past me on a solid white line, lights a-blazing, look of "take that, you!" on his face.

It was a pity he never checked what I was behind. I was travelling behind an unmarked squad car that he overtook at the same time. Needless to say, there was a very slight smirk on my face when I passed him on the side of the road, when he was having a chat with AGS!

corktina

they are everywhere, the a***holes...

my last time was a Hyundai coupe who obviously ddint like an old Cortina passing him and repeatedly (on the M8) passed me and slowed up again. Eventually I got bored with this moron and increased my speed to a level he couldnt live with and lost him forever. I was quite happy to be cruising at the speed limit before...

Voodoomelon

langdang wrote: »

They are the same people who flash you from 3 miles away when you are overtaking coming towards them.

This I hate. You're back on your own side of the road for 4-5 seconds and some on-coming maniac is flashing like a mad thing.

I often find smaller cars moving into the hard shoulder to let me buy when i'm nowhere near them, happened only yesterday. Usually aul biddys afraid of 60kph+.

Wicklowrider

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

When I changed from a black Alfa 155 (fairly menacing in your mirrors) to a pre-facelift Multipla (eh, not so much), I noticed a huge change in other drivers behaviour.

Where people used to keep in and let me by, they suddenly started to speed up, pull out and generally act awkward to stop me from passing them.

Ha, I once had a Skoda Rapide ( stop sniggering) - if you overtook anything, including a reliant robin, they charged after you and almost killed themselves overtaking you.

Eric Cartman

Because of the height of my pickup people tend to move out of the way to avoid my headlights blinding them in the rear view , but VAG TDi golf/passat drivers see you and turn it into a diesel fired race, constantly coming alongside you

RandomAccess

draffodx wrote: »

To add to this why do people flash you after you've overtaken them?

About 3 weeks ago I was driving home on the N2 when I overtook two cars in a perfectly safe manner, after pulling in the car behind me flashed me.

I then proceeded to overtake another car and as I went to do this the car behind flashed at me again.

Again I was overtaking a car going slow (85 in 100 zone) on a perfectly safe straight bit of road.

Did you signal?

I hate people floating around lanes without signaling, can't tell if they are wandering out of lane cos they are drunk/asleep/on the phone or they are intentionally moving out.

I sometimes flash them (motorway) because if they were to signal the maneuver then I wouldn't have to keep as close an eye on them as I know what they are doing.

Atomic Pineapple

RandomAccess wrote: »

Did you signal?

I hate people floating around lanes without signaling, can't tell if they are wandering out of lane cos they are drunk/asleep/on the phone or they are intentionally moving out.

I sometimes flash them (motorway) because if they were to signal the maneuver then I wouldn't have to keep as close an eye on them as I know what they are doing.

Yes!

I wasn't on a motorway. It was the N2 between Ashbourne and Slane (Not the motorway part)

ABEasy

langdang wrote: »

Were the cars you overtook Corollas? John-Joe and Biddy on their way from or to mass?
"Jesus Mary and Joseph, the speed, John-Joe, the SPEED, they'll kill us all"
"don't worry Biddy, I'll drive with two wheels over the white line to stop the next townie in a rush"

They are the same people who flash you from 3 miles away when you are overtaking coming towards them.

Had a case of 'John Joe' on the way home tonight, not great conditions on a national road 100kmph zone, caught up with car doing 70kmph, who proceeded to break to 55-60 with each oncoming car. the road opened up so I decided to overtake, indicated and went, as soon as I was about to pass he veered over the white line to prevent me. I blew him out of it, overtook (road widened for the strech we were on), he then started flashing me for the next mile till I had finally lost him in the rear mirror. f eckers like that cause accidents...

Anto687

This happened to me on the northbound stretch of the M11, after the Beehive pub. I was cruising up there on the way home at around 11 at night, just me on the road, crest the hill, on the speed limit, and see a Laguna ahead, doing about 100 Km/H. So I indicate out, cruise past, clear a safe distance, and indicate back in. Next thing, the Laguna picks up speed (Bear in mind, I was still at 120), overtakes, and back down to 100.

As he was overtaking, I was slowing, both to let him pass, and incase, as happened, he decided to pull in in front of me.

I left him in front until the top of the next hill (I drive a 1.4 MG ZR, not bags of torque, and didn't really want to spur him on by dropping two gears and roaring past), then indicated out, and overtook again.

Same story. Overtakes me and back down to 100. So I backed off, let him go on, and passed him(stopped!!) at a speed checkpoint in Kilmacanogue.

Guess he stuck to 100 in the 80 zone too!

I've also had people flash me for joining a motorway, at the appropriate speed, about 15 car lengths in front of them.


Also, it seems that the newer Luxobarges only seem to include indicators at what must be an enormously expensive option..

hobochris

ianobrien wrote: »

I was coming out of Innishannon one day heading for Cork, and there is a nice climbing lane there (and the hill is a proper test of torque). Anyway, it was a fine Sunday, and I had the vintage Escort out for a spin.

Coming from Bandon to Innishannon, I was behind this car (nice shiney Focus), obviously out for a Sunday drive, judging by the speed. I wasn't too worried about overtaking as I knew the climbing lane would be there at the far side of Innishannon. Anyway, leaving Innishannon, as soon as the climbing lane started, I moved to overtake the Focus. (we were both on the hill at this time). The problem there was that the 60kph zone finishes just before the climbing lane starts, and the Focus was trying to go up the hill in fifth gear (it was just about holding 60kph).

I decided that the Escort needed a little clearing and dropped it into third and used the torque to accellerate past him. There was a look of anger on his face (how dare that old piece of junk overtake me?/Old cars should go slow!/take your pick). You could see him looking at the floor/looking at the dials/looking at me/looking at the dials when I was overtaking him.

Anyway, I completed my overtake and resumed travelling at 55mph. About two minutes later, the Focus shot past me on a solid white line, lights a-blazing, look of "take that, you!" on his face.

It was a pity he never checked what I was behind. I was travelling behind an unmarked squad car that he overtook at the same time. Needless to say, there was a very slight smirk on my face when I passed him on the side of the road, when he was having a chat with AGS!

I love when stories end the way you hope they will

Bleedin Delish

Guys just dont like people overtaking them ... still I HATE people flashing their lights behind me if I am on the motorway and I am overtaking someone myself and some tool usually in some old piece of sh*t BMW or Mondeo comes flying up behind you and starts flashing it boils the blood :mad:

rabbitinlights

Bleedin Delish wrote: »

still I HATE people flashing their lights behind me if I am on the motorway and I am overtaking someone myself and some tool usually in some old piece of sh*t BMW or Mondeo comes flying up behind you and starts flashing it boils the blood :mad:

Not saying it applies to you, but I hate when people go to overtake on a motorway/dualer but take 10min to slowly get past the car in the left lane backing up any traffic travelling faster than them...

(Just to note, I drive an old bmw.......;))

Mc Love

Bleedin Delish wrote: »

Guys just dont like people overtaking them ... still I HATE people flashing their lights behind me if I am on the motorway and I am overtaking someone myself and some tool usually in some old piece of sh*t BMW or Mondeo comes flying up behind you and starts flashing it boils the blood :mad:

Feck them - keep to the speed limit! Why get points for someone else's lack of patience

thats not gone well

Feck them - keep to the speed limit! Why get points for someone else's lack of patience

why bother policing other peoples speed? its not your problem/business if they decide to boot it down the road.

this forum is full of people giving out bout the "right lane speed patrol"
if it bothers you MOVE OVER

Brabus

I have to say there is a huge difference when it comes to what you are driving at any time.
From time to time, I get to drive the auld fella's '07 Landcruiser and in the main, most other drivers will leave proper distance between them and me on the road.
However, its a totally different story when I'm in my own which happens to be a '95 car. They will pass you even going into blind bends, on the R roads and well over 80kph.
The prevailing attitude is "Well, I'll be damned if I'm going to stay behind you, you piece of '95 crap!!":(

Lemming

Bleedin Delish wrote: »

Guys just dont like people overtaking them ... still I HATE people flashing their lights behind me if I am on the motorway and I am overtaking someone myself and some tool usually in some old piece of sh*t BMW or Mondeo comes flying up behind you and starts flashing it boils the blood :mad:

Happened to me this evening on the M1 southbound (that'd be the M1 southbound towards Sheffield, from Leeds, not Belfast to Dublin). There's a big long straight (with a couple of on/off ramps) just before the final stretch before my turn off at Sheffield (jct.34) and the road was quite busy for around 7.40pm, so I was overtaking a bunch of cars over taking a couple of trucks. No cars behind me, and I moved into the inner lane from middle to do so.

Whilst I'm making progress passing out cars a tool in a V reg (roughly 1999/2000) saloon with his fogs on (and no, there was no fog) comes screaming up behind me and flashes whilst simultaneously proceeding to absolutely /ride/ the bumper. There was no sit back for a second and then flash politely if it looked like I was sitting there. This driver was simply being a cvnt. I had a solid line of cars to my left so where in the name of f*ck was I meant to go? And there's a well known favourite police parking spot for catching speeders about 800m up ahead (on a corner of an S-bend going downhill onto the final straight before jnct.34), so I wasn't risking a speeding ticket for the likes of this cvnt. So I just kept overtaking the traffic to the left in good time whilst staying as close to the limit as I could given the very likely potential for a radar gun ahead.

An opening did eventually appear as traffic started to slow down with the upcoming police spot and I moved in left, but not before smiling in the satisfaction that the cvnt behind me lost a few minutes of his life from stress for all of ten, maybe twenty seconds that he felt I wasn't going fast enough to suit him.

sparkthatbled

The most dangerous thing, always see it on the m1, is when people in the left lane slowly catching up on a truck see you coming fast up the right lane and swerve out in front of you, forcing you to jam on the brakes because they didn't want the inconvenience of dropping from 85kph to 80kph for 5 seconds.

I found when i was driving a Corsa that drivers of BMWs, Mercs and other high performance cars really hated to be overtaken and would often make it their business to overtake me back. Yes, i know you can do 200+kph and i can only probably do about 150 but the point is i WANT to go a faster speed than you, deal with it! Now they move aside more willingly when they see my Honda badge in their mirror but quickly get pissed after i pass them and they see it's a Jazz! Ego thing, i guess...

Lemming

sparkthatbled wrote: »

The most dangerous thing, always see it on the m1, is when people in the left lane slowly catching up on a truck see you coming fast up the right lane and swerve out in front of you, forcing you to jam on the brakes because they didn't want the inconvenience of dropping from 85kph to 80kph for 5 seconds.

Actually see that quite a bit on UK motorways in general; be it the truck in front of them, or just substantial volume of traffic and they just pull right in front of you leaving just about kissing their rear bumper. Almost always without indicating (or indicating as they move, making the act of indicating irrelevant).

The truck thing doesn't get me as much as the sudden jumping of lane because your current lane isn't moving fast enough for you. At least with a truck in front of someone, you're alerted to the possibility that they might decide now is as good a time as any to change lane regardless of what's around them.

Idleater

I reckon those people see the road as a queue, and since they are "in front" of you in the queue, you should allow them to move between lanes :rolleyes:

Similar to the manic merging into the center/overtaking lane by crossing the hatching, or the slow dodderers that insist on just merging on top of you when a simple bit of acceleration or lack thereof would slot them comfortably in front or behind.

Joe10000

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

It's very noticeable if you have cruise control: sail along the motoray at a set speed, the same cars will pass and then slow down until you pass, then they'll catch up and do it again, and again.

The most extreme examples are usually answering their hand-held phones.

Could not agree more, cruise control really demonstrates how other drivers vary there speed so much and when you see a sudden drop in speed you just know the phone just rang, why can't people answer a call without slowing to a crawl ??

Zubeneschamali

Joe10000 wrote: »

why can't people answer a call without slowing to a crawl ??

It's often because they have to root around for their hand-held. Get a proper car kit, fool, or let them leave a message.

The number of idiots on the M4/M6 jamming on and pulling into the shoulder to talk on the phone is appalling. Your mobile ringing does not constitute an emergency!

bongi69

About a month ago was heading up the Blessington road, which was deserted. Came up opon a car doing about 50KMH, and when I got closer noticed it was a Lotus Exige. We were in the bendy bits, so was behind him at this speed until we got to a straight stretch, and I overtook him and proceeded to build back up to the speed limit
Next thing he roars past me leaning on the horn, and blasts off into the night. Obviously didn't take too kindly to a scrapbox Golf overtaking his pride and joy