![](./images/smilies/spacer.gif)
![](./images/smilies/spacer.gif)
Was stuck behind this old idiot in a rover doing 10mph in a 30 then 30mph in a 60, overtook him then came upto this other car doing about 35 in a 60.
![](./images/smilies/spacer.gif)
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
![](./images/smilies/spacer.gif)
![pale :pale:](./images/smilies/icon_pale.gif)
![](./images/smilies/spacer.gif)
![pale :pale:](./images/smilies/icon_pale.gif)
Moderators: IMOC Moderators, IMOC Committee Members
Steve-O 2007 wrote:Why do you get people who speed up when you start to overtake them???
Was stuck behind this old idiot in a rover doing 10mph in a 30 then 30mph in a 60, overtook him then came upto this other car doing about 35 in a 60.I was already carrying speed from the previous pass so thought sod it, nothing comming the other way and went for it then the idiot starts speeding up and closing the gap between him and the car infront!! Managed to get in but it was scary as Instead of having a nice big space to cut into I had to get right up the other cars ar$e so I could fit in making me look like a dick of a driver
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
rhamps wrote:on the other side of things i get really fed up with people going to overtake me when im going from 30 zone to national speed limit zone and they insist on trying to overtake just before the nation speed limit marker so they can get past but as you can imagine in most cases i just accelerate with out even trying and im getting abuse that i have stoped them overtaking.![]()
(I never do this dangerously though always make sure they have room to get back in behind me lol)
Tiamat wrote:rhamps wrote:on the other side of things i get really fed up with people going to overtake me when im going from 30 zone to national speed limit zone and they insist on trying to overtake just before the nation speed limit marker so they can get past but as you can imagine in most cases i just accelerate with out even trying and im getting abuse that i have stoped them overtaking.![]()
(I never do this dangerously though always make sure they have room to get back in behind me lol)
In those kind of situations I almost don't care if they got enough room or not.![]()
I am legally entitled to accelerate to the speed limit upon a change of limit.
![]()
If they have chosen to break the speed limit by starting to overtake and exceed the limit then I have no sympathy.
![]()
I am doing nothing illegal, it is up to them to ensure they get past safely.
![]()
I particularly love doing this on the bike, just drop a gear and open the throttle, leave them looking like numpties on the wrong side of the road.
dantheman wrote:ach dont get me started, someone did this to me on a motorway and nearly killed me.i was travelling down the M1 in low to medium traffic.
i was in the outside lane doing 80 when i closed on the back of a car doing 65.
after about half a mile of him not moving over into an empty middle lane i decided to go for an undertake.
i moved left, put my foot down
(in my 1.2L corsa) and pulled level with him.
he then preceded to put his foot down
(dont remember what the car was but it was
~2L so he had the legs on me).
i got up to about 95 and had only got about a car length in front of him.
as you can imagine i was spending as much time looking right and checking my mirror as i was looking forward.
it suddenly dawned on me id run out of room in the middle lane and had closed on a car doing 70, i slammed on the brakes swerved right and tucked in behind this 2L car, got on 2 wheels, steered into it, caught the verge, swerved left and ended up back in the middle lane.
and why? because some idiot wanted to do 65 in the outside lane and wouldnt move over.![]()
[/rant]
Martin F wrote:.
.
.
.for the whole journey he would sit in the fast lane at exactly the speed limit, making the point he had the right as that was the speed limit, end of as far as he was concerned.
.
.
![]()