Truckers

You're all bastards!


Coming back home down the M6 late at night.

Come upto roadworks, lane 2 & 3 closed off.

Nip into gap in lane 2. Indicate to move into lane 1.

Trucker hammers it up to close gap to nothing.

Wait a couple of secs, truck still blocking me.

Move up a truck, same thing. And again. And again. And again (x 5)

Eventually hoof it a few hundred yards and cut in before another one
has time to react.

I have never come across so many bad mannered fruckers in a row before,
what happened in the past 4 years since I did any motorway driving? I'm
not in a cunts car, its a Ovlov ffs!

</grumble mode>

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, frag

Sir needs to perfect the "LA Lane Change". Indicate in LA and the cunts
*will* close the gap, on principle. So (in the situation you describe)
you indicate *right*. The guy on the left relaxes, and you zap in front
of him. Easy.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"

 

'Company car' lane changes work too, no indicators then just keep
drifting across until somebody moves, or brakes leaving a gap.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, frag amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

1. He probably didn't see you, and
2. Motorcyclists are a fucking menace.

 

Volvos are driven by sushi eating yuppie scum.
--
Mike

SV650
UKRMMA#22
Skype: muddycat

 

Whinging Courier proposed

Feck me since when do they produce bikes? Are they like massive C1s?

 

I'd love to see you taking time out to explain that one to a hungry and
malevolent shark.

 

As put to me by an Australian:

"Me and sharks have an understanding. I stay out of the ocean, and
they stay out of the pub."

 

<snip>

I was thinking about Parisian cage drivers recently. In general they
don't act like drivers in the UK when (or if) they see bikers
filtering. Most of the time if (or when) they see filtering bikers,
they move over to make space.

Which is nice.

 

Yep.

Its only a volvo

<keeps pedal to the metal>


--

Kevin - Basildon
XV535
VOLVO FH12
GPZ305 (her's)
BOTAFOT#67 BOTAFOF#23
OSOS#29

 

Okay okay, I should have said, "Here the volvo is the choice of sushi
eating yuppie scum".
--
Mike

SV650
UKRMMA#22
Skype: muddycat

 

I'd say that the vast majority of drivers in the uk ( of those who do
anything at all when they see me) move over.

 

That's one of the things I like most about riding in France. To be fair
many UK drivers do too, but a small number like to move the other way &
block you. One did that to me on the M5 a few weeks ago. I'm not quite
sure why he thought his mirror would win a fight with my Tiger, but he
was very, very wrong.

 

Same old, same old...

I think it's fair to say that overall you're somewhat more likely to have
someone move over for you and much less likely to have someone try and block
you if you're riding in France (or Switzerland) compared with England.

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\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
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Never had the experience of that, when I rode in the UK.

 

Hmm, If they're anything like the Frog driver I encountered last time I
was there, stopped at traffic lights, the French knob in front of me
accidentally put the car in reverse. I started paddling back
(thankfully no one behind me) when I saw his rev. lights go on. Sure
enough, lights go green, he shoots back and brakes sharply.

Cue me shaking my fist at him and perfecting my gallic phrases.

That could have delayed me getting to the hotel :-/

Cheers

Paul.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, PeterT@Home amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

Whoooooooshhhh!!!!!

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Champ amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

That's 'cos they don't want you to bang your head on their paint work.

 

Ah, but notice my use of the word "general" That's how I had my
very first accident, as it goes. WVM (well blue actually) reversed
without seeing/looking at me onto my GS125.

Don't do what I did, when I first started learning French and call the
person concerned an "espèce de canard".

 

People-carrier of ducks?