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Old Jan 17, 2006 | 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by 4stringMike
I cannot understand people that think it's big and clever to do this.

Accelerating when someone is alongside you in the process of overtaking, is one of the most dangerous things you can do on the road in my book
yes, ur right, i hate *******s who do that, thats shocking carry on in my books!! that aint racing
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Old Jan 17, 2006 | 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Awd Chaddy
Not sure what the guy has done wrong he is driving quickly until he reaches a built up area where he drives safely within the limit, then accelerates when he reaches the national speed limit sign!
LOL, textbook selection of data to prove the hypothesis - you'd never even know anyone else was there.

He knew the guy wanted to pass, he let him get alongside him then prevented him from completing his maneouvre by accelerating.

That situation is covered in the "fack that ****e, I know it all" code.
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Old Jan 17, 2006 | 06:52 PM
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yeah
wait for the lights to go then sit back and watch them take off, check one's hair, check all round observation for fed's. Right coast is clear then wap their **** to the next set of lights.

old enough to have more sense, what the hell, if the coast is clear & it's safe to do so, excersise your bhp & your competition clutch.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Old Jan 17, 2006 | 08:30 PM
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[quote=Rannoch]There is something better - and here it is (and I don't give a flying **** if it is a SIAL!)


Didn't see that one cumming!

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Old Jan 17, 2006 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by New_scooby_04
Actually, Pete, there is a greater pleasure than that!

You pull up at the lights, some twonk in a Nova pulls up next to you and says he's gonna *ahem* "blow you blood". By the way, is that a threat, challenge or offer of a sexual favour - I wish they'd at least speak English. Having spotted the police car a few cars behind, you just laugh and give a little burst on the throttle. Nova wheelspins of the line, you wait a few seconds for the police to tear past and then proceed on your way.

"Nova boi" is still being questioned by the police when you pass the junction on your way back.....

Priceless!!!
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My other favourite one is the snooper/ road angel 'get out of points free'

"Nova Boi" is right up your tail, no doubt using your slipstream as it wouldnt normally go that fast, you hoof it away so he drops a gear that gives him a 'lets go' signal, you back off slightly to give him some hope of reaching you, he sees his chance, he pulls out thinking hes actually beat a scoob, as you brake hard ... then its like christmas lights as the gatso gets him

You blast past him with a smug look
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Old Jan 17, 2006 | 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
Ha Ha Ha ..... it's the quiet pleasure that comes from knowing the other driver has made themselves look like a right **** - racing NOTHING

Pete
I do like egging them on into a lights grand prix then as you say watching them race nothing, I generally wouldnt waste my petrol or clutch on something that is a foregone conclusion
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Old Jan 17, 2006 | 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr_Creosote

However, most amusing of all was a road I used to drive down where it went down from national speed limit to 30mph through a small village for a mile or so - in the Scooby, with an idiot in a Calibra behind me (and on my bumper) I slowed down to 30mph on the nose as we entered the village. He's getting really agitated, weaving and swerving and waiting for an opportunity to get past me. Then, as we're on the straight exiting the village, the opposing traffic clears and he goes for it...pulls alongside me...then we exit the 30mph zone and I floor it in second and leave him on the wrong side of the road looking an idiot

Did chuckle a bit...
Hold on. Why is everyone getting on his case? Sounds to me as if the Calibra driver was being the dangerous one here.

If that had been me, and after watching the idiot weaving about on my rear bumper I'd be VERY tempted to do the same!
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Old Jan 18, 2006 | 01:17 AM
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Yeah love all of the above moves apart form the overtaking thing but favourite is the traffic light games. In Glasgow coming from city centre heading to south side it's a two lane road for over a mile but about 5 sets of lights. First set, first in line with Saxo beside. rev rev, off he goes. Along i go in 1st then 2nd all the way at about ten miles an hour and never have to stop, just getting to each light in turn as it turns. Just love watching him accelerate hard then brake all the time just until the last set when i breeze past him at 20-30 depending on my timing. Lurvely
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Old Jan 18, 2006 | 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by 4stringMike
I cannot understand people that think it's big and clever to do this.

Accelerating when someone is alongside you in the process of overtaking, is one of the most dangerous things you can do on the road in my book
I can imagine you saying it was dangerous if I had slowed down in a national speed limit and and then accelerated when someone tried to overtake me....

The fact was, I slowed down to the speed limit and had some tosser about 6 inches off my bumper (if I'd had to stop I'd have had him in my backseat!) ALL the way through the 30mph zone (and believe me, if not for oncoming traffic he'd have passed me there) and then accelerated (admittedly swiftly) once I hit the national speed limit section...
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Old Jan 18, 2006 | 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr_Creosote
I can imagine you saying it was dangerous if I had slowed down in a national speed limit and and then accelerated when someone tried to overtake me....

The fact was, I slowed down to the speed limit and had some tosser about 6 inches off my bumper (if I'd had to stop I'd have had him in my backseat!) ALL the way through the 30mph zone (and believe me, if not for oncoming traffic he'd have passed me there) and then accelerated (admittedly swiftly) once I hit the national speed limit section...
Been there, done it. I tend to stick pretty closely to speed limits in built up areas, but when the NSL signs are reached, it's a different matter. What do people expect you do do when you reach the NSL signs - keep going at 30? You're in a performance car, not a bloody Kia Pride!
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Old Jan 18, 2006 | 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr_Creosote
I can imagine you saying it was dangerous if I had slowed down in a national speed limit and and then accelerated when someone tried to overtake me....

The fact was, I slowed down to the speed limit and had some tosser about 6 inches off my bumper (if I'd had to stop I'd have had him in my backseat!) ALL the way through the 30mph zone (and believe me, if not for oncoming traffic he'd have passed me there) and then accelerated (admittedly swiftly) once I hit the national speed limit section...
I take your point that in this particular instance it wasn't all that dangerous if a bit risky, but how do you know that his car wouldnt have matched yours and remained alongside you for a distance?

In this situation if I really wanted to prove a point I'd have either floored it before he had a chance to start overtaking and left him behind, or let him go past and then stayed with him at a safe distance.

I dont mean to lecture mate, it's just my philosophy with w@nkers like this is "let 'em get on with it"
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Old Jan 18, 2006 | 11:00 AM
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Got to agree - Don't take it badly - were all here to share our experience and if we all learn something then all the better!... you should have let him get passed or been off the mark quick enough so he was behind you and then if he was quick enough let him overtake on a fair and clear understanding of 'private airstrip racing' rules...you wouldn't feel too good if he'd have had a head on now - only to find he was w*nker enough to also have had his 6 yearold in the back seat - seriously there are idiots like that out there...and also that whole scenario was unpredictable enough so that if you'd have slowed to let him past at a moment of crisis - he may well have thought 'there is no way this dick is going to let me by - so I'll slow too" - the consequences are too dire...

These days I even think twice about how hard I push (or pull) the nova boys - I'd hate to induce them into overcooking it - after all I have 20+ years of driving experience on them..I don't know about you but I was a crap driver at 20 - young,dumb and full of c*m as they say...

play solo or play safely is what I say..
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Old Jan 18, 2006 | 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by flynnstudio
Perhaps you should get a motorhome instead?

You can stop in motorway car parks, have your own fry ups, nice cup of tea, sit down and read a bit more of J.R Hartley's 'Fly Fishing' ?

AND you could still have the same 'traffic light' fun with other motorhome drivers - see which one of you refuses to move first ? Kind of like a mexican standoff - big turbo diesels engines revving flipping off the 4K limiter.. plumes of black smoke drifting lazily into the air, dogs barking madly at each other out the sidewindows, maybe put in some hydraulic air suspension so you can do bunny hops...the possibilities are endless...



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