Driving standards

Tommy Chong said:
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All's good TT. As long as everything worked out for you in the least, most uncomplicated way, with no further issues or frustrations, mate. ;)
At least the lad riding the bike was understanding and amicable about the whole situation. It could have been so much more worse... :oops:

Years ago, I was stuck on the highway in bumper to bumper rush hour traffic. There was absolutely no movement at all.

I was sitting in the far right-sided fast lane, And getting flustered, I decided I'd merge into the middle lane, on my left. All was clear, so I clicked on my indicator, and I started merging into the middle lane, but I didn't see a bike rider coming up fast behind me in-between the two lanes. As I was about to go, I heard a loud fist thump on my rear windscreen!

I immediately stopped and looked over my left shoulder, only to see an angry, fuming biker gang hell's angel type staring right back at me!
He gave me the 'throat slitting' hand gesture before moving on. I almost sh.t a brick in my kecks, before I saw the jarg biker gang name on the back oh his leather jacket as he passed me. Not a chance I'd remember the name, but it was something like: 'Satan's Crusaders' or whatever 😂.

He did look like the real deal, though.
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If bikers are going to squeeze between lanes then the very least they should do is always ride with their headlight(s) on. They might think they're knights of the road but the roads are built for kings and queens, not knights.
 

TyphooToffee said:
Bye-bye baby, baby bye-bye

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I can't see the bonnet, but that hardly looks like a write-off, mate...

Insurance companies are quick to scrap motor vehicles with slight damages like that. Bet you, they're going to fix it up and re-sell it themselves, lol 😂.

TyphooToffee said:
If bikers are going to squeeze between lanes then the very least they should do is always ride with their headlight(s) on. They might think they're knights of the road but the roads are built for kings and queens, not knights.
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This bloke was a 🔔🔚 of the highest calibre, though TT.

Late 40's, overweight, long beard, covered in tattoo's, oh and a German Nazi WWII replica helmet on his pip, as opposed to a normal biker's helmet, so you can imagine. 🙄
 
Alan Whittle said:
Ironic really, as I live in Wiltshire and feel the same about it as you do about London.
The up/down the motorway is map based but really I suppose from west to east it’s neither.
Where is the “pro London propaganda”btw? I never see any.
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I'm in wilts too! Up north.

Propaganda was a poor word. I mean how London gets everything, theatre arts, museums etc the nation pays fir it all, Londoners benefit. I'm not a fan of the favouritism. Such things would be better off spread around, or somewhere more central in the uk.
 
Waiting to turn right at a filter light and the prick behind me beeping when the straight ahead light turned green. I stuck my hand out of the window pointing at the red light until it changed to a green arrow pointing right.

And coming the opposite way at the same spot when the prick on the other side of the road turns into the path of oncoming traffic in the mistaken belief that the light that has just turned green means anything to the lane he is in.
 

Bryan+ said:
People don’t seemingly understand how to wait behind a parked car on your side of the road, just swerve into oncoming traffic mate and make me move.
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I was just listening to someone at work moan about the very same thing. Yep. Fully agreed with him and you. It doesn't wind me up that much as there are just so many cars parked on narrow roads that are busy and visibility of oncoming traffic can be absolute &%$£.
 
Noisy noise annoys said:
Genuinely think all the delivery drivers, food and Amazon type thing, will be the end of our relatively high standards. Stop where you want, get out on a main road, no indication, hammer round in first, anything goes. It’s like bad parenting … it becomes the norm
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My wife gets infuriated when they park across our path entrance - it's a busy road and all the pavements have a grass verge at the roadside making the entrance ways the only parkable bit if you don't want to cause an obstruction on the road. I must admit, I did get annoyed at first but so many do it to drop stuff off here that I can't muster anything more than a shoulder shrug now.
 
Yarrgh said:
My wife gets infuriated when they park across our path entrance - it's a busy road and all the pavements have a grass verge at the roadside making the entrance ways the only parkable bit if you don't want to cause an obstruction on the road. I must admit, I did get annoyed at first but so many do it to drop stuff off here that I can't muster anything more than a shoulder shrug now.
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Thus becoming acceptable, normal behaviour ?!
 

Tommy Chong said:
I can't see the bonnet, but that hardly looks like a write-off, mate...

Insurance companies are quick to scrap motor vehicles with slight damages like that. Bet you, they're going to fix it up and re-sell it themselves, lol 😂.
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I was quite happy with how it turned out.Yesterday I bought a 2012 '62-plate Focus Titanium 1.6 auto with 52k miles, plus 12 months insurance (now up to £800 from £400), all for the insurance payout for the Fiesta. So I have a car two years younger, with 10k less miles and a better spec (speed limiter as well as the cruise control I already had, and rear parking sensors that I didn't) than the Fiesta. Drove beautifully home Hounslow to Sidcup - half the length of the M25. One or two minor imperfections but you'd expect that, considering the price for low mileage.

On the minus side, and you couldn't make this up, Mrs TT's beautiful, beloved baby, her Peugeot 207CC, was reversed into by a van that was trying to avoid being backed into by a reversing car transporter as we were queueing by the Cobham services exit onto the motorway on the way to Hounslow. She was distraught and in tears because her insurance company said the third party insurance would write-off her car.

It's all sorted now. She's not claiming - the damage was less than the damage to the Fiesta - and, despite having to register the accident, her insurance is less than before as I've taken a two-person RAC recovery, meaning she needn't have it added to her policy.

Apart from all that, everything is hunky dory.
 

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