Today a woman filtered past me... in her car.

[Lord Percy]

Nothing more than a rant really.

Casually going along a road, traffic wasn't insane, no queuing, no stress, just normal traffic on a normal road, all quite alright, everyone going at the speed limit. I always cut to the front if the traffic is dense, but here it was all going smoothly so I didn't even think of it.

And then, on this single lane road where I was 100% definitely going as fast as everyone else and I wasn't at all holding up the flow of traffic, a woman casually cruises past me! I mean she didn't 'nip' past, or zoom past to get in front. She just... happily went by in no hurry at all, as if there were two lanes available or something. No hurry, no concern, just casually arced around and tucked herself in front of me. There wasn't even anywhere to go for her after that. It was pointless. She overtook me with the same nonchalant style of a motorcyclist weaving to the front of slow-moving traffic.

Couldn't believe it! . Sadly I was turning off at the next set of lights so the best rage I could manage was a raised left hand of 'wtf' fury, and a long honking of the horn as I turned away.

And this road was full of little central reservation sorts of things where pedestrians would stand as they cross half the road, so it really 100% is not a place for cars to be overtaking in any way shape of form.

Mandatory paint diagram attached.

Andshewasclearlyfromanothercountry.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

What do you ride, and was your road position dominant enough?

If yes, probably just a twat. (The car driver, not the OP.)
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[Marmalade]

Had you filtered past her at any point?

Seems some people like to retaliate even though bikes are legal, cars are not.
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[Pete.]

[Sable]

[Lord Percy]

Yeah I was thinking I'd probably made her mad by filtering past her at some point earlier on, but still the way she went round me was just so carefree, there was no urgency to what she did, no rage, no desire to push back in front of me. It was just such a casual cruise around me, it made no sense whatsoever.

My bike is a normal sized bike, without L plates, my road position was fine. I saw her overtaking in my mirror so I actually did pull in a bit then, just as a standard reaction, but immediately my mind then began to whirl into a 'wtf' frenzy .

Just can't believe it happened. The main thing that surprises me is how that particular small section of road just isn't for overtaking at all. No driver of any level of sensibility would do it, specially in the calm, carefree way that she did.

I do think it's because she was foreign and thought it was normal. Just putting it out there. Nothing against foreigners, but clearly some will have habits from their own country's style of driving.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

If she was Italian then maybe.
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[Sable]

Hit post up there and something dawned on me.

I can count on one hand how many near misses I have had over the last few years. Have always put it down to having decent city road craft. This last month though I seem to have had some sort 'event' while riding every couple of days. Maybe its me? Maybe some things up with my road craft?

Maybe I am becoming the idiot people rant about?

May as well do something about it. Time to take the Bike Safe course I have been eyeing I guess.

[esullivan]

I had this happen to me a few weeks ago. A young woman in a Mini (the modern "Mini" that's the same size as a normal car) was following me so close behind that my daughter riding on the back could have leaned back on to her car. We're moving through dense high street traffic, with solid walls of parked cars either side (otherwise I would have pulled over and let her pass). She then overtakes me, in the middle of the high street, and nudges her way into the not-quite-car-sized slot in front of me. OK, what did that buy her? Less than a car length. I tried not to take it personally, until I went to slip passed her at the next set of lights and she speeds up and cuts me off.

WTF!

I pulled up along side her and said (calmly, I think. Remember, my daughter's on the back) that she's not driving safely. She flicks her hair at me and rolls up her window. We then proceeded on, her directly in front of me, going nowhere, until she turns into a Tesco parking lot a couple of miles down the road...

Completely pointless aggressive driving, for nothing. Since losing the L plates, I rarely run into people who are really anti-motorcycle and/or find a two-wheeler in front of them to be a personal insult. This was one of those.
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[esullivan]

[Rogerborg]

[stinkwheel]

I don't understand what the problem is here. So someone nonchalantly cruised past you then tucked back in without causing you to change your speed or course.

Why so serious?
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[esullivan]

[Lord Percy]

[Lord Percy]

[Rogerborg]

[ElBandido]

[stinkwheel]

[fox]

[esullivan]

[Tungtvann]

Some people's brains do not require logic before they carry out an action. This may have been one of those moments. Don't try and reason or question, just accept that person had a puff of air between their ears.

[Rogerborg]

[jetski]

some people just don't think about what their doing and bumble through life on auto-pilot. a couple of months back I was waiting in line at traffic lights, dead stop, single lane, small town, and a women, late 50s/early 60s drove up by the side of me. just casually pulled up by the side. she was just over the white line and couldn't get past me as I was only a few feet from the car in front. I shouted "what the fuck do you think your doing?" and she sort of made "what's the problem" gestures. I was right in the middle of the lane. I have no understanding of what she was trying to accomplish
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[bazza]

Hold the front page.

Car overtakes bike.

"This madness has to stop."
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