Some moron on the road tonight.........

[phatstorage]

Exits the 2 lane roundabout onto a 2 lane dual carriageway in the outside lane, then proceeds to travel in the outside lane for just under a mile at 36 in a 40, The inside lane is totally empty, I sit behind her with my badly adjusted HID hoping she'd move into the inside lane, no chance.

At the traffic lights she moves into the right filter lane without indicating, I'm going straight on so I draw level with the idiot, we both stop and I give the pair in the car a shake of my head in disapproval, the car then sounds it's horn (this is after midnight by the way), I look at the two punks in the car, the window's down and the ignorant ones are ready to communicate.

I jump in with "why were you in the outside lane?", the answer was "your light is so bright.....blah.....blah" not interested,
I asked the same question, to be met with silence, shortly followed by "your light was too bright" my retort of "so move over, then I can pass you" fell on deaf ears.

The passenger, trying to defend the driver in some way knowingly asks what the speed limit was, I said "40, and you were doing 36 in the outside lane" , the lights changed and I went on my way.

And the reason why I didn't overtake on the inside and neither did anyone else, it was a metropolitan police patrol car.

I counted 3 offences in 1 minute, one of which is points/fine now I think.

I thought cops where supposed to set an example

Sorry if this sounds anal, I know we all make mistakes, but defending your actions when they are blatantly wrong is what really pisses me off, can't be dealing with ignorance like that I'm afraid.

Wish I had my drift on me.

Rant done.

[Eddie Hitler]

I'm sure you can report the incident somehow? Although I doubt it would amount to much.

[Quornholio]

[Sable]

Do you actually have a badly fitted HID? Not sure if your joking about it with the smiley.

If you do, I have been left in positions before when some cunt with a super bright HID has left my mirrors useless, and of the opinion changing lanes would be dangerous as I was unable too see if something was coming along at speed in the lane next too / behind me.

Copper may have been a cunt, but anyone with a badly fitted HID should be shot.

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[P.addy]

You can use whatever lane you want to "overtake" although getting pulled by Mr 5-0 for doing so was lulzy.

[Dave70]

A few months ago, I was riding behind a police van for a couple of miles. Did he use his indicators once at any junction, or even on a roundabout? Did he hell as like. It did annoy me to the point, that I considered pulling up along side and having a word. Then I figured that the only possible outcome of doing such a thing, would be for it to bring some unwanted attention and hassle to myself. So I let it be and carried on.

[phatstorage]

The HID was fitted by an alarm fitter at the same time as fitting an alarm and other bits, I rode it home in the daytime and only last night on my way back from work did I notice the massive misalignment, totally agree about the being a cunt part but it was either fiddle around in park lane adjusting it when I don't know where the screw is or just get it home and sort it out today.

The copper had all the opportunity she needed to move into the inside
lane, as I said before she exited the roundabout in the outside lane, so her intentions of staying out seemed quite clear, I moved into the inside lane at first giving plenty of time and room, so any reason for not being able to see to change lanes was also taken care of early on, after a while I became bored and decided to bully her with my shit light


I know it's not an offence to "undertake" if safe to do so, knowing how misinformed cops can be and at that time of night, looking for any excuse because they're bored, I decided to not give them any reason to try and pull me, though in hind sight, the bullying of the high beam would have been a good enough reason, I'd liked for them to pull me though, then we can have a chat on how many highway codes I broke verses how many she broke.

[G]

An overly bright and poorly adjusted headlight makes it hard to determine the vector of the vehicle, especially on a bike. So it can be hard to judge if you can safely manoeuvre around such a vehicle because you don't really know what they're doing.
Seems like you were lucky they didn't just do you for that then and there.

[Rogerborg]

Par for the course, I live near a police training college and treat copmobiles with the same caution as white vans and Micras.
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[tbourner]

Retrofitting HID bulbs revokes the e-mark of the headlight, so technically it's illegal to use on the road in the EU - I'd have overtaken on the inside personally.
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[Christoffee]

Maybe a stupid Q, but what is undertaking? Simply passing on the left?

Dual carriage way, I'm in left-hand lane doing 70, plonker in right-hand-lane doing 55. If I continue on my way am I undertaking?

Doesn't the highway code say move left to allow traffic to make progress? Were they committing an offence?

EDIT: https://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/lane-discipline-264-to-266

Does same apply to a 2-lane A road?

EDIT: https://www.gov.uk/general-rules-all-drivers-riders-103-to-158/multilane-carriageways-133-to-143

Rule 137.
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[EazyDuz]

I thought HIDs are illegal on any motor vehicles unless fitted with an auto levelling system, so if you are driving up a hill for example they will dip lower so as not to burn the retinas of oncoming drivers.
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[stinkwheel]

ITT. Much confusion over which is the inside lane and which is the outside lane.

The clue is in the name, the outside lane is on the outside.
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[Bunny Lingus]

Phuck 'em!
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[-Matt-]

No idea if it was the case in this incident - but i've had occasions were various vehicles with badly adjusted/overly powerful HID lights have literally blinded my entire rear visibility.

Quite possible the driver was blinded everytime they attempted to check in their mirrors or look behind and determine if it was clear to move across to the left lane.

Fair enough you were taking it home to adjust it if you didn't know how, but could very well be the reason they didn't shift out the way. I'd much rather be on the road with someone blocking a lane than someone blinding everything in front and oncoming

Personally I hate HID's and think they're generally dangerous - theres various 'bright/white' bulbs that make a bit of a difference to the brightness of your lights without turning vehicles into a lighthouse