Cagers trying to "out drive" you

[dodsi]

Seems to be happening a lot with me recently.

I come up behind them and they speed up and try and take "lines" around the corners etc...meanwhile I am sat behind them waiting for the next overtaking opertunity.

1) Your VW Jetta is not faster than my ZX6R

2) You cant drive for shit anyways

I wish they would get over it, I wasnt trying to race in the first place Just want to get to where I am going too (i.e. ride at about 70 non stop on the way home from uni down a peice of A road I know quite well)

I just try and ride at 1 speed being smooth in this weather, its certainly not as fast as I am capable of going.

Its only when I get behind these people that they speed up and try to stop me overtaking. At this point I take the bait as I think...sod it not like I can loose to this ford mondeo.

Soon as a safe place to overtake and bam Im passed then they slow down.

Whats the point?

[T1z3R]

gives them a rush.
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[Type_Mo]

They get soo insacure when we go to overtake
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[mr.z]

Yeh its all very said..

More annoying when they are pootleing at 40 on a national limmit on a totaly empty straight road (fair enough, 40 is fast enough for some) you ovetrtake them giveing plenty of space suddenly...
Oh noez a motehbike has teh overtaken me, i'll prove the size of my penis is great by speeding up loads!
Then they are pelting allog as fast as they can't cope with to prove their astra is the most amazeing vehicle known to mankind

Being outrun by the 80's quater of a ton lump seems to upset them just as much as a sportsbike screeming past.. where i couldn't give the faintest shit if they can go faster
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[McGee]

You aint seen nothing till a 87 Ford Crown Victoria thinks its faster than you

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Its pronounced Jixxer!

[wristjob]

i get the same thing from bikers when i want to pass them in the van.
they go quick on the straight bits and go really steady through the curves.
then i get it from cars when im out on the bike.
so i recon its not car drivers and its not bike riders.
its just that most people on the road are shit regardles of what they drive/ride.
and once you accept that as a fact then idiots dont surprise you because you were expecting a twats manouver.
it gives you a calm feeling while riding/driving and helps me through the mundane crap that is the working day

[wristjob]

[Keen]

[Dan 4RR]

No one cares about the lamer ford crown victoria

[McGee]

Viva I know you dislike the fact I live in America but I can complain about people here like I would in the uk

So stfu and leave me alone.

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Yes they are very ugly cars and get aboot 12 mpg
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Its pronounced Jixxer!

[dodsi]

I overtook a guy in a ford fiesta Zetec thing And thought nothing of it, but when he caught up with me as I was slowing down too turn into a road to go home I thought "oh he was trying to keep up" so cancelled my indicator and gave it some, slowed down let him catch up then zoom off again, turned around in a village and on the way back he gave us a friendly wave and I did the same.

But he was wanting to go fast in the first place, its the people who were not that piss me off, its a waste of their petrol.

[McGee]

Zetec's are nippy little bastards
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Its pronounced Jixxer!

[yambabe]

You have to remember that someone who is in a car and only drives a car will think you need as much room and time as a car to overtake them.

So just maybe, when you catch them up, they think that you haven't got the time or space to get past so they'd better go a bit faster to avoid holding you up or try to stop you tailgating them?

Anyone who rides a bike themselves will normally slow down and pull to the left if they see a clear overtaking opportunity ahead for a bike just behind them, anyone who doesn't will see a bike up their arse & think "God I'd better get away from this nutter".
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[EllioTT_GiXXeR]

I get it every day, mostly 5 kids in a 1.4 car made by the french.
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[akaDAVE]

I think most of the time it is just people having fun.
I know I used to try to goad bikes into going quick just for the spectacle.
I saw someone in a 1.8 3 series (gay compact) yesterday shoot off like a bat out of hell when he saw me in his rear view. He must have got up to about 90 (in a 50 zone) by the time he had to slow for a roundabout.
Anyone would have thought I was waving a gun at him.]

At least it shows that they've seen you. I prefer that to a 90 year old blind woman driving her honda civic at 20mph in front of me.
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[riichy]

i juat normaly laff....and then shout out to them that they just got ownd by a 33BHP 400cc bike
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[spitfire]

I've had it a few times where the chav boys in their Saxo/Nova have floored it when they see me on the bike come up behind them. Normally they are 1.1L cars which probably have a 0-60 time of 15 seconds, add the oversized exhaust pipe, spoiler kit, max power stickers, anodised crap and their mates with 1/2 oz of resin in their pockets sat in the rear and the 0-60 time will be down to 17 sec, why on earth would they think they could outrun a bike with 100+ HP ? FFS I could beat them on a C90.

The time that really baffled me (and pissed me off) was one night I was in the car on the way home, I had been for a meal with Mrs spitfire and it was late on a Saturday so I wanted to get back home before last orders, I was in the car and was going at a fair pace, I over took a MKII Golf which was only doing about 30mph, I swiftly went around a roundabout and on the exit I noticed the Golf came right up behind me, too close for comfort, so I indicated and slowed down but so did he, so I went back up to the speed I was doing and joined the dual carriageway, the Golf raced past me on the slip road and off it went, sometime later I came up behind the golf doing about 50, I went to overtake it and guess what it speeded up! This happened again, I was getting pretty pissed off so I pulled into a lay-by and waited for a bit, what a c*nt, surely it was clear I didn’t want a race? F8cking missed last orders as well.

[Crazy Manx Man]

I eat R1s for fun.

[RealNinja]

[spitfire]

[dainesefreak]

[Method]

The funniest example of this happened 2 days ago, i had stopped at a petrol station with my g/f on the back and my mate riding his Divvy. I had just put the pump back on the rack and started to get off my bike to go pay, when this blue rover metro starts wheel spinning and thrashes out of the station, my mate on his divvy grabs his lid and starts following him.

None of us realised (my mate had just taken off after him for a bit of fun cos he looked like a boy racer), but the metro hadnt actually payed for his fuel.

Now this metro must have thought he was shifting some and loosing the bike, because he was taking racing lines and straightening out bends on the other side of the road at 50mph... Now i dont know what those cars handle like ,but racing lines at 50? I was pissing myself, all to get away from my mates Divvy. He got bored, rode passed him 1 handed at 70 , turned round, went back to the petrol station and waved back at the car as he passed it again.

Made me chuckle.

Aswell as that i get random cars from college with their stupid wings on the back that make it look like the car is about to take off, trying to beat me down the 30 limits... of course they do it because its a 30 limit and i aint speeding, but as soon as we hit the dual carraigeways they are forced to make way for my GS500e That always makes me chuckle.
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[mr.z]

[the grim reaper]

My favourite one was when I was sat at the front of a set of lights in the inside lane on my old Blackbird. A porsche came booting it down the outside lane as the lights changed. He got a rolling start, I got a standing start, guess who won to the 100 mark?

I also had a woman try to race me in her Nissan 350Z when I was on the Blade. They might have 287 Bhp but it really doesn't matter in a car that weighs 1.5 tonnes.

I felt like getting off and giving her a maths lesson:

287/1.5=191.3 bhp/tonne
125/0.3=416 bhp/tonne

That's why I kicked your arse

Cheers

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