F**cking BMW drivers!

[Grendel]

Picture this I’m travelling down hill in one lane where coming up the hill is 2 lanes so you can over take slow lorries going up the hill but all cars are in the Left lane so I have a free road space and 200M visibility to pull past the car that wanting me to over take it since it kept slowing and pulling to the side and waving me past. So check the road 200 m visibilities nothing behind me. Mirror signal manoeuvre and as I pull out I’m along side the car on my side of the road and the idiot BMW man pulls out swerving towards me. So had no option but to go for the gap and I passed the car on my side the same time BMW passes the car and I’m in the middle of both with inches either side of the two way cars. Bit of a brown trouser moment there folks.
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[Mord]

In Northamptonshire 99% of BWM drivers are tits.. They drive like rules don't apply to them.. They try to race you from the lights everytime and make me laugh really.

[R6jonny]

[the grim reaper]

I had something similar a few years back, riding down a two way single carriageway road and some t**t in a Vulva, going the other way, pulls out to overtake without looking. I avoided him on the two foot strip of tarmac between the carriageway and the storm drain to my left. Not. Impressed.

That was about the first time I ever thought about turning round and going after someone but the traffic was too heavy to do a u-turn.

Cheers

Grim
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[wizzzard]

I dont think its just BMW drivers that act in this manner. For me it seems to be anyone who drives or indeed rides a vehicle they deem to be better or more powerful than those around them. Audi's and BMW's do seem to be the main culprits in this area although the porche cayenne drivers are catching up with them very quickly in the numtiness stakes. I'v never seen a badly driven Jag yet though.
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[doggone]

Mercs are well up that list.
Sometimes upmarket 4x4s too.

[bazza]

[the grim reaper]

[Smooth]

[yuri2085]

Haha I like 'chicken lane', theres one near box hill and I usually use it to overtake but one day I was thinking about an overtake and I looked ahead and there were no cars down the whole road, 2 sec later WHOOSH going at least 110 black sports car I shat my pants.


Btw dont indicate when overtaking, it can be very confusing and you havnt been taught to do it.

You wern't changing lanes (You went to opposite side of road?) so it is not generally worth indicating unless theres a specific person you need to tell youare pulling out (eg a motorbike behind you who looks like he wants to overtake too and is very agressive)

[Nipedley]

A good section of the A30 is like that too, I've had similar issues having to sandwich between cars when one decides to overtake and not look

The worst thing is when a car does this vs another car. Saw this happen a few months ago and they missed by inches. Always figure if they did meet I'm gonna get hit by the shrapnel

[Marcg868]

We'll add VW Golfs & Passats to that list. Their is no reason to drive so agressivley. And then they moan because someone confronts them for driving acting like a cocky shit.
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[The Disapproving Brit]

[alone]

200m visibility? At 40mph that'll only take 11sec to cover.
So, even if it was a 30mph road, and you're doing the limit, another driver comes the other way at say, 50mph (as BMW 'always speed'), it's only going to take 5.59s to make contact.

How fast were you going? Cus I'll bet it was more than 30mph
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[Villers]

We have a lot of 'chicken lanes' this way. Most of them look clear but if theres something big coming the other way I wouldnt dare use it as there could be someone waiting behind it to get past.

I once heard them described at a bikesafe event as 'Nearside, offside, suicide'
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[iooi]

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[arry]

Why did Mr BMW pull out? To overtake something in his nearside lane perhaps?

[Rottweiler]

round my way biggest nobs are in RS/ST focus's and saxos vtr/vts
see them trying to race bigger bikes alot......they have as much chance as my cg125.
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[headlamp]

I was knocked off by a BMW X5 doing a U turn without looking - fortunately I was not going fast otherwise I would be dead - the guy said he was a bike rider so was upset - obviously not a good one otherwise he would have checked his mirror for filtering bikes.
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[Rob]

[Grendel]

[arry]

[Grendel]

[alone]