On 07/06/2010 3:04 PM, scott wrote:

>> the car behind, in my rear view mirror. The other thing I forgot to
>> mention are those drivers who overtake you and pull in about 4 feet in
>> front of you.
>
> So long as they are going faster than me (so the gap is increasing) I
> don't mind that so much.

Right!

> Another thing which is funny is the people who
> overtake you, pull back in, and then slow down forcing you to overtake
> them back!
>

You call that funny?
LOL

>> Yes every couple of minutes is OK, I was being imprecise. It is the

>> pulls out into the RH lane. Overtakes and returns into the LH lane
>> only to repeat the manoeuvre 10 seconds later that gets on my wick.
>
> Yeh that's an unnecessary risk to take, generally if I can see that
> nobody is behind me I don't pull back over unless it is quite a big gap
> (ie I wouldn't actually be overtaking anyone for the next 2 minutes). If
> there is a car behind me I usually try to estimate how quickly he will
> pass me if I move over (you can usually tell quite well from how quickly
> they approached you). If the driver is obviously wanting to go pretty
> quickly and looks like he has a powerful car then I'll move over into a
> quite a small gap, knowing that I can probably pull back out again
> pretty soon without having to slow down at all.
>
>

Good driving IMO.

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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