Thread: Road Rage

let them pass, I say .

No use having your own safety compromised by some moron doing something stupid.

why is pi**ing someone else off so pleasurable.

are you the ones who speed up once you get to the overtaking lanes

My personal favourite is the Handbrake, No lights no warnings just wait for the bang.

Especially good if you have something needing fixing at the rear of your vehicle.

are you the ones who speed up once you get to the overtaking lanes

they should change the name to drag lanes

Originally Posted by Yabbie

My personal favourite is the Handbrake, No lights no warnings just wait for the bang.

Especially good if you have something needing fixing at the rear of your vehicle.

Yeah but thats no good in a Landy you would rip the transmission to bits if you yanked it on at speed. Is good in any other car though.

I agree with you on the speeding up when they get to an overtaking lane trick, ****s me off to.

Glad Im not the only one who gets this treatment, my solutions to tailgaters is to slow down end keep an eye on em in the rearview, when they crane their necks round to try and see past my center line hugging deefer, drop 5th to 4th let the engine do the braking till they look to the the front.

Then tap the brakes and get back on the noise pedal, Most idiots get the message first time around, plus the look on their face is just priceless almost to the point of me wanting fit a reversing camera and have it on at all times.

Hi,
I was introduced to a caper when living in sydney that in hindsight could have been very nasty.
Here's the deal.
Pull up behind someone at lights in the lane next to the turn lane. If peak hour, or morning rush chances are they will let their eyes wander and lapse concentration, Eg adjust undies, scan paper, take a mouthful of coffee, answer phone etc. If they have their heads turned away from the action when the turning lane gets to go, just give a short 'come on the lights changed' beep on your horn. Had many a sydney folk quickly press the go lever before realising a few seconds and metres later that they shouldn't have gone at all.
Funny as but in hindsight could have been tragic.

Ralph

My road rage incident was when I came across an infuriating trio of halfwits on the Bells Line of Road last weekend. For those that don't know it, it's a winding, hilly road with some tight bends linking Richmond and Lithgow. Single lane 95% of the way, very few opportunities to overtake unless you're in a Lambourgini or there are no highway patrol around.
Trio is headed by some woman, in a Mazda peoplemover, who has nowhere to go in a hurry and apparently a pathological fear of corners. She's travelling 15 to 20kph below the speed limit and brakes on every bend - even when it's uphill!
Right behind her is some bubble car with a bubble-head driving whose only notion of overtaking is to get as close as possible to the car in front, then maybe they will.... I don't know... slip underneath?
Third in the conga is a guy who would really like to overtake but is not sure he has the accelleration to do it so he hangs back on the bends and closes up on the straights. Which doesn't help me at all because I actually do want to get past them and if he left the gap I could have overtaken him on the first straight and had a fighting chance at the other two on the next one. But oh no! Hang back, close up. Hang back, close up. ad nauseum.
Finally an overtaking lane! Guy No.3 takes 200m to figure out No.2 is clueless and going to do nothing and eventually he pulls out and gets past them both. I'm already flooring the accelerator at this point but it's slightly uphill and my diesel disco isn't the fastest thing on an incline. As Guy No.3 goes past he must have triggered something in No.2's brain and they realise that with two lanes going in the same direction they can go round the object in front of them! They pull out just quickly enough to prevent me getting in the lane and, of course, they get alongside the velocity challeged No.1 just as the overtaking lane ends. So they both slow down and come to a complete halt because they're just not sure which one ought to go first. They must be polite people. Polite people with no idea what's going on in the world around them.
Having got the Disco up to 100kph I now have to get it back down to zero fairly bloody sharply because of these brain-dead excuses for a road-user. The horn was used at some point... and for quite some time!
Strangely, I feel better now.

Originally Posted by DiscoDave

My road rage incident was when I came across an infuriating trio of halfwits on the Bells Line of Road last weekend. For those that don't know it, it's a winding, hilly road with some tight bends linking Richmond and Lithgow. Single lane 95% of the way, very few opportunities to overtake unless you're in a Lambourgini or there are no highway patrol around.
Trio is headed by some woman, in a Mazda peoplemover, who has nowhere to go in a hurry and apparently a pathological fear of corners. She's travelling 15 to 20kph below the speed limit and brakes on every bend - even when it's uphill!
Right behind her is some bubble car with a bubble-head driving whose only notion of overtaking is to get as close as possible to the car in front, then maybe they will.... I don't know... slip underneath?
Third in the conga is a guy who would really like to overtake but is not sure he has the accelleration to do it so he hangs back on the bends and closes up on the straights. Which doesn't help me at all because I actually do want to get past them and if he left the gap I could have overtaken him on the first straight and had a fighting chance at the other two on the next one. But oh no! Hang back, close up. Hang back, close up. ad nauseum.
Finally an overtaking lane! Guy No.3 takes 200m to figure out No.2 is clueless and going to do nothing and eventually he pulls out and gets past them both. I'm already flooring the accelerator at this point but it's slightly uphill and my diesel disco isn't the fastest thing on an incline. As Guy No.3 goes past he must have triggered something in No.2's brain and they realise that with two lanes going in the same direction they can go round the object in front of them! They pull out just quickly enough to prevent me getting in the lane and, of course, they get alongside the velocity challeged No.1 just as the overtaking lane ends. So they both slow down and come to a complete halt because they're just not sure which one ought to go first. They must be polite people. Polite people with no idea what's going on in the world around them.
Having got the Disco up to 100kph I now have to get it back down to zero fairly bloody sharply because of these brain-dead excuses for a road-user. The horn was used at some point... and for quite some time!
Strangely, I feel better now.

Lemmings, quite simple just call them Lemmings