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General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: vorsprung on 17 March, 2010, 02:54:36 pm

Title: gems from the Highway code
Post by: vorsprung on 17 March, 2010, 02:54:36 pm
I noticed this rule today which is part of 167 (http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070314)

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167

DO NOT overtake where you might come into conflict with other road users. For example
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# stay behind if you are following a cyclist approaching a roundabout or junction, and you intend to turn left

How often does this annoying behaviour happen to you per day?
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: clarion on 17 March, 2010, 02:56:33 pm
Now the warm weather is coming, and drivers are starting to open their windows, I am considering having a few copies of the HC in my back pocket to post in on drivers who demonstrate ignorance and incompetence.
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: Moloko on 17 March, 2010, 03:01:27 pm
Now the warm weather is coming, and drivers are starting to open their windows, I am considering having a few copies of the HC in my back pocket to post in on drivers who demonstrate ignorance and incompetence.

Make the rule 167 into paper planes and wear them like a gun belt. 
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: andygates on 17 March, 2010, 03:31:10 pm
Ah, quoting the Highway Code to drivers.  The best way to declare yourself a whiney nebbish, bar none.

Drivers believe six impossible things break six rules before breakfast, what makes you think a rules violation will matter to them?
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: Regulator on 17 March, 2010, 03:33:16 pm
Ah, quoting the Highway Code to drivers.  The best way to declare yourself a whiney nebbish, bar none.

Drivers believe six impossible things break six rules before breakfast, what makes you think a rules violation will matter to them?

If you attach the copy of the Highway Code to a brick, then chuch it through their window (open or closed is irrelevant), they might just take some notice...   ;)
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: clarion on 17 March, 2010, 03:36:25 pm
Perhaps if I doused my HCs in petrol, set them alight, then put them through the window, do you think they would take notice?  After all, they seem happy to flick red-hot fag ash at me...
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: mattc on 17 March, 2010, 03:38:47 pm
You would think Vorsprung's example is redundant, as it is covered by Section A:

Don't drive like a cock.
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: clarion on 17 March, 2010, 03:40:01 pm
I rather feel that is a distillation of the whole work, and understanding of what will now become known throughout the ether as Mattc's Law would solve all our problems.
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: Moloko on 17 March, 2010, 03:46:25 pm
Perhaps if I doused my HCs in petrol, set them alight, then put them through the window, do you think they would take notice?  After all, they seem happy to flick red-hot fag ash at me...

Clarion, let 'em 'ave it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n1hKQULa9Y#t=3m45s)   ;D
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: Jaded on 17 March, 2010, 03:51:52 pm
My HC is very clean and you'll net be getting any germs from it.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: Karla on 17 March, 2010, 04:08:00 pm
Perhaps if I doused my HCs in petrol, set them alight, then put them through the window, do you think they would take notice?  After all, they seem happy to flick red-hot fag ash at me...

Just install photocopies of the relevant pages in the hollow points of the rounds in your handlebar mounted machine gun(s).
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: clarion on 17 March, 2010, 04:11:49 pm
I find the miscreants don't stay ahead long enough to get a bead.  Generally, they get stuck in a queue & I go past  :smug:
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: Karla on 17 March, 2010, 04:19:11 pm
It sounds to me like you need a tail end charlie.  That would also be a reason to justify a CTCish yet useful wing mirror on your bike.
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: andygates on 18 March, 2010, 12:36:03 pm
Tailgunner.  Suddenly, stoker is cool.   8)
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: MattH on 18 March, 2010, 12:54:46 pm
Tailgunner.  Suddenly, stoker is cool.   8)

Then you need one of those back to back recumbent tandems; where the pilot has the handlebars, the tailgunner has their gun mount.

It may induce motorists to leave a little more clearance on overtakes.
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: alexb on 18 March, 2010, 05:14:46 pm
I've often fantasized about making up a mock set of tailguns mounted on a rear rack, motorized and connected to a PIR detector so that they motion track, or appear to....
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: teethgrinder on 18 March, 2010, 07:20:57 pm
Tailgunner.  Suddenly, stoker is cool.   8)

Or gay.
Title: Re: gems from the Highway code
Post by: spindrift on 18 March, 2010, 07:32:12 pm
Carve "167" into the motorist's forehead like Christopher Waltz.