Was I right to blow my top?

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:08:08 -0000, "Colin Blackburn"
wrote (more or less):

I was turning left and so I didn't signal
because of the road surface.

Errr... how does this work?
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:36:24 +0000, Gawnsoft
wrote:

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:08:08 -0000, "Colin Blackburn"
wrote (more or less):

I was turning left and so I didn't signal
because of the road surface.

Errr... how does this work?

Er, easily. I decided that keeping both hands on the bars was more in my
interests than signalling and that not signalling di not put anyone else
in danger. There are many circumstances under which I choose not to signal
for my own safety, this is one of them. Do you *always* signal?

Colin
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"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message . ..
On 8 Mar 2004 07:58:49 -0800, (Dave Kahn) wrote
in message :

When it gets to the point that they're alongside you, still hooting,
and are either going to mow you down or take out the traffic island,
the odds are they're not going to take out the traffic island.

And if you are already in the gutter you have nowhere to go. So you
take the lane, of course.

I agree, but in you previous post you said:

I hold the line, even when they start hooting. It is scary but
bullies are almost always cowards as well

My point was that if they get alongside you in spite of your taking
the line, ie. they are partly or wholly on the wrong side of the road,
and they look likely to crash unless you move over, either into you or
something else, that is the point at which you should probably move
over and brake hard.

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On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:52:15 -0000, "Colin Blackburn"
wrote (more or less):

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:36:24 +0000, Gawnsoft
t wrote:

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:08:08 -0000, "Colin Blackburn"
wrote (more or less):

I was turning left and so I didn't signal
because of the road surface.

Errr... how does this work?

Er, easily. I decided that keeping both hands on the bars was more in my
interests than signalling and that not signalling di not put anyone else
in danger. There are many circumstances under which I choose not to signal
for my own safety, this is one of them. Do you *always* signal?

Woops sorry - I read the earlier post as you also being in a car, for
a some weird reason.

Mind you, AFAICT I always signal when there are other road users
about.


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Gawnsoft wrote:

Mind you, AFAICT I always signal when there are other road users
about.

Usually I do too. But there are exceptions, often to do with steep
hills where use of the brakes is rather more necessary than waving to
other people that I'm about to turn left when it won't really affect
what they do one way or the other.

Pete.
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On 9 Mar 2004 06:03:57 -0800, (Dave Kahn) wrote
in message :

My point was that if they get alongside you in spite of your taking
the line, ie. they are partly or wholly on the wrong side of the road,
and they look likely to crash unless you move over, either into you or
something else, that is the point at which you should probably move
over and brake hard.

I am so accustomed to people pulling in when only halfway past that I
always cover the brakes anyway :-)

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:39:34 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:

I am so accustomed to people pulling in when only halfway past that I
always cover the brakes anyway :-)

I had a huge artic pull in on me today. I'm sure he thought he was
past but he was actually only about half way through the overtake. If
I hadn't braked he would have smeared me all over the kerb. I was
still on a slight high at the time from having been given a chocolate
button by one of a group of girls I had stopped for at a zebra
crossing. :-)

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"Dave Kahn" wrote in message
...
I was
still on a slight high at the time from having been given a chocolate
button by one of a group of girls I had stopped for at a zebra
crossing. :-)

On a high from the chocolate?

Simon

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:55:30 +0000, Dave Kahn
wrote in message :

I had a huge artic pull in on me today. I'm sure he thought he was
past but he was actually only about half way through the overtake.

Nasty.

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:03:36 -0000, "Simonb"
wrote:

"Dave Kahn" wrote in message
.. .
I was
still on a slight high at the time from having been given a chocolate
button by one of a group of girls I had stopped for at a zebra
crossing. :-)

On a high from the chocolate?

On a high from the friendly banter and the girly giggles. :-)

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