Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > What people do when they're driving!

[BDG]

How i wish i was AndyB at times, hmmm maybe not after all.

When using the bike geting to work i've noticed drivers in cars doing all sorts of mad things recently.

Not just using hand held mobile phones (question, why if you've spent £50,000 on a top of the range motor why haven't they got a hands free kit
Can't afford it?)

Or girls doing their make up whilst driving, these 2 are quite common, but in the last few days i've seen someone reading a magazine, looking at an A to Z, doing a feckin crossword at the steering wheel whilst in traffic, and using a laptop.

Some of these instances have been in slow traffic whilst i'm filtering (safely on one wheel at 70 mph of course) others have been at motorway speeds.

OK i can hear someone say i should be keeping my eye on the road ahead and not the cars at the side of me, but when the car is wandering about you tend to have a look at what the danger is.

Its absolutely barmy what some drivers get upto, really wish i could nick some of them. Sorry rant over.

Anyone else spooted some really dodgy practices as well?

[khushy]

"(safely on one wheel at 70 mph of course)"

[khushy]

I went past a total moron on the M4 last week who was in an M3 - READING THE PAPER whilst undertaking me - he had the whole thing out in his lap holding it with both hands!!!

What a tosser!

[Ozz]

Totally agree Shaun. I notice it so much more when on the bike.

The worst thing I saw this week on the way to the Quay was a driving instructor - teaching our kids the right way to drive - happily driving along on the mobile and weaving all over the road.

A police friend of mine agrees with the law I think should be brought in:

If you see someone on the mobile you can drag them out of the car, ram the phone up their arse and if they can still carry on the conversation then they get to keep the phone......

[Jools]

I was driving back home, northwards past Junction 8 on the M1. It was around 7pm in the middle of the Friday evening rush and the weather was so bad that it was one of those torrential downpours where your wipers are on full speed and still fighting a losing battle. It was also dark. Just seeing where you were going was a white knuckle job. The traffic was the typical stop-go traffic that gets up to about 40mph and then comes to a sudden halt.

A guy in a Rover came past me in the outside lane with the interior light on and I saw that he had a book on his steering wheel and was reading it. It wasn't just a glance, he was intent on reading and flipping the pages over as if he was in his armchair at home. He must've been driving just on his peripheral vision and his concentration in those conditions was just about zero. It was one of the only times that I've taken someones number and pulled into the nearest police station to report them.

The thing that really gets me is how lazy people get with their indicators. I got carved up by a Mercedes convertible by a guy that didn't use his indicators once in a journey of 30 miles. I wasn't following him, we were both going the same route by coincidence. It was a warm day and I had the roof down on my car as well as he did.

Just by chance, we reached some traffic lights where our route was obviously diverging. He was in the right turn lane as I wanted to go left, but by chance we were queued up side by side. So I looked across at him and said "Nice car mate, how much did it cost?", "About 35K" he replied. So I said "You know, on cars that cost that much you'll find there's a stalk near the steering wheel and if you flip it up or down it'll make lights flash on the side of your car that let other drivers know where you're going instead of haveing to use fecking telepathy"

[TopiToo]

Hello

the best one's I have seen,

somebody going around a roundabout on the phone! stearing with feet

or texting while doing 50 MPH

not great I know . .

I think using a laptop, is winning so far.


regards


TopiToo

PS I added the feet bit . . :P

[final_edition]

I've seen a few people in the mornings with cups of tea/coffee in their hands. The cups weren't even plastic, they were china ones.
My favorite was someone eating a donner kebab at the wheel.

[BDG]

Originally posted by khushy
"(safely on one wheel at 70 mph of course)"

Sorry my sense of humour..............i was really doing 90 mph but didn't want to be seen to be irresponsible or breaking the law.........

[chicken]

Originally posted by khushy
"(safely on one wheel at 70 mph of course)"

It was safe because he was doing it on the back wheel and could still control his forward progress.
Had he been doing it on the front wheel that could be considered dangerous.

[Bionicle]

Here in Denmark its not unusual to see ppl drinking beer that they have bought duty free over the German border, some days dodging empty beer cans thrown from car windows is a full time hobby the kerbsides show testement to this some farmers have actualy collected the emptys and stuck them on poles at the side of the road to show ppl its not acceptable.