went out for an early ride around noth london on sunday,about 7.30am anyway had been down the north circular came back through golders and temple fortune,am sat at the lights waiting for the green to go straight across to finchley central.There are no cars or anything on my side but there are quite a few over the road.I observe them,looks fine bmw on the far right is indicating left as to go east finchley way down the north circular etc…
green comes and I set off only to suddenly see the bmw comming towards me still indicating to his left but cutting across 3 lanes of traffic!..i was like oh ****!..on with the trottle and get out the way!..
he came past so close that if i hadent he would av hit me! i felt the draft too and when i got over the junction pulled over to see that he had gone wide to miss me and had skided over the curb too!
bloody idiot, why anybody has to be in such a hurry at that time on a sunday nobody knows…
i feel that there is something about fleet cars that changes the drivers personality even more than your normal cage… a level headed, generally good old soul can get into an A4/3 Series/C Class-whatever and become a danger to everyone…shame :ermm:
I class myself as an excellent driver, having done a lot of different driving courses (Advanced, defensive, offensive, covert etc…). I know for a fact that if you took that BMW driver out of that car, and put him in a Vauxhall VXR/ Honda Civic Type R or even a new style Mini or Skoda Octavia, they would still drive like a tw@t!!! The simple fact is, these people really do believe that they can drive fast in built up area’s and on the motorway, without any adverse effects! It has nothing to do with the car that they drive! The only way they will learn is to get their licences revoked until they do some sort of driving skill’s course, or they actually take someones life/ quality of life, through their own crappy driving.
I’m sure a lot of the BMW and other german car drivers would be very displeased with being lumped in with these idiots, I’m sure you’ll agree…
There is a huge difference between driving fast and driving safely at speed! I’m sure that other advanced drivers and riders would agree with me on this one.
And before anybody asks, I drive a Vauxhall Omega 2.5 V6
Fair enough disagree, but there’s definitely some truth to the fact that certain types of cars attract certain mentalities of people, otherwise the gagillions spent on advertising really would be valueless, and I can’t believe that’s true.
Nissan Micra - Middle level business woman who is sensible and saving. The car is a method to get from A to B, the finance package was good, and the insurance cheap
BMW owner (between 3 and 5 series) - 50k+ income middle class white man between 18 and 34, with competitive streak a mile wide who believes football is the only sport, chicks dig him, and no one else matters…
Well hey that’s what the brochure said when I went into the BMW dealership… are you a knob…? You are? Well you should own one of our cars!
I agree. I think wealth has a lot to do with it; some get so rich they think they’re too rich to crash…
Souped up Vauxhall Nova…stay away from them. Pretty dangerous.
But there are exceptions and I’d say the stereo types are a minority; its just they’re the ones you notice. I think I’m a good driver and I drive a Rover 620; I have this cos it works and cost £300. If it had been a Nova, or a Beemer then I’d still drive the same.
So we have pigeon holed bikers and now we are pigeon holing cagers. What you may find is that the car is not his/hers they are foreign and the indicators are on the opposite side to their normal car. So thinking they are indicating right but infact indicating left. Obviously this doesn’t make it ok and obviously that person was a tw*t for their manoeuvre. Never a copper about when you need one is there. (don’t take that remark literally guys…)
anyway had been down the north circular came back through golders and temple fortune,am sat at the lights waiting for the green to go straight across to finchley central.There are no cars or anything on my side but there are quite a few over the road.I observe them,looks fine bmw on the far right is indicating left as to go east finchley way down the north circular etc…
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