Be Excellent To Each Other

I suppose the one upside of it all is to remind me of the sheer, unalloyed joy of motorcycling (as if any such reminder were needed). Just twist your right hand, ride that reassuring, unstoppable wave of insta-torque and glide effortlessly past the obstruction, smiling as you go, and leaving the hapless queue of car drivers gnashing their teeth in your wake.

Bliss... just a shame about the UK's pants weather for about 8 months per year.

Yep, there's something very satisfying about two wheeled transport through traffic.

Look at this video doing the rounds at the BBC etc., apparently showing some HGV driver bumping and intimidating a middle-lane hogger

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-34933345

Whilst I'm appalled at the lorry driver, I'm almost equally appalled that this idiot refused to get out of the middle lane by the looks of that vid, despite the inner lane being utterly deserted? I mean seriously, just how much of an intransigent moron do you have to be to NOT get out of the way of a 38-tonne wagon bearing down on you when you have no business being there?

I hope they BOTH get prosecuted for dangerous driving.

Looks like the number of wheels is inversely proportional to driver satisfaction - a powered unicycle must be awesome.

Tank drivers may disagree.

You do have to wonder as well, why he didn't just speed up a bit to get away from the lorry.

As would this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4YmVP6i4qw

Yeah agreed, or you know, just pull in? Seriously, what is wrong with these people? Apparently the guy's an ex-copper - so no excuses. Retake your driving test after a lengthy ban, mate, and learn some anger management whilst you're cooling your heels and taking the bus. Dick.

People driving in the middle lane is annoying, but not life-threatening in the majority of cases. The lorry driver is in charge of 10 tonnes of metal! He should never be allowed to drive again after that. If driving is his livelihood he shouldn't be getting road rage like that.

Eek, guy wearing a T-shirt on a V8 unicycle, with "horrible crash at 2'55''" warning - cannot watch that. I shudder when I see bikers in T-shirts and shorts.

Runs a dashcam company, gone to hospital with neck pain despite the fact that the worst damage seems to be some scratched paint. I dunno, it all seems pretty shady to me.

Tanks have no wheels and are therefore infinitely satisfying

They have lots of wheels, fool.

I agree generally but I think it WAS life threatening in this case. I'm making no excuses for the conduct of the lorry driver, it's utterly appalling by the looks, but I'm sorry, this imbecile was going out of his way to provoke him still further (in so doing endangering himself and others IMO, including other road users completely unconnected with their "duel"). I get hassled all the time by dickwads in their shagged Astras, Corsas and reps in their 2.0TDI Passat CC shitboxes all the time but I just get out of their way without even looking over. It's called driving defensively; and besides, seriously, what do I care? The alternative, i.e. winding up someone who is clearly a total arsehole without any further help from me, could easily end nastily and I'd prefer to see my missus and kids again over some streak of piss like that.

They have turny things, they're so not wheels

Levitating trains must be positively orgasmic to drive.

Turny things, right... probably Unitedian Kingdomian-made

Don't they have caterpillar treads? Essentially like conveyerd gears?

Like, army tanks, right?

Yes - but they have wheels inside the tracks, for to push them forwards.

The ones that are groundlevel are called "roadwheels", so, yeah.