Re: IAM to drop requirement for 'progress'
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 2:09 pm
akirk wrote:An interesting example played out today on the same stretch of road on which I overtook a string of cars last week... as I approached that straight there are some tight bends, then some gradual bends - I had already carried out an overtake earlier and had held back while cars filtered off into a local attraction - a white astra van ahead of me proceeded to carry out three overtakes on blind corners, and the wrong way further unsighting himself
we then came to the straight - he was already ahead of the traffic, but could have passed it there - from further back I passed several cars, but approaching the last van it was too close to a corner / drop to 50mph and approaching temporary traffic lights, so I went back into 'bimble mode' The Astra van overtook again as cars were braking for the temporary lights... then beyond them he passed three tractors each towing a long flatbed hay trailer, and two cars - approaching a blind bend and unsighted - I stayed back...
I had probably 2 x the power of his car, but would not have taken any of those overtakes, he was phenomenally lucky as it is a road on which motorbikes regularly do 100+ it was a busy day and he had all the overtakes with no traffic approaching around the corner...
was he making progress? was I making progress? ultimately he got ahead of me by a long way but he risked death 5 times in 2 miles, I still made considerable progress, had times of sitting back and times of passing... hopefully mine was more AD - it is not all about speed at all costs
Alasdair
Yes, AD Knowing your drive I bet it was all easy, stress free, normal every day driving to a very advanced level for you.