MGF wrote:On the continent generally i find that overtaking is a social activity. People are willing to help. In the UK it is more of an anti-social activity with people more willing to hinder.
TheInsanity1234 wrote: One thing I like especially is when they're about to overtake a car, they put their main beam on for a few seconds as if to say "Don't move out, I'm coming past"
Horse wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote: One thing I like especially is when they're about to overtake a car, they put their main beam on for a few seconds as if to say "Don't move out, I'm coming past"
Back in Ye Olden Days of early-ish Japanese motorcycles (late 1970s), the high beam flasher switch was usually/often/sometimes (I only ever rode a few of them! ) labelled as the 'passing' light.
MGF wrote:On the continent generally i find that overtaking is a social activity. People are willing to help. In the UK it is more of an anti-social activity with people more willing to hinder.
Mike H wrote:Having just returned from a couple of weeks in France, one thing that did strike me on this trip, bearing in mind it's only been a few months since we were last there, was that overtaking on single carriageway roads seemed much more restrained than usual, almost 'hesitant'. On several occasions on long straight D roads, with good visibility, following drivers missed what I deemed ample opportunities to overtake. Not so on the autoroutes(!), but we both commented about how different it seemed. Almost as if the French government had been running an 'overtake with extreme caution' ad campaign
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