ROAD TURDS - slow drivers in the fast lane

[toaster]

we have a huge problem with terrible drivers in my city.  on the way to work in the mornings, i will come up behind someone doing 55-60 in a 70 in the left lane all the time.  and we have the "civilian cops" that will drive right next to someone at 5 below the speed limit with nowhere to pass.  i have passed people in the middle turn lane several times and as soon as i do that, they will speed up and/or stop driving right next to someone.  our local cops like to drive in the left lane at 5-10 under the limit and nobody will ever pass them, but i will be brave enough to pass at the speed limit and just keep pulling away like they are a normal car.

but we also have lots of people that will ride right on my bumper when im doing well over the speed limit in the right lane and not know how to go to the left to pass me.  i have had it happen several times, im doing about 80, and some d-bag gets behind me in the right lane and keeps getting closer.  i will eventually slow down and just wait to see what they do.  i have gone as slow as 30 in a 50 because someone was on my bumper and they wouldnt go around me.  but then again, anytime someone gets too close to my rear bumper i will always slow down,  they think it will make me move faster but it doesnt, and then when they finally back off, i will come back up to speed and they get close again, and i slow down....  over and over and over.

just a side note, i drive with a trailer alot and in all honesty, it is easier for me to stay in the left lane and just keep going 5mph over the limit than it is to move over every chance i get.  i have moved over before and as soon as i catch the next car, the person im about to move in front of will speed up to keep me from getting in front of them.  if im holding up any traffic i will get out of the way, but most times im going faster than just about everyone.

[Kaveh]

whats the big deal they are just hypermilers.

I got nothing against hypermilers, I just wish they all die a slow excruciatingly painful death 


Seriously, if you want to hypermill on the freeway, do it in the slow lane.  Hypermilling doesn't belong on surface streets unless it is at 4 am.

[eyeboy]

whats the big deal they are just hypermilers.

NO!! they are ROAD TURDS!!! 

[c_rex]

this is also applicable to the boneheads who drive in the HOV lane at the stated speed limit or below while the rest of traffic blazes on by.  WTF!  I'm not paying my tax dollars to sponsor moronicus maximus to drive like my mother would in a clearly designated "Nyah nyah nyah nyah" lane when they could be doing the same thing, 1 rpm from stalling out, in the right hand lane (where they belong!)!  I got enough people in my ride to qualify for mach 3 mutha trucka... MOVE!!!!

[DY]

Carpool/HOV lane should not be moving slower than the other lanes!  But more often than not I see a tour bus cruising along at 5mph below the limit... and in some areas here, you cant exit the carpool lane for a good stretch of road.  That means you're stuck behind a bus while everyones passing you in the "slower" lanes. ARghh!!

[marsrr]

all u f##kers from the city are responsible you believe that the left lane is the fast lane is is not it is a passing lane!                                                                      wile u are on your cell phone and zone out right next to the guy in the right lane and gauge your speed off of them and then you get on a site like this and pregnant dog and I dont mean this as an attack on you but its the truth its funny you all go 90 mph on the freeway but soon as it gets a little out of town ITS SETTLE-DOWN SIT IN THE LEFT LANE AND AIM TOWARD ALASKA AT 60 MPH speed limit 65  ya you all say it but watch next time you get in your car and find your self driving down main street in the left lane! I drive more miles then should be allowed each year and have seen this longer then you can imagine I avoided this site because it means so much to me just burns my ass because WE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS YET WE pregnant dog AND AND DONT EDUCATE.  THE SIGN SAYS KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS  SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT! ............I dont mean to hate but wtf check yourself. you say it but when you go to work tomorrow and u go straight for the left lane on your freeway you will know why your not free!                        AZ...TX...NM....CA.....come on you know   O by the way the dubble yellow line means NO FU##kin PASSIN...YOU KILLERS...OF PEOPLE...just my 4 million dollars worth.........................................................don't just say it.......................

[NAKID]

Dude, who pissed in your Wheaties?

[Rev. Millertime]

I only use the left lane for passing.... then as soon as I'm clear, back to the right.  I don't even have a problem with someone camping in the left lane, as long as they are not holding up anyone else.

Don't tell me I'm guilty of doing it, till you ride with me.

Oh, and as for the 90 in town and 65 outside of town, it's just the opposite for me.   Heavy traffic in town=10 over (65).  Light traffic outside of town=15 over (90).

Of course, up to 10 over in ND will get you a $20 ticket, and 11-15 over will get you a $40 ticket... neither of which will go on your record. 

[madmax178]

Illegal to drive slow in the fast lane in Illinois on highways

[ODrides]

all u f##kers from the city .......................

RA's here -- hide the beer!

[marsrr]

I only use the left lane for passing.... then as soon as I'm clear, back to the right.  I don't even have a problem with someone camping in the left lane, as long as they are not holding up anyone else.

Don't tell me I'm guilty of doing it, till you ride with me.

Oh, and as for the 90 in town and 65 outside of town, it's just the opposite for me.   Heavy traffic in town=10 over (65).  Light traffic outside of town=15 over (90).

Of course, up to 10 over in ND will get you a $20 ticket, and 11-15 over will get you a $40 ticket... neither of which will go on your record. 

well I made this statement with the idea of cars in mind...driving....not riding......                                                                                                  when people drive their cars they just go to the left lane its just the way the water flows in the city and evan tho you my know this is wrong you my find your self getting behind some one to move them out of the way they dont move and for the most part bam their you are driving in the left lane.......mad because they dont get over....your still their in the left lane.. add that times..20 million=traffic..................................................................                                                                                                                                         I wrote this last night just to get people fired up...but next time you get in your car check it out we all fall for this some time                                               and again ment this loosely not that you or he/she is the one............but you know who you are out their   

[mstevens]

There are really only two kinds of drivers: maniacs and morons.

"Maniacs" consists of everyone going faster than me. "Morons" consists of everyone going slower than me. There are more and more morons these days. I almost miss the maniacs. Around here, the left lane is always oncoming traffic so I have no particular desire to ride in it.

Last week I followed some woman practically the entire way from my house to the hospital. At no point did she go over 30mph, and that was where the speed limit was 50 - normally, going slower than 60 there will result in rear bumper damage. Up the hill, she was going so slowly my speedometer wouldn't register. I was in the roadster and slipping my clutch like mad in first to avoid going backward. Perhaps she was hypermiling; I don't care. I just wanted her to go ahead and die because she'd probably start moving faster.

I was praying she was a new patient so I could see her half an hour late then, when she complained, say I'd been caught behind some slow woman and couldn't get to the office in time but, alas, it was not to be.

[Shortie]

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[Rev. Millertime]

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[FatguyRacer]

There are really only two kinds of drivers: maniacs and morons.

"Maniacs" consists of everyone going faster than me. "Morons" consists of everyone going slower than me.

So so true.

On the bike, I'm a Maniac. In my TDI im a moron. But I'm a moron who keeps to the right.