Top 4 Most Annoying Road Rage Causing Mishaps

For all the experienced UK motorcycle riders out there, this is my top 4 biggest driving pet peeves which make me turn green and scream ‘HULK SMASH’ at every passing car! 

As being a part of the British public, we hold a national obligation of being polite and always having a calming attitude. We never forget to say please and thank you and we always give up our seat on the bus or train to pregnant women or the elderly, even if it means that we have to stand with somebody’s cheese and onions breath in our face for the next hour. However, when we’re on the road, it all changes and suddenly the demon inside of us comes out.

1. Not indicating when exiting a junction

An indicator, you know that thing that goes ‘click, click’ when you push up or down to show whether you want to go left or right? Well, it seems as though not many of us know exactly how to use an indicator so I am going to explain exactly in which situations it is vital to use this blinking clicky thing.

Let’s start off with the basic of turning left and right. If you get to the end of the road and would like to turn left or right then you use your indicator to show the people in front of you and whoever is behind you exactly what your next move is going to be.

If you need to pull up on the side of the road for whatever reason you use your indicator to do so.

If you want to change lanes, before you move put your indicator on so the person in said lane does not drive into the back of your car.

Now, the best till last. If you are on a roundabout and you want to exit then you use your indicator to tell the people opposite you and behind you where you intend to go.

2. Slow movers on the top lane of a dual carriage way

Okay so you are riding along the dual carriage way doing 60 mph on an open stretch of road, life just could not get better right now. Well that’s until someone cuts you up and jumps into the fast lane and slows you down. The whole point of the segregation of a fast and slow lane is that the fast lane is meant to be used for going fast at 60 mph as the speed limit states not 40 mph because that is what the slow lane is for!

3. Reckless drivers

There is nothing more annoying, rude and disrespectful than a car driver or motorcycle rider who thinks that it is okay to cut you up so they can speed down a narrow street in their glorified tin can and leave you with black smoke and deafening noises of their exhaust exploding in your ear.

4. The Great British 9am-5pm traffic

According to the BBC, only 6.8% of UK land is classed as urban and our roads really feel the brunt of this minuet figure. With the much loved M6, M25, A50 can we Brits really deny the happiness we feel when cruising along these wide stretches of concrete everyday on our commutes to work? If you didn’t catch on then that was a serious case of sarcasm, another great attribute of being a Brit.

In reality, these well-known motorways are far from loved and are clogged up with masses of congestion. But all the other roads in the UK are not as congested as all the traffic is in one place? No, the complete opposite in fact due to how clogged up our motorways are, the rest of the traffic is backed up on all the A roads, side streets and back streets so there is literally only one escape from this madness! Your motorcycle. 

Enjoy the ride!