The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102271   Message #2072919
Posted By: Richard Bridge
10-Jun-07 - 12:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: How fast do you drive ?
Subject: RE: BS: How fast do you drive ?
"Right" is often a matter of consideration, and I do wonder whether those who dawdle do realise how inconsiderate they are being.

I often find that on crowded motorways it is easier not to push too hard, and avoid the tailgating oafs in the fast lane, but on an uncrowded motorway, with enough room to avoid the unseeing unthinking, 100 is not really all that fast. It's still possible to avoid ladders dropped by windowcleaners, exploding tyres off HGVs, and people who drop their sumps (done all of those over the years). Nowadays it isn't practical to do it because of those bloody cameras!

A Landrover is a wonderful tool off the road. On the road it has many limitations, not least the industrial deafness that can result. When I was working regularly with the All-wheel drive club, Andy with whom I did a lot of the work and who was a motoring journalist borrowed a Discovery 300TD to go to a gather somewhere in the Midlands or North, and gave up after 25 miles of the M25 and came home because he couldn't stand the noise. To say or imply that no-one is allowed to overtake a Landrover is just a bit silly.