NEAR MISS THREAD

[darrsi]

A16 'smornin'

3 vans in a row, each pulling a caravan. Thinks "as soon as we come off the roundabout, I'll do all three along the dotted line". There's a lot of oncoming traffic, but the road is very wide and straight as a die here - just coming out of Boston.

Car behind the 3 vans pulls left to give me more space - I overtake the first van and caravan, loadsa room. Couple of feet behind the second, still on the centreline and accelerating, and the bastid swerves across in front of me (traffic still oncoming from opposite direction).

I know you always think about not slapping the anchor down too hard - I've already had to change my grids after a close call with a truck in similar circumstances, when I locked up both wheels, but I thought I was going to make it and started thinking about releasing the pressure when the rear suddenly locks up and I'm all over the shop. I kept it sunny side up tho.

He then swerved back over left again (probs texting on his mobile) but had I not reacted well enough that would have been too little too late.

Once I'd got back into not wanting to throttle the git mentality I just overtook as previously intended, without so much as a glance across. Didn't want to give him the satisfaction, in case he'd done it deliberately (yes, the plonker drivers around here often do things like that and think its funny). I can't think of any other possible reason that the guy would pull across in those circumstances - mobile (or similar) or being a cunny funt.

When I got home I found my helmet flip-up cable was bust! That made my day - another 100 squids out the window as well as a new pair of grids!

For the bike to go apeshit you must've have pulled the clutch in as well?