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So, ive just narrowly avoided having my stagea written off again, just after ive had the thing in service the past few weeks and is now running perfectly. Literally just picked it up from the workshop and on the way home nearly had some dipshizzle rear end me on the william hovel roadworks.

As some of you probably know, the speed is dropped back to 40kmh because they need to stop the traffic sometimes. I was at the rear of a group of cars, almost stationary and I see a car flying up in my rear view mirror. I think to myself "damn hes leaving his braking late". I can see hes not slowing down so i began to pull off to the side onto the shoulder, and then i hear his brakes lock up so I give the stagea a quick squirt of gas onto the grass in the middle. He was almost certainly doing more than 90, my car would have been written off for sure.

Seriously WTF, theres plenty of things wrong here, how far ahead was this guy looking?? at his bonnet?? How the hell can people go so fast when the speeds been dropped back to 40 and still not give a shit about where theyre going, and what theyre running into.

This kind of thing freaks me out on the bike where the mirrors have a narrow field of view for whats in your rear view. I wonder what would have happened if i was on my bike, i almost certainly wouldnt have seen him. I would probably be busted up at the moment.

paranoia is your friend everyone is out to get you. pay attention cos you cant trust anybody else to!

sorry end rant

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BlackR32 Rising Star

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Sorry to hear it mate,

Another case of Canberra drivers not giving a rat because they are so used to our open roads!!!

I believe in frequent licence test!!! Sure would be a pain in the @ss but at least loosers like that wouldn't have the opportunity to ruin our pride and joy's.

Smooth move shifting out the road by the by. how many people would have simply braced for impact?

sl33py Mentor

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Damn!

License retests wouldn't solve this problem. Big-brother style hidden speed cameras and/or computer-controlled situationally aware decelerators built into cars *might*. But would also decrease driving fun for the rest of us 'responsible' people. And anyway, even if we had them, they'd build a bigger idiot. If I had to pick my worst pet-hate, it's tailgaters. My second fear is being rear ended while waiting stationary in a slip lane, by someone watching the traffic ahead of me instead of what *I'm* doing (since that has already happened to me once).

Gus- Grand Master

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pretty sure there is a section on the monaro that is 40 at the moment...near the queanbeyo turnoff near hume...

no one in the morning goes 40...as soon as your out of the speed camera its straight u to 100 :P

me and my mate do 40 in each lane sometimes just for a laugh...then we get to give it a quick blast up to 80 wooooo

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zoomzoom Mentor

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yeh im not a speed nanny, its just theres a time and place, and when theres traffic and people working on the roads thats definitely NOT the time. it bugs me so much that some people dont look ahead, even after going past the "60KMH" sign, then the "POLICE PATROL THIS WORK SITE" sign THEN the "40KMH" sign

temporary speed bumps i wonder? :P

im sure that wouldnt be popular, maybe bottleneck the road a bit further back to make sure people slow down?

rossco_01 Rising Star

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this almost happened to me on the monaro on the way home the other day the traffic was stopped some asshole jumped in to my lane i had to jam on my brakes and stopped a 4WD behind me was to busy talking on the phone ( i know i take in to much detail when driving) i saw all this in my mirror so i just ran straight off on to the grass i hear 4WD tyres screeching with pain as he jammed on the brakes i gave him a serve about being on his mobile after following him to chisolme shops. skyline Vs massive bullbar and a huge weight behind it = fail. i saved my car by paying to much detail when driving

rossco_01 Rising Star

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stalker much... lol

i know how you feel though.. when someone does something so blatently stupid on the road you just wanna pull them over and say "WTF"

i was going that way anyway so it just seemd like a good time to vent my anger he got a total shock and was really apologetic

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Oh don't get me wrong not something I'd ever do. I think I'm more after something deliberate like a flame thrower to all the frigging idiots that keep driving so far under the speed limit in the right lane!!! Belconnen way today was the worst!!! Boxed in Kat = ANGRY Kat.

zoomzoom Mentor

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its those GTR drivers ;)

the stagea helps to soothe your nerves in rush hour.

one morning i was going at a crawls pace along the william hovel stretch in the bumper to bumper time, and i was keeping the car steady in 1st gear, and a crazy woman behind was speeding up and slowing down right up to my bumper and swearing her head off the whole way. damn frustrating but i didnt stoop to her level.

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