I'm a newbie to biking, 5yrs experience driving. Car has 100 bhp, bike has 72, but bike accelerates a lot quicker as you guys ngals know. I've done a few overtakes in the car, not very experienced at it. I've read a few bike magizines stating

Overtaking ...the rules ? Simple one really...... can you overtake on a hatch and then come back in over a double white line? Nope! You arent allowed to cross the double whites so you need to complete any manoeuvre before you get to them

Not nice to watch a fellow Biker get taken out... But a bloody good reason not to overtake near a junction Don't follow your mate! ooops...be carefull out there Worse than that, that's not a juntion, it's a left turn... The car follows the bend

Just as a change from 'summer cornering-mania' [and some interesting threads], how do the advanced instructors out there go about improving people's overtaking abilities ?I have a vid from a [now-defunct, I think] training company that used

because you never know if the person your overtaking is a DAS rider with 1 days experience, rides like a muppet and is about to take 72 different lines to get around a corner including hitting the apex v.early without checking mirrors for any

....." (I had already got away by the next bit).Now I thought his outrage was poorly placed considering he showed no indication that he was about to pull out and he was aware of a motorbike being behind him, obviously looking for a chance to overtake

Is it legal to overtake where your side of the road is single-carriageway and the other side is dual-carriageway, with a thick white line separating each side of the road? I'm talking about overtaking a tractor towing a trailer at 10mph, which

Would you overtake an ambulance with flashing blue lights if it was going slower than you? depends on the situation laddie Going back a few years i did just that coz i was late...Got to a set of traffic lights and ambulance went flying past

that you traning chappies come across it a lot. The reluctance to overtake.Had it once the year before last where I led off as usual on the first day of the weekend and took the group down a wonderful section of billiard-table tarmac, super-sweepy bends

via the fast lane.I hasten to add this is in the car.My bike isn't fast enough to overtake much! This is a very good point...about 12 months ago I was pulled over by a patrol car on the A1 M.There was no-one in the inside lane a few trucks about 1/2 a