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The GLW had it for about a month..... but started driving after a fortnight.

Good for her. Hope she does well.

I must admit to ignorance at this kind of thing. I just put the Dead Kennedys logo on for absolutely no logical reason and didn't bother to learn how to put something more appreciate on. It would be weird to change it now.

Harley Rider who wouldn't go over 30 after I turned off the A14 this morning. The speed limit is 60, but he was bimbling along whilst everyone was trying to get to work. I was in the car as I'd dropped Poppy off this morning. I so wish I had the Dullville, but I don't have time to switch vehicles if I'm doing the school drop.

Me too. Not using lights during "daylight hours" seems to be a Suffolk trait I've noticed.

They must come from Suffolk.

Driving on the way home from the shops. A bit of a squeeze between parked cars on my left and oncoming cars on my right. One car passes fine, then another and then the third almost rams me as she's too busy looking at the shops and not the road. I thought "Brace for impact" as it was either her or the parked cars, but she veered over to her side at the last moment. Phew!

The nob who desperately wanted to get in the left hand lane approaching Felixstowe, so I slowed down and waved him in. Then when we turned off the A14, he tried to move to block me from overtaking. So if I see him try that again (however unlikely that is), he can stay where he is and come home via the port. What a selfish nob.

Glad to hear you're fine. Don't let him try and blame you or try to claim you're both jointly culpable.

The waterproofing on my jacket gave up this morning. I'm warming up in a little chef before a quick dash to a b&b in Salisbury. Glad I booked the en-suite room now.

I am staying on the Gower Peninsular for the next couple of days. Shame about tomorrow's weather though. Some of the roads have stunning views.

I'll be roving around the south of the UK this week. Yesterday I zigzagged around London - through the Blackwall Tunnel, along Blackheath on my way to Kingston. I forgot how unfriendly and dangerous some London drivers are ( being born and raised south of the river I shouldn't really forget!) Got a day meeting friends then tomorrow I'm off to South Wales and later in the week to Cornwall.... I hope the weather will be good......

In summary: - The CBT must be taken in order to start riding. Think of it a compulsory bike tuition. After that you're entitled to ride for two years a 125 bike or smaller, so long as you have L plates and you cannot ride with a pillion (passenger) or on the motorways. The A2 is the actual bike test. Which involves first having completed your CBT. As long as you are over 19 and you do the practical tests on a bigger bike, you'll be entitled to ride a bigger bike - 47bhp for the A2 I think.

Well Suffolk's got that too. It would explain a lot. I'm a Londoner who moved here. But I can give you two traits many a Suffolk driver exhibits: - Lights are for only night. If it's thick fog or raining heavily, save the petrol keep those lights off. Indicators are switched on as you manoeuvre. Keep 'em guessing up 'til then.

If it wasn't for the A14 I probably wouldn't post on this thread.

The complete idiot who was taking a couple of minutes overtaking me on the A14. I'm not exaggerating. When another car joined at the Kirton junction (which has a very very short joining lane) I had to do an emergency stop as the second driver just pulled out into my lane. So they were both nobs for not looking at what was going on. Admittedly if I had been on the bike I'd have got away from Mr Slow-Overtaker earlier, but I was driving my daughter home and was in the cage. I'm glad one out of three of us predicted what was about to happen.

Woke up at 3am with a killer headache. Took plenty of pain killers but couldn't get to sleep until 5.30. Got up at 6.30 to go to an exam in Essex. f**k it. Did a rubbish job when I got there too. Double frick.

In the car yesterday going home driving down Whearstead Road which is single lane in each direction with parked cars it gets a bit narrow at a few places, but for most of it there's plenty of room if a bike overtakes. I'm doing 30 as it's a residential area and a bike overtakes although there's a lorry coming the other way. True he's chancing it, but his mate who is undertaking me at the same time must have had only centimetres between me on one side and the parked cars on the other was certainly a nob. He was chuffing lucky I saw him as I expect many drivers would have moved left to give a bike overtaking them a bit of room. I suppose what gets my goat is that's the sort of thing I feel gives bikers a bad name. I know there have been plenty of discussions about undertaking, but squeezing through a barely passable space is different to using an inside lane.

The lady who "slipped stream" by following the car in front of her over the roundabout this morning causing me to brake hard to avoid hitting her. The car in front was borderline, but she was definitely chancing it. She didn't even look round when I sounded the horn. Funny how a lot of drivers get stiff necks when you do that.

The plonker on the phone in Tesco car park this afternoon. As his window was down he got an ear full from me. Then when I went to leave the guy parked behind me got in his BMW, revved it like a right chav and then reversed out of his parking space right into a passing car. Oops hope he has fully comp.

The muppet who almost smashed into me. I'm waiting to turn right in a lane specifically marked for traffic to turn right, but as it was busy the oncoming cars were moving pretty slowly, but no one was letting me turn right. I'm nit bothered as I was almost home and the weather was splendid and then the bike that was filtering past the oncoming traffic doesn't pay attention to the road markings and what was ahead of him almost rides straight into me. I must admit it's not the first time it has happened of this road, but as the previous time was with a teenager on a scooter I thought the rider had seen me at least a quarter of a mile away.

Dead Kennedys, Kraftwerk and Imani Coppola. The spell check hates virtually all of that.

Nice one. BTW The spot to park the bike is near the ticket machine. There's only enough room for one bike.

Yes. Go to the car park next to the Crown Pools off William Street. There's a tiny area for bike parking, but it's free. Go to the front of the pools on Crown Street, turn right along that road. The next building is Crown House where the test centre is. I took my driving theory there. Reception will direct you to the right office. Allow plenty of time to get there. An accident on the A12 can hold you up for quite a while.

The big white Mercedes that despite the fact that the car in front of me was following a lorry that had just moved into the overtaking lane, decided to undertake all three of us........... then she must have thought "oh dear" or something like that as she almost drove straight into the car filtering onto the A14...... (the clue was the lorry moving into the overtaking lane)...... then in her panic she almost drove me into the crash barrier as she swerved into my lane. It's the second time in a month I've almost been swiped by a car moving into my lane, so I'm considering painting the Dullville dayglo.