Motorbike on motorway telling me to stop

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As a motorcyclist who happens to wear Hi Viz in an attempt to stay alive I have to say the last thing I would ever do is pick a fight with 2 tonnes of metal and 57 air bags. On a bike I am at a serious disadvantage in both respects. Our man on the bike may have had a several screws loose but so have many car drivers who might just respond a lot more aggressively.

On a more serious note about lane discipline, there is one common circumstance where I don't pull into the nearside lane which observation suggests annoys some people. When in the middle lane, the lane markings to my left before and after an entry slip road change to close spaced white lines. I take this to mean stay in lane until the lane marking change back to wider spaced white lines. It's presumably dealing with the hazard of traffic joining the motorway. Anyone know if that is correct.

 

[renault12ts]

It means take care...only a solid white line means do not cross. But, and I'm not being personal, your asking of the question highlights a fundamental problem...road users should know this, not wonder about it.

 

[John Jones Jr]

There you go Cinek.

Was driving down M1 today towards London, speed reduced to 40. I was in the middle lane. A man on a motorbike with a green jacket (no police markings etc) with a go-pro on helmet aggressively came next to my car and started beeping me to pullover whilst screaming. He then tried to make me pull over. As he wasn't a police officer I didn't stop. He then came beside my car in traffic I opened my window and he said "you'll be getting a £100 fine you were staying in the middle lane" and then drove off.

As you said ''Each story tends to have two sides, and there isnt any account for the other guy.''

In fairness to the OP the above does read like an account to me.

 

[John]

Police vehicles have some kind of discrete lights/siren eve if unmarked?

Yup.

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[clk320x]

Yeh exactly! He had none of these...

 

[StephenSJason]

My best advice would be to take his registration plate next time that you see him and call "101" to check him out. Explain the situation and his actions, of which yours were legitimate and his were reckless, there's no excuse for lane-weaving or antagonistically/aggressively trying to force another vehicle to stop and constitutes as road rage.

I can almost guarantee you now that he is a civilian with a chip on his shoulder who more than likely compiles his footage for dash-cam clips or sends them to his local constabulary. Don't get me wrong, clips of some real reckless events or road rage episodes are worth the effort of investigating as general rule is that it's common occurrence with that driver but, in your case it seriously isn't worth the cost/effort to push further, especially as it appears that you have done nothing wrong.

I'd expect your call to 101 to go the other way, and depending on your local force may result in him receiving a letter for his driving.

I've worked a lot on Smart Motorway schemes whilst in the construction phase, and etiquette is no different than in national speed limit. Move to Lane 1 whilst not overtaking, and use Lanes 2, 3 and/or 4 to pass slower moving vehicles. It is not always possible to travel in Lane 1 often due to a large volume of slow(er) traffic in Lane 1 or the most ridiculous of people speed matching you whilst you try to overtake under SPECS surveillance. Generally, no policeman is going to be bothered about middle-lane "hogging" unless you're impeding traffic by travelling slower than the posted limit. It is also sometime signed to remain in lane at the most congested points of the roadworks.

There was an instance on a job not so long ago, whereby a lunatic in a car was weaving across lanes with his hazard lights on in an attempt to control the traffic behind him within a roadworks zone; essentially creating a rolling block. He was swerving to block overtaking and persistently braked which would suggest that he had lost the plot. He was pulled over by The Real McCoy somewhere past the zone but, what charge he may have received I do not know.

All I can say is that, when you're working in these zones on foot, it's quite unnerving when some tool starts playing around. I've seen trucks, Varioguarding and cones clipped by idiotic motorists. Thankfully I've not witnessed members of any workforce become injured but, it does happen.
My personal preference is to hang-out around the HADECS speed cameras, and behind the guard rail and it's always nice when the HADECS systems is testing; that usually sorts people out.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Was driving down M1 today towards London, speed reduced to 40. I was in the middle lane. A man on a motorbike with a green jacket (no police markings etc) with a go-pro on helmet aggressively came next to my car and started beeping me to pullover whilst screaming. He then tried to make me pull over. As he wasn't a police officer I didn't stop. He then came beside my car in traffic I opened my window and he said "you'll be getting a £100 fine you were staying in the middle lane" and then drove off.

Does anyone have any idea what this is? He's not police he has a go-pro and is wearing a hi-vis jacket. Has he got any power?

Cheers

Requoted the OP to remind me of the original point.

I think that I would have pulled over if able. The biker sounds worth baiting further, would give a better chance at recording his reg number and add to the list of offences he has committed.

I suspect, however, that he would bottle out of a face to face discussion.