I'm sure we've all had close shaves with overtaking, but I my girlfriend and I had a hell of a fright while being overtaken by (I hate to admit it) a boy racer

We were coming back from Hamilton on the weekend after being at the car & bike show. Had just come though Huntly and run into some road works (as anyone whos riden on SH1 theres shit loads of roadworks) was about 8 cars from the front of the que, but as we were moving decided to wait till the straight I knew was coming before passing.

We came into the straight doing about 50kph, looked up nothing coming,check rear vision nothing happening, pull out accerate to about 120-130kph overtake 6 cars, getting to end of straight. With girlfriend on back, think better not risk it and pull back in just as 4x4 comes round corner.

Just as I pulled in (my ribs had the marks to prove how close he was to us) this boy racer who was at least 5 cars behind me when I pulled out came flying past me overtaking the 2 cars in front and then pulling back in with about 10m to spare. The guy in the 4x4 was really pissed as he actually swerved towards the boy racer .

This guy was just a total egg head, as anyone who rides this road knows there are cops everywhere (but never when you want them). And having done this great passing got caught in traffic at the next roads works where I overtook him coming out the other end and didn't see him again.

I have to say though that on the day was surprised by the amount of people who moved to the left when they saw me coming, well done to them.