One thing I find with the 101 is that it encourages careful, patient, considerate driving, because it's just too big, bulky and unmanouverable to take any chances with.
So whilst carefully driving down the narrow country lanes in Devon last week I was slightly irked to have a white panel van hurtling towards me showing no signs of stopping, slowing down or even acknowledging I was trundling towards him.
You do also tend to feel quite invulnerable, particularly with the roll cage, so whilst I slowed down and tucked myself into the hedge, I wasn't particularly concerned about the outcome. Needless to say, he neither slowed nor tucked himself into the hedge.
His wing mirror clipped my wing mirror and tore out his glass and the motor... ha ha. (Not a scratch on mine, of course.)
Then my friend (following behind) pointed out that as he went past my rear end (I was on on a slight left hand bend) he'd caught the rest of his mirror on the back of my roll cage and broken the plastic casing in half!
As you can imagine, I was considerably cheered after that.
