When I was in the Marines, you were "that guy" .

 

I was in my truck the other day, and two motorcycles pulled out in front of me and they didn't even look to see if it was clear. If I didn't ride a bike, I'm sure they would have been hit. I was pissed for two reasons. First, that I could have run them over, and second...they could have been killed and added to the stigma of ****ty sportbike riders...let's do be careful folks!

 

I think that this is probably the most common thing to happen to bike riders, & I guess it makes us react cos where so vulnerable & they don't seem to have the same respect for other road users. Since I started riding I have had so many near "Incidents" I've lost count. Lets see, I've kicked a guys door in because he moved from one lane to mine, nearly taking me out, not that he did not see me, cos he was looking straight at me and laughing about it with his passengers, got off at the next set of lights & invited him to continue the discussion out of the car, but he refused. Had a car full of guys try & swerve into me, let them pass, & about 2 kays up the road same yobos where pulled up for a random breath test, so pulled over, walked up to the cop, told him what had happened, he just shrugged & babbled about "not much we can do, blah, blah". So went up to the guy behind the wheel & said "Ok , dick head, now I know where you live", I didn't, but I wanted him to sweat on it. I used to ride with a lock up chain & paddlock for my bike, (wore it like sash) found that when car drivers spotted that, changed attitudes quite a bit. Have learned to kick back a bit when it comes to reacting to this sort of thing, it can quickly change it into something else again. Got to give drivers the benefit of the doubt, maybe they didn't see us, a toot of the horn is all thats required.

 

I lost my temper for the first times today, twice. I amquite theconservative and defensive rider/driver, and I was meeting some colleagues for lunch and about a block from their office a guy in a huge truck full of gas cylinders jumps out in front of me and I have to slam on the brakes and lay on the horn to avoid hitting him and he pulls into the shared left turn lane to pull an illegal uey and I flipped him off.

On the way back, I am getting ready to pull off the highway as my exit is coming up. I flip on my blinker andsee a car coming up the entrance (****ty clover leaf-style ramps are the norm in the CommunistWealth of Virginia and cause a lot of accidents) to the highway and I slow down to let it accelerate and merge. I keep slowingand the retarded girl isn't speeding upas she keeps looking at me with a bewildered look on her faceand the exit is coming up fast. At this point I'm going about 30 in the right lane of a 65 zone and think I might just have to keep on to the next exit. Just then she speeds up and I try to slide over (my blinker's been on the whole time) when the bitch behind me decides to cut me off into the exit and almost sideswipes me so I lay on the horn an flip her off. She took off like a banshee and I got stuck behind a slow car when I merged. I wished I could have caught up and punched off her mirror, but it's probably better I couldn't.

 

lol at the magnets. if usually depends. if the person, whether they are male or female is on a phone and cuts me off I usually honk til they look and give them the finger. i once had a guy cut me off and at the traffic like i yelled some explitives at him, but i doubt he heard anything.

 

its sad that paople can do all this crap that could kill us on the road but if we give them a peice of our minds they call the cops and we get in trouble for it... thats just for yelling at them...... I am reverting to my psychotic former self that calmly follows them till they park then park a little bit further from them and then wait till they get out of their cars and then its payback time....... have not done that in so long but if things keep going in the direction that its going in then I am not responsible for what could come about...........

 

I was going through a circle in DC when this b***h with her head up sooooooo far up her a!! decided to make a left turn from the right lane. I was right there just behind the left rear wheel. All I could do was lock up the rear wheel into a controlled slide and follow her into oncoming traffic. After we cleared the oncoming traffic, I stood up (while still coasting) had my hands off the bars giving an astounding ovation of WTF!! The b***h then proceeds to give me the bird!! I caught up to her really fast and slammed my fist on the roof of the car. The chick in the car was wide eyed and frozen stiff. Realizing that she got the message, I pulled away and made a left turn. I was really thinking of knocking out a window but thought the pounding on the roof was sufficient enough. I’ve been really wanting to test out how well my Icon gloves would go through a window.

 

I know how it feels .. been there done it and got the t-shirt .. esp. with sucky ATL drivers but to the younger audience that may be taking this thread a bit too seriously; believe me, the momentary satisfaction of revenge is not worth it. Even little things can escalate something insignificant to a point of no return. I can't tell you the number of reports I've read over the past few years of small incidents that would've been forgotten shortly thereafter if it was let go that ended up in a cyclists death because of road rage. A 400 lb. motorcycle will never win against a 4000 lb+ vehicle .. yeah, I know about the "twist of wrist" method but that doesn't always work either against someone with extreme EPD .. imo just let it go and go to your happy place that's what we bought the bike for in the 1st place [&:]

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Way, way more where those came from but you get the gist ... a lot of nut cases out there: Not worth it!!! tough to do sometimes but you gotta ask yourself if it's really worth all the possible conclusions otherwise.

 

Kewl, thank you for adding some sanity to this thread. Take a breath and cool the hell off because you don't know who you're dealing with.

 

That one hits home since I used to live/ride on Golf Links all the time. "It's a travesty of justice is what I think." Gimme a break Gonzalez.