Road RAGED!

[Muldoon]

So there I am riding along peacefully in the peak hour traffic, aware of whats around me and what the traffic is doing. The left lane ends and everyone starts to merge, for once being good little vegemites and letting other traffic in. So I flick on my indicator, head check over the right shoulder, clear, and get ready to move over when this little tip truck thing deicdes he doesnt want me to move into his lane, speeds up and blocks me out.  Sits there right on the car in fronts bumper revving his engine and yelling at me!
Well, whatever mate, so I accelerate and slip in in across 2 lanes. Now I dont know WTF I have done to this dude! Im sitting in the traffic when I hear his engine screaming along beside me, then he swerves into my lane, missing me by about 2 inches! Now hes behind me! Traffic stops, I can see in my mirrors he is aiming for me, so I jig left and he swerves at me again! All the while shouting stuff. So Im pretty pissed now, but I dont want to get too close, so I lane split to the head of the queue get into the right hand turn lane and keep an eye out for this wanker.
He does it again, swerves right into my lane misses me by an inch and almost takes out the car in front. Then he drives off! Unreal! All beacuse I wanted to merge into HIS lane.  Arent there some ar#$holes in the world???  :x

[ghettorigged]

Traffic was stopped and I was back from the car in front of me a good bit to avoid sucking fumes as it looked like there were firetrucks up the road and we might be a while. As I sat there, I was watching my mirrors just in case. This guy comes flying up on me so I scooted over thinking he was going to rear-end me if I didn't. Nope, he wasn't concerned with me at all... except to wiggle around me because, evidently, if we are not packed in like sardines, we are not going fast enough.    Um, hello? Traffic is at a stand-still pal. Why are you wiggling around me and taking up my breathing air? So, seeing that now another car was thinking the same thing, I just decided to lane-split all the way up to the front of the line by the fire trucks!!   I saw the guy in my mirror waving his arm out of the window and yelling!

It turns out that there was an accident AT A GAS STATION and they were going to close the road. So after talking to the fire fighter, I happily turned around and headed back to another road... passing the irate sardine packer with a salute!  :nana:

:mrgreen:

[ollie357]

I learned my lesson. I have a bike now. I will lanesplit when I determine its' convenient. If Officer Jones wants to lecture me, fine. For everyone else who cops an attitude..... :nana:

[photog]

Today it wasn't a cager; it was some squid on his daily 5-minute commute to the community college on an R1 or something like it. No gear other than a lid...just hoodie and jeans (it was fun to see him trying to warm his hands up at the stoplight). Duck-walking from the stoplight, wobbling, then zooming ahead through traffic, cutting people off, then slowing to the speed limit.

I was 2-up and moving at a slightly-faster-than-traffic sane pace. I kept ending up in front of him (all his weaving did little to move him ahead), so he "impressed me" with his ability to twist his right wrist (wow, that really takes talent!) and swerved around me, then got boxed in, then repeated his antics, pissing off more cagers in the process. He had a loud can on his bike and was in that overdone crouch.  He was flipped off a couple of times by cagers. What a maroon.  

No wonder some people hate riders.  

I felt like yelling "Save it for the track, moron."   Last thing I need is someone in a cage giving me 'tude because some eediyot squidlet cut them off in traffic one day.

:x

[Susuki_Jah]

what is it with people and not wanting bikes to merge. twice coming off the interstate on the off ramp. i have had cars speed up and try to hit me. ? wtf.. well i got sick of the shaZam! a second time. when the f%$k was stopped and turning I pulled my leg out and kicked a nice dent in his rear 1/4 panal of his new caddy STS. that will teach that bastered. !!

haha stupid cars cant ever catch a bike

[cernunos]

Careful Suz, I had a good friend break an ankle pullin' that stunt. Bless the small and meek GS and this forum.

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[Rema1000]

I think some people don't mean to kill you; they are used to charging at other cages to fight over a spot in traffic, or to make a point; and yes, sometimes the cages scrape each other doing this.  The problem is that when the guy on the receiving end is on a bike, then he has to treat it as attempted murder.

I don't think that all car drivers understand the consequences of charging at a motorcycle.  

[luksi]

I have to merge into freeway lanes everyday, during rush hour it's always a crawl...seems like everyone gives me more space than the cars in front of me  :dunno:   I do seem to have a reoccuring problem with folks following me when I slow down to turn into the driveway at work...one pick'em up truck actually passed me in my lane just as I was turning in.

[chinox22x]

had an incident last friday that my road rage came out.  I was on a turning lane..turning left and the light was red, there was a car behind me and a car in front of me.  I slowed down to give a maybe just a car length in front of me.  this freakin "ricer" on his retarded ass civic suddenly cuts me off with no turn signals.  i've been watching him for a while and i just had a feeling he was gonna do it.  he actually nudged my front tire ever so lightly but that was enough to tick me off.  i had a lot of witnesses.  I had to slam on my brakes and it rattled me a bit.  i wasn't scared, i was more pissed.

since the light was red, i pulled up to his side and he was oblivious to me. pretended like he didn't see me.  i got off my bike and slammed my hand on his windshield.  scared him shitless.  he was as white a ghost.  i was cussin up a storm and the lady next to me was scared too.  basically told him..."you f'in idiot, watch where the f you're goin."  I then proceeded to kick his bumper when the light turned green.  It was worth it to see the look in his face when he got startled when i slammed my hand on his windshield.  freakin idiots  :guns:

[Eightmarky]

Here in Northern VA, people have a very bad habit of speeding up to merge in FRONT of you.  Many people will step on the gas, merge in front of you, and then brake causing you to brake.  Also,  many people do not  yield to oncoming traffic.  They turn right on red directly in front of traffic causing traffic to brake, or they do not yield when merging from an off ramp.  I doubt even half of these jerks learned the meaning of defensive driving... :x

[lee67]

here in uk, us bikers just stop the bad car drivers and give em  A FEW SLAPS lol........ :mrgreen: kicking wing mirrors is another fav of mine..but i,ve come to notice that alot of car drivers are anti bike esp in slow moving traffic

[Zarathustra]

maybe.. just maybe..  and i'm just throwing this out here..  the reason that you've noticed a lot more anti-bike sentiments is because you and your buddies have been kicking mirriors off cars?  perhaps that might have something to do with it?  i'm no psychic here, just guessing.

[cernunos]

Zara has a good point and I would like to re-iterate...I had a good friend break an ankle pulling that stunt. Road rage is as road rage does I guess. But I love the little G, the forum and the T/C Contender.

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[ollie357]

Is it still road rage if I calmly and cooly bash their light ? :dunno:

[cernunos]

Used to work for me...Love the little bike the forum and the Ruger Number 1.

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[johncam4]

f%$k rude people

[Gofer]

A lot of people just don't know how to drive. Scarin' the sh*! outta them would probably work better than causing physical damage. People get angry when they're stuck in traffic; unfortunately, many of them don't know how to control it.

That and there are too many stupid people in the world, and nearly all of them drive cars.

[gryhound89]

This happened last friday...I'm on my way to work, it's not quite dawn yet, raining fairly hard.  I'm coming up on my left turn, close to the center line with my signal on.  This guy in a ford pick up swings out onto the shoulder and blows past me on the right.  I give him the horn and the finger, and he's yelling something out his window at me.  I guess he was in a big hurry to sit in the traffic backed up at the red light.  I'm going to start carrying a claw hammer and aiming at roofs..... :x  :guns:  :x the day before, I'm in my work truck (16 foot Mitsubishi cabover), the highway is merging down to one lane.  there's a car in front of me and a car behind me, and this dude is just hanging out in the left lane, the one with the cones in it that's getting narrower.  at the last possible second before hitting something he hits his brakes.  well about 2 minutes later, he comes flying in front of me, cutting me off and taking an exit to the left.  he couldn't possibly have seen anything before ducking into my lane, if there had been a vehicle there he would have hit them.  also, if he had done his cute little move about 3 seconds later, he would have slammed into the barrier, then bounced in front of me.  I wonder if he has any idea what type of damage my box truck will do to his little green Honda suv...matter of fact I remember his plates, stupid yuppie custom plate, if I see him again pop pop go the tires..... :lol:

[conradvr]

Had encounters with f&^wits on bikes and in cars.  Last one was a wanker on a CBR250 who decided he would just undertake me in the left track of my lane as I was sitting in the right track - this is one a 2 lane road with moderate traffic moving at the limit of 60km/h.  Had I moved over at that moment and hit him he had better wish I didn't get back up.  The blood boiled but I refrained from chasing him down - kinda wish I did but I most probably would have hit him and ended up in the shaZam!.  

Best one was when a doob in a 4x4 cut me off at a roundabout, I pulled up next to him, knocked on his window and flipped the bird - he was a bit surprised.  

Trouble is on the bike you will come off 2nd best duelling with a car.  But once stopped with all the riding gear on you can look quite intimidating.

On the road I always use the technique of trying to own the lane, when turning I hang out as wide as possible so if the car wants to go past they are well on the road's shoulder or well into the other lane - most times it slows them up a bit.