Noticed over time a certain "type" of driver who possesses a very deadly attitude.One tried to get me on Friday. Lower socioeconomic type Older car Usually has "Missus" in with them These "types" will DELIBERATELY swerve into you path, to try to Kill you just for fun, they will then sit there and LAUGH about it. The stupid pricks dont know that their body language/basic lip reading skills betray their MURDEROUS intent. I think their lives are shit and they are jealous that they don't have the balls to ride a quality ADV bike.
Yep, that's every driver in Sydney, some do it knowingly, others just have no idea what they're doing. Nothing new...
Many moons ago , I've kicked in the odd tail light or two at the stop lights, and was quiet happy to get off the bike and talk about it as well. Starting to mellow out in my latter years. SOLUTION= Make your 20 year old son take up riding motorcycles and let him do the talking . Some people call this road rage, but if you do it in a calm and collected manner, how can that be road rage.
Speaking as someone who carries a gun (whenever I've got pants on at least!) having a gun wouldn't do anything for you against such drivers. Are you going to shoot him while he's moving? Who knows where his vehicle will end up! Are you going to pull up and execute him at the next light? Your throttle and your cell phone are your best tools against attempted vehicular homicide. If you really want to up the ante get a digital video recorder so you have hard evidence.
It has nothing to do with class, more often than not wankers and bitches on mobile phones in their mercs are the ones intent on claiming every lane as their own regardless of anyone else. ( Does this mean cause Im not a rich prick I should vacate these premises ???? )
Lower socio economic type... This is often hard to judge I've met millionaires who drive shit boxes I'd never spend serious $ on a car (never owned one - they dont interest me). There are prats of all types - in Audis, Subus, plenty in 4 bys, Conformadores, and Hyundis essetera, essetera and yes many in Mercs. Almost got sideswiped by a boke in an Aludi the other day - deliberate - he was pissed I split traffic and got in front of him on my 25 year old air head. Wanker.
So far I've got 7 RH exterior mirrors, 1 LH exterior mirror (a story in itself.....), 4 RH tail-lights, and 1 Merc bonnet emblem. The last one was amusing (NOT!!!!), when at the lights he bumped my back tyre while I was stationary. I saw him coming and knew he was braking, but then he eased off them a bit I reckon over nearly 30 years that makes me amazingly patient and possessed of a Zen-like calm while riding Jeez there's some tossers in tin-tops out there.
I rode with a bloke once who got cut off (in my view it was deliberate), we pulled up to the next set of lights he reached into their car and ripped out the rear view mirror, grabbed the guys keys out of his car and tossed them across the road into a pile of bushes, lights changed and we rode off. As funny as that was I have never ridden with him again as I don't want to end up dead. If dickhead car drivers want to be like that when I'm on the bike I slow down, let myself cool off a bit and then continue. I can have a temper at the best of times and when im on my bike is not the right time to exercise it.
Just a question, when i was confronted with similar situation i would lift my leg with the MX boot and make sure they don't use their mirrors ever again. Is that OK here? or do cups get involved?
Like Mod i once had a bloke in an old HR nudge the back tyre of my bike a few times. I used to carry chain nd pdlock around my chest bandolier style back then so i broke his windshield with it. Back then i was a cranky bugger though and these days i prefer the Roswell approach and just chill out.......however i think a rear view mirror might be too tempting
Hitting a car panel with your hand gives them a fright, makes a big noise like they've hit you and they never really know where it came from. (Because they don't know where other road users are in the first place.) Learnt that one commuting on my bicycle, in Melbourne. The other thing I used to do in Sheffield (UK) is have a little chat to them, calmly I'd ask if they had seen me. Mostly I think they were surprised that I was female on a bike. Haven't tried it at home. Had a guy try to hit me once when I hit his car with my bicycle pump after getting cut off, he stopped further up the road to get me as I rode past and his fist glanced off my shoulder, so I turned around and said "ner ner, didn't hurt" and rode off giggling. I'd probably get knifed now days.
Getting even if pretty pointless, though innitially attractive. The better option is to try to position yourself on the roadway to minimise these situations from ocurring in the first place.
A really angry bloke deliberately cut off my brother.So he blew him a kiss.....That pissed him off even more as they expect agression in return.
Over the years I have mellowed somewhat: in my heady youth I carried a spark plug spanner with a handle disguized to resemble the barrel of a pistol. I have fought people on the roads, busted thier mirrors, whacked and kicked pannels etc. Now I avoid confrentation and assume that whatever transgression has just happened was the result of absent mindednes. I just give a nuetral wave. We just don't know what is going on through the heads of drivers on the road. Behavior like this guy has exhibited is just enough of an indication that your best choice is to avoid him . Frankly; there are some extremely angry and agitated people out there and I am personally over fighting some bloke because someone (usually me) cut off or otherwise offended someone else. I give a neutral wave/acknowledgement and get on with what I'm doing. A few years ago in Five Dock (Sydney) a bloke knocked a motorcyclist of his bike and came back and ran over him. You hear about people driving their cars into crowds outside the pub. Some fool pulled in front of a peleton on Anzac Parade (sydney again) and stopped suddenly so that all the bikes crashed into each other. These are examples of extremely troubled personalities. I say steer clear of ém ....bit of a rant there! Im off to get a coffee now <!-- google_ad_section_end -->
Geez, some angry blokes on here ! Ive had to deal with my fair share of cages, but i'd prefer not to stick around and prefer to ride like their out to kill me. A cage has never cut me off, i'm always cutting them off
Today i had a very interesting experience with my 2.5 yold in the car. I was out of the garage and was blocked in the right hand side by a lovely motherly SUV (there is a childcare next door) so i had slowly slided into the road. Some box driver decided that a shot honk is insufficient and kept his hand on the horn as he passed by very slowly and gave me the looks. I started laughing and my son joined. You should have seen his face and the finger movements (that i could not figure out and didn't care about) he did. i am still pissing myself. If my son was not at the deck i was probably putting my angry face, its great to have him along. As for my earlier q i assume it is more dangerous then back home. Due to the bright colors of the blue suit and the orange bike i attract allot of attention any way so only the sleeping drivers ever change a lane on me. so i get to ponder that action rarely thank g-d. i think i will start blowing kisses and wave my hands.:fyyff
Years ago a mate of mine always carried an old spark plug in his pocket. Anyone cut him off... into the pocket and throw the spark plug at the windscreen. He broke a few too. Funny thing was.... he was a cop....:eek1