Unfortunately when somone comes to the end of their tether sanity and reason tend to fly out the window, usually just before someone flies off the handle. That was the point of my earlier post suggesting that if the 'victim' had responded with a 'clip round the ear' to the perp in the heat of the moment that's one thing. To later hunt them down in search of vengance is going to end in tears.




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you are travelling up a hill minding you own business following a slowish car when a group of 3 riders come up behind you . 2 pass and 1 tucks in behind . no problems . at the next overtaking lane you indicate and pull out, the bike behind you decides to duck to the left and cuts between you and the slower moving car causing you to move to the right, half over double yellow lines to avoid clipping the bike . you follow bike untill he notices you flashing your lights and gesturing to pulll over at which point the bike indicates then gives you the fingers before taking off . when you are half way to where you a re going you notice the same bikes stopped . Hell, you pull over and find they are laughing about the experience so you get a bit grumpy . time for a choice ...( A ) have a group hug , sing a few songs and and swap numbers .. ( B ) yell at the bikers because you have personally dragged 1 injured rider out of a bush after crashing on the hill and helped another 3 or 4 after their accidents on the same hill and have had a gutsfull of inconsiderate riders cutting up the traffic . In the summer there wouldnt be a weekend that goes by without some one falling off and an being damaged. as another local I hear a lot of ambulances from my place heading up the hill .And these are the "really experienced" riders who are pretty much dont cause any trouble and are really onsiderate (tui time) . Now that being said I dont agree with violence for the hell of it , but in the heat of the moment shit does happen rightly or wrongly . It does seem like mr starlet hit the wrong bloke though . You were the bloke that unfortantly put a stone chip in his windscreen as you passed and told mr starlet to "fuck off dickhead " . What you should also realise is that local riders have a fair bit of respect for the hill and its users , its a fun bit of road and is linked to our community . Its sort of like having a really cool toy in your back yard and it pisses you off when people use it and dont care about other users . Dont forget that the stalet guy is a biker and has helped people in the biker community when they have been in trouble . Its a paradox aint it . Some people live by different rules than the rest of the community, basically , if you piss people off dont expect a hand shake , they dont expect one in return .




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