Do you retaliate?

[rastuscat]

Just to add, my man advises he was a toothpick short of laying the driver out. That's the sort of adrenalin rush a close call brings on.

If he had we would have been writing all sorts of things about Police brutality, Rodney King etc.

[roadracingoldfart]

I have done a few retaliatory action stunts on wayward drivers doing dumb shit to me on a bike . Some involved mirrors and stuff.

Funniest was a guy cut me off , i give the evil eyes and the finger , he takes offence ,
chases me down the road ( i waited for him a bit) he follows me into work , he gets out of his car ,
he starts to rant alot , i tell him shut the hell up and get a life as he was wrong , he says ill smack you sorry ass into next week.
Well all i could do was ask him to see my appointment officer , all 4 of my workmates (engineeres) were standing behind him menacingly with various tools in hand all smiling.
He starts to grovel with a serious quiver in his voice and inches towards his car , trys to start an already idling engine , cant find reverse and makes a total fuck up of getting out the drive and scrapes the whole l/h side of his car on the steel fence post.
We stood around pissing ourselves for approx 10 mins till the boss came out and asked why we were not working. Told him the event , he gets a cop mate to issue a ticket for damaging the fence and not reporting the damage to the company . Apparently he never mentioned why he was in the yard to start with. And the boss got a cheque for the damaged fencepost lol.
I recon hes a reformed road rage dickhead now.

[rustic101]

Have noticed more and more of late people on cell phones drifting over. Thinking about what I see when I look at them, it seems they are trying to hide the fact they are using a phone which appears to actually make them steer/ drive worse?

Have just some new boots with toe sliders so feel more comfortable if I have to kick a panel or two when passing failing that they will get the usual raised WTF hand!!!

[Katman]

Have just some new boots with toe sliders so feel more comfortable if I have to kick a panel or two when passing

Relax and go read some more of that book.

And post up the next instalments.

[Blinkwing]

Have noticed more and more of late people on cell phones drifting over. Thinking about what I see when I look at them, it seems they are trying to hide the fact they are using a phone which appears to actually make them steer/ drive worse?

Have just some new boots with toe sliders so feel more comfortable if I have to kick a panel or two when passing failing that they will get the usual raised WTF hand!!!

Heh, my first legal day on the bike, a woman tried to change lanes into where I was riding. She was looking at her phone so I honked at her and sped up past her in case she didn't react fast enough.

This new cellphone law sucks >:

[rustic101]

Relax and go read some more of that book.

And post up the next instalments.

Lol, I was given a warning for potential breach of copy right... Thought it best to stop

[Katman]

Lol, I was given a warning for potential breach of copy right... Thought it best to stop

Well that's a shame.

We can only hope that the part that people have read on the thread will be enough to encourage them to get their own copy.

Personally I was hoping to read it all for free.

[oldrider]

Remember the guy that threatened a gun shop assistant with a knife?

The silly bastard got shot!

That's about the equivalent of a bike rider threatening a car or anything else on the road!

I have done my balls a few times though but it's a waste of time really, I get more agro off the back of the bike then.

She realises the futility of it but women have always been more practical than us silly hot headed buggers!

[PirateJafa]

i kick their car then pop a wheelie

[quickbuck]

And the other week in my tintop taking my dad to the airport, waiting to turn right at a stop sign T-intersection a campervan coming from the left decides to turn down the sidestreet, and get this... comes past me on my inside into the lefthand lane
:

Yup, pretty standard for somebody who parked their car in a country where they last drove on the other side of the road only 12 hours before.

[Shadows]

A car driver received the ultimate retaliation today, just South of Kaiapoi.

He was overtaking a truck and trailer on a bend, where he can't possibly have seen what was coming in the other direction.

What was coming happened to be a motorcyclist, who had to swerve clear of the roadway, out onto the shoulder, to avoid becoming a hood ornament on the cars bonnet.

The ultimate retaliation then happened.

See, the motorcyclist was a Police motorcyclist on his BMW 1200RT-P, including flashing lights etc. The retaliation will play out in court shortly, as the driver was charged with dangerous driving.

Anone beat that for retaliation?

Now if the cops were allowed to carry guns he could have done us all a favour and just shot the fucker.

[mattian]

Road rage only escalates the situation with one party trying to get "one up" on the other for some kind of percieved injustice. It amazes me how people who are totally in the wrong can justify it to themselves and take the moral high ground. There are people out there with a bee in their bonnet JUST! because you ride a bike, and are looking for an excuse to intimidate you because they seriously believe that cars are the only thing that should be on the road.
Had some guy beep his horn and give me the finger just because I filtered past him one day, I gave him the finger back...... situation escalates, he dangerously overtakes me, stops in the middle of the road and swerves towards me as I try to get past him. What did I do wrong??? nothing, he felt that everything that had transpired was some kind of personal affront against him. Its best to just get the hell out of there when that happens.

[Woodman]

Generally I just shake my head in pity. if you really have a go at someone they get all wound up as well, and it becomes a whos the biggest fuckwit competition.
If you just shake your head they feel quite stupid and may possibly learn from it.

At the end of the day most incidents are not deliberate in my experience