Anybody had this happen?

**unstuck** · 16th May 2011, 22:48

http://www.bikerspost.com/forum/topi...used-of?ref=nf

Had this sort of thing happen to me a couple of times,people taking exception to the fact that i am going to pass them.Luckily i have never been hurt by it,apart from a sore foot once from kicking some little shits door on what i presumed was his mummy or daddys car.

**jaffaonajappa** · 16th May 2011, 23:07

Nope. Never come across that - the real mccoy.
But....often come across young fuckhead citydwellers, usually well dressed, manicured, and sitting in their fucking air conditioned shitboxes, that deliberately close riiiiight up to the car in front of them when they see you approaching in city traffic - so you cannot squeeze in. Or slowly touch left/right so theirs no room for you to lane split. Not saying these fuck=heads would actually let a contact occur - but they sure do deter you from trying to pass.

Angry? Yeah you bet.
Headbutted their sidewindows while wearing a full face helmet? Not yet.

**skinman** · 16th May 2011, 23:19

yep
coming back from up north after new year in the tailback at warkwarth had van swerve from far left of lane to centreline as I came passed, & yes he had seen me coming as I wasnt going that fast. Hurt hand as punched mirror but it swung right around

Quite common when splitting on southern Mway to have cars try to block by driving on the lines, but I dont go there any more, yeh

**unstuck** · 16th May 2011, 23:23

Causes people to do that shit,i cant understand it.Its like they must feel like your trying to show them up or making them feel insecure or some shit.cant get my head around it.

**Virago** · 16th May 2011, 23:27

An extreme case, but that sort of shit happens all the time.

"Safe" in their caged world, many will act out Road Warrior / Road Sheriff fantasies, using their ton-and-a-half of wheeled steel as a Transformer-type weapon to control others.

Twice in the last year I've had people swerve across the road in an attempt to block an overtaking move.

More common is the roar of acceleration to block someone who indicates a desire to change lanes.

Angry little people with tiny minds...

**superman** · 16th May 2011, 23:29

Originally Posted by skinman

yep
coming back from up north after new year in the tailback at warkwarth had van swerve from far left of lane to centreline as I came passed, & yes he had seen me coming as I wasnt going that fast. Hurt hand as punched mirror but it swung right around

Quite common when splitting on southern Mway to have cars try to block by driving on the lines, but I dont go there any more, yeh

You split on the southern? I can't do it, it's sooo narrow compared to the northern. I couldn't work out if it's just afternoon traffic mentality that makes the space disappear compared to the morning trek into the city but there's definitely a lot less room.

Is it intentional road rage if I know a cars going to cut in front of me and I don't really brake when I could?

I don't want to cause an accident, I just want them to be scared into not doing it again. I know I shouldn't really do it... but man do I get angry when I have to brake when I'm trying to save fuel in ma car

**Scuba_Steve** · 16th May 2011, 23:42

Ive had it once dude in his "shiny" hilux wanted to stop me from using the bike lane so much, he even went as far as to force some dude in his honda accord off the road just to stop me passing... needless to say I just went round the other side of him

**DrunkenMistake** · 16th May 2011, 23:50

I have had a few boy racers try it on me, they didnt like the fact that they were pushing 140 and I was overtaking them at 170,
But I live down a road that only has 2 lanes, water on one side and a cliff on the other and alot of blind corners with the odd place to pass, I came up to one of those spots and there was a car infront of me, a ute, and a little further ahead was a truck or camper or something like that, its a 70km/h road and the ute was holding everyone up at 40 so this particular stretch your on the water side heading away from town so your on the left lane, and the road sweeps left then there is a blind right but there is a huge amount of space to safely over take and some, so I indicated and what not and over took the car and was about to overtake the ute and he stood on the gas and speed matched me, (this was when I was on my 250) I tried to slow down and get behind him and he done the same and all sorts, in the end I just scraped infront of him as a car came around from the aproching corner, a second longer and I would have been windscreen smear,
I have never been so close to having a head on collision, I could smell the car freshner..

**Virago** · 17th May 2011, 00:17

Originally Posted by DrunkenMistake

I have had a few boy racers try it on me, they didnt like the fact that they were pushing 140 and I was overtaking them at 170,
But I live down a road that only has 2 lanes, water on one side and a cliff on the other and alot of blind corners with the odd place to pass, I came up to one of those spots and there was a car infront of me, a ute, and a little further ahead was a truck or camper or something like that, its a 70km/h road and the ute was holding everyone up at 40 so this particular stretch your on the water side heading away from town so your on the left lane, and the road sweeps left then there is a blind right but there is a huge amount of space to safely over take and some, so I indicated and what not and over took the car and was about to overtake the ute and he stood on the gas and speed matched me, (this was when I was on my 250) I tried to slow down and get behind him and he done the same and all sorts, in the end I just scraped infront of him as a car came around from the aproching corner, a second longer and I would have been windscreen smear,
I have never been so close to having a head on collision, I could smell the car freshner..

Congratulations on creating the world's longest sentence...

**DrunkenMistake** · 17th May 2011, 00:21

Originally Posted by Virago

Congratulations on creating the world's longest sentence...

Im going to be honest, I done it to lure in a grammar nazi..

**jaffaonajappa** · 17th May 2011, 00:32

Originally Posted by DrunkenMistake

Im going to be honest, I done it to lure in a grammar nazi..

Bwaha. hahahah. hahahaaaa.

**scissorhands** · 17th May 2011, 01:09

At lights I often weazel to the front on my scooter. The wee Honda hoofs off the line fairly well, but quite often it'll be a drag with one of the lead cages.

You just got ahead of them in line is all. (and you wear a gas mask)

**Hurrie** · 17th May 2011, 01:49

had that done to me a couple of weeks ago by a boy racer in a honda prelude. he was going about 40 in a 50 zone and slowing everyone up and i was right behind his car. We came up to a part of the road where it splits into 2 lanes, he chose the right lane. and i was about 6m behind him when i opened up the throttle to move over to the left lane and overtake him but he thought it would be funny to swerve (in every sense of the word) into my lane, naturally i braked but somehow i failed to flick the throttle off while reaching for the brake lever. Did a little rolling burnout right behind him before managing to pull in the clutch and ended up about half a meter from him absolutely crapping myself.

was really temped to get next to him and punch through his driver window

**Urano** · 17th May 2011, 03:36

"his bail COULD be revoked"???????

let me understand: this little idiot intentionally wanted to kill someone just because this latter stupid tried a left pass, and this dear mummy heart judge doesn't even keep him away from driving again?

...and i thought great judges were all here in italy....

**unstuck** · 17th May 2011, 07:21

Originally Posted by Urano

"his bail COULD be revoked"???????

let me understand: this little idiot intentionally wanted to kill someone just because this latter stupid tried a left pass, and this dear mummy heart judge doesn't even keep him away from driving again?

...and i thought great judges were all here in italy....

I think you will find that the officers have said that the biker was making a completely legal manouver.