Cage drivers definitely getting dumber

**nzvlogger** · 7th March 2012, 17:20

I swear to god someone tried to knock me off my bike today on my way home, going down rosebank road where the lanes merge in to 1 just before the schools (all this is under 25km/h by the way) and i went around a car at about 15km/h and the cock sucker beeped his horn and closed the gap, probably about 100cm from my leg. SO.. next time i see you Mr. Red Vectra B Sedan with 2 young girls/kids in the back, i might just smash knock your mirror off.

I would say a huge percentage of lights im waiting at, most of the time there will be someone running a red light, if its not that, its some dick pulling out from the side of the road without looking back, or some tart on a phone... really, what would that dude have done if he actually knocked me off? got mad at me because he was being a cock? (after he picked his tooth from my helmet anyway)

Sick of it, rant over

**Gremlin** · 7th March 2012, 17:35

Went around a car?

Define...

btw... 100cm is a metre... that's plenty

**nzvlogger** · 7th March 2012, 17:38

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Went around a car?

Define...

btw... 100cm is a metre... that's plenty

Ok, so lane goes from 2 into 1, im in the left lane, red vectra is in the same line in front of me, traffic slows to a near stop, i go slightly to the right (at about 10-15km/h basically jogging speed) and in between the red car on the left and the car on the right, the guy in the red car beeps his horn an proceeds to veer right into the middle of the lanes. that explain it?

**nzvlogger** · 7th March 2012, 17:39

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Went around a car?

Define...

btw... 100cm is a metre... that's plenty

ah lol sorry i mean 10cm, probably not even that. if i hand moved my heel out it would have touched his wheel.

**iYRe** · 7th March 2012, 17:53

going down roscommon road I "merged" from the left lane into the right where it goes two into one. Some guy didnt like it and snuck up on the right and slowly pushed me over to the left.. at the time it was pissing down with rain, and I realised I was not going to be able to stop for the rapid approaching parked car on the shoulder..

Had to abandon the road, cross some wet soggy verge (sliding sideways) and then ride on the footpath a few hundred metres and get back into the traffic.

I used to be a bouncer,.. and I could see by the look in his eye that if I stopped it was going to be fisticuffs.. in my area, you never know what some dude is going to have in his pocket so I decided discretion was the better form of valour.

Not the easiest manoever on the Volusia I can tell you..

**paturoa** · 7th March 2012, 17:55

Remember that 1 in 100 people are complete fucking arseholes, without brains, and you'll be fine.

Plan b, get the rego and go make a formal complaint at the local popo station.

**nzvlogger** · 7th March 2012, 18:00

Originally Posted by paturoa

Remember that 1 in 100 people are complete fucking arseholes, without brains, and you'll be fine.

Plan b, get the rego and go make a formal complaint at the local popo station.

Yea i wish i did, but it was wet and i was trying to concentrate on not falling of while flipping the bird at the same time lol. next tim ill forget the finger and get the plate.

**Madness** · 7th March 2012, 18:01

So you didn't get your knee down then?

**nzvlogger** · 7th March 2012, 18:04

Originally Posted by Madness

So you didn't get your knee down then?

lol i tried!

**Zedder** · 7th March 2012, 18:11

Originally Posted by CdTDroiD

Yea i wish i did, but it was wet and i was trying to concentrate on not falling of while flipping the bird at the same time lol. next tim ill forget the finger and get the plate.

Yep, get the plate if you can. I also tend to hold the horn button down for a suitable time, like throughout the entire incident. It sends a message and also gets potential witnesses attention as well.

**nzvlogger** · 7th March 2012, 18:13

Originally Posted by Zedder

Yep, get the plate if you can. I also tend to hold the horn button down for a suitable time, like throughout the entire incident. It sends a message and also gets potential witnesses attention as well.

Good point man, funny thing was i had my helmet cam on until it started raining 2 mins before it happened and decided to take it off (Just got the suction cup)

**Blackshear** · 7th March 2012, 19:09

Almost got collected by a cop cutting a reasonably-blind corner into my lane at a roundabout-intersection on the way home today.
Man was I fucked off

Also had the exact same thing almost happen to me with no less than two ambulances on the wrong side of the road, cutting a corner blindly (while I was stationary) and coming to a literal chode-bits distance from my physical being.

I think I've had more serious close calls with emergency vehicles operating way outside of the safety ranges. Fuck drink drivers, boy racers and druggies. They may be doing their job, but that risk, man.

**chasio** · 7th March 2012, 19:09

I had a twat in the "mean streets" of Northcote actually hit my leg once in similar circumstances. He had been stopped but closed the gap as I moved into it. So I stopped and got his attention (not rudely - I was assuming it was an oversight on his part) and he stopped again. I then continued and he went again while leaning on his horn, at which point I stopped and he kept going til he made contact the rear 3/4 area of the bike and my leg. I had too much adrenaline going to do anything other than to politely invite him to step out of his car, which he declined. Lights changed and I didn't fancy giving him a third bite at me, so I gave him the traditional salute and rode off in front of him. Didn't feel any pain until I found the good size bruise later that day.

Adrenaline is not good: I could have been paste if he had floored it while I was letting him know what I thought. If similar happens again I hope to (a) recognize the aggression and stay out of it but if I fail at that (b) to get his plate and maybe even a photo (on my phone) to go with it.

**nzvlogger** · 7th March 2012, 19:14

Originally Posted by chasio

I had a twat in the "mean streets" of Northcote actually hit my leg once in similar circumstances. He had been stopped but closed the gap as I moved into it. So I stopped and got his attention (not rudely - I was assuming it was an oversight on his part) and he stopped again. I then continued and he went again while leaning on his horn, at which point I stopped and he kept going til he made contact the rear 3/4 area of the bike and my leg. I had too much adrenaline going to do anything other than to politely invite him to step out of his car, which he declined. Lights changed and I didn't fancy giving him a third bite at me, so I gave him the traditional salute and rode off in front of him. Didn't feel any pain until I found the good size bruise later that day.

Adrenaline is not good: I could have been paste if he had floored it while I was letting him know what I thought. If similar happens again I hope to (a) recognize the aggression and stay out of it but if I fail at that (b) to get his plate and maybe even a photo (on my phone) to go with it.

Very good advice.. i think people loose it these days and do stupid shit without thinking to much, i.e. give some nut case the fingers and he runs down a bike.

**FJRider** · 7th March 2012, 19:21

Originally Posted by CdTDroiD

Ok, so lane goes from 2 into 1, im in the left lane, red vectra is in the same line in front of me, traffic slows to a near stop, i go slightly to the right (at about 10-15km/h basically jogging speed) and in between the red car on the left and the car on the right, the guy in the red car beeps his horn an proceeds to veer right into the middle of the lanes. that explain it?

That I believe is called lane-splitting. Some car drivers don't like that. And get quite aggresive.