Be nice to cars?

[Spaz]

some nob in a shyt box mirage forced me out of my lane monday morning. came around the outside of me in the middle of an easy right, me doing 60, him 70ish and had to tailgate the car infront to achive the badly executed pass.

I thought he was a propper nob and then I had my younger brother on the back so it really got under my skin. What does he gain from doing this? One car length and a couple of seconds! And for it he endangers me and my younger brothers health.

I ended up flipping him 'one' carreening down the left lane that was lined with parked cars. talk about mature

[James Deuce]

No one said you had to be nice to them.

Just ignore their bad behaviour. You aren't going to change their mind or behaviour by being rude and aggressive, and it can all go horribly wrong when you get angry. If they get angry it can get even worse.

You'll frustrate them and piss them off more effectively by ignoring them and disappearing off up the road, apparently unconcerned and undismayed by their utter incompetence.

[Pwalo]

No one said you had to be nice to them.

Just ignore their bad behaviour. You aren't going to change their mind or behaviour by being rude and aggressive, and it can all go horribly wrong when you get angry. If they get angry it can get even worse.

You'll frustrate them and piss them off more effectively by ignoring them and disappearing off up the road, apparently unconcerned and undismayed by their utter incompetence.

That's the way Jim. Nothing frustrates the impatient cager more than you quietly pulling away from them.

How's the Kwak going?

[Filterer]

Shocking really isn't it?

I still maintain that those who ride and have never driven a car / truck / whatever are missing something that the rest of us have.

I was sat at the lights in the car the other day, all of a sudden, bam, there's a 636 filtering down next to the car. I had no idea he was there until he was right next to the car.

I take that kind of experience in the car and apply it to my bike riding, I now know first hand how often car drivers don't see bikers in those situations.

Yip absolutly, i consider myself a very good car driver and very aware of whats going on around me but if im sitting at lights i dont stare in the rear view mirror! I think that if you are on a bike you need to understand that other road users even other bikers arent going to see you if you arent flowing with the general traffic....

That having been said yes car drivers do tend to miss us even when we are right in front of us

[Swoop]

...i consider myself a very good car driver and very aware of whats going on around me...

Unfortunately 99% of kiwi drivers suffer from delusions like that...

...car drivers do tend to miss us even when we are right in front of us

What?????

[Karma]

Unfortunately 99% of kiwi drivers suffer from delusions like that...

Well I ain't a kiwi... so I KNOW I'm a good driver.

[Milky]

Just ignore their bad behaviour. You aren't going to change their mind or behaviour by being rude and aggressive, and it can all go horribly wrong when you get angry. If they get angry it can get even worse.

That reminds me of a little story about mirror smashing infuriating a crazy driver who had a history of violent assault, and some unsavoury results. You never can tell how unbalanced they might be...

[Madness]

I was driving our cage (had the dog with us, doesn't like the bike) on the weekend and witnessed a car doing a U-turn right into the path of an oncoming Bike. Of course the Biker was actually conscious at the time and was able to avoid a collision. I felt like jumping out of my cage and giving the silly twat in the cage a good slapping.

On the road as a sales-rep for 12 years now I have come to believe that the more you're on the road, the more dumb shit you see, the more dumb shit you see, the less inclined to react/share opinions of others driving you become. I drove a signwritten vehicle for 6 years and recieved a couple of complaints to my boss(es). I couldn't believe how anal the complainants were considering the situations, if in their shoes I would have gotten over it in nano-seconds.....

Oh, nearly forgot. sAsLEX, you will be pleased to know that I have been forced into retraining myself with regard to throwing butts out my window. It isn't coming easy, but it's working.