Road Rage

**APPLE** · 31st July 2006, 20:59

hav'nt really cum across road rage,whilst riding.but not to say that it could'nt happen aye?

**DMNTD:Me** · 31st July 2006, 21:05

Originally Posted by Clivoris

...have to admit to enjoying the rush of justified violence.....

Damn I like that,awesome! Can I use it?
Personally if the other party has done something bad enough I hog in...to an extent. If someone is going to nearly kill me and then show a bad attitude I believe they are fair game.
Sure ok people do make mistakes and if some remorse is shown I tend to express my displeasure with sign language and remove myself promptly before becoming a Heke.
It's their choice in my eyes...it's dangerous enough riding a bike without having arrogant twats helping to up the statistics.
Whether I'm "right" or "wrong" I shall continue as I have.

**Filterer** · 31st July 2006, 21:06

Simple solution...ditch the L plates - problem all but dissapears!

**Ghost Lemur** · 31st July 2006, 21:31

I got to agree with the sensible posts here.

Why we all may had the desire to retaliate at times, think about this.

What about the innocent cagers who are sitting there in traffic, didn't see the incident. But what they do see is a biker come swimming past and proceed to kick in a cars door (or take off a mirror, or smash a window).

What are those cagers opinions going to be about us? What are they going to tell their cager friends? How is this going to have anything other than a negative effect.

There is no such thing as justified violence. I garantee that neanderthal who did the rearending had what he thought was justification for doing it.

At the end of the day, we have to be bigger men (and women) than them as we've got more to lose. Not just in the fact we're more vunerable on the road. But also because we (as riders) are a subculture. And like with the so called boyracers, if we find ourselves on the wrong side of public opinion, and in the spotlight, ain't no one but us going to cry over the politians and the beaurocrats coming down on us.

**Skyryder** · 31st July 2006, 21:34

Bottom line is that the driver is caged you're not. Some self discapline in these situations can be a life saver. If you are rammed from behind there is, as other posters point out, the failure to stop after an accident thing. I understand that there is also a charge of useing a vehicle as a dangerouse weapon. Any police on here know about this and when can it be used.

Skyryder

**Clivoris** · 31st July 2006, 21:41

Originally Posted by TL Rider

Damn I like that,awesome! Can I use it?
Personally if the other party has done something bad enough I hog in...to an extent. If someone is going to nearly kill me and then show a bad attitude I believe they are fair game.
Sure ok people do make mistakes and if some remorse is shown I tend to express my displeasure with sign language and remove myself promptly before becoming a Heke.
It's their choice in my eyes...it's dangerous enough riding a bike without having arrogant twats helping to up the statistics.
Whether I'm "right" or "wrong" I shall continue as I have.

Use away bro. There is definitely an elegant logic to delivering karma by fastpost, and being willing to reap the karmic return. I've been lucky so far.

**saltydog** · 31st July 2006, 21:44

Egg-celent indeed. A mirrored visor is a must, combined with the 'streetfighter' type side leg kick (only pretending of course) seems to have an amazing effect on the cagers as they see your boot flying at their window!
The middle east needs more than a cease-fire....

**oldrider** · 31st July 2006, 21:45

Originally Posted by mstriumph

no problemo - the yolk was on him, anyway ........

I would risk getting egg on my face just to say hello to a pretty girl too.

We all have our methods.

John.

PS: when I go up North again that gun shop will be my first port of call, I want one of those hand guns to fend off the cage ragers, seemed to work well for the shop keeper!

**Street Gerbil** · 31st July 2006, 21:45

Does "attempted assault with a deadly weapon" fly around here? In USA it was all the rage.

**Steam** · 31st July 2006, 22:10

I'm a bit of a psycho, so I don't know what's going to happen when I get my first nutter up my ass.

I've had a few road-rage incedents before, (where I was the roar-rager) on my BICYCLE of all the fucking stupid things, in which I pursued a car and smashed the window when I caught up at the lights, and then they took off because there were 4 guys in the car, and I guess they thought I was just insane for attacking their car, and so didn't want to go up against me. LUCKY, cos they woulda flattened me.

I got to do something about this anger problem. It only comes out when driving or riding. It's a different world when there's an engine involved.

**Shadows** · 31st July 2006, 22:37

Originally Posted by Squeak the Rat

Only phone *555 if you do not want the driver prosecuted. If you actually want the cops to do something then do as crashe et al says and go to the cop shop and fill in forms, or get on the blower to 111 and say "someone just tried to kill me".

*555's purpose is specifically NOT for having legal action taken against the other driver.

I disagree, I got some guy in a wanked up new Commodore nailed for running a couple of adventure bikes off the road into the gravel on the side of the road at Paekak.
I called *555 and chased the guy in my cage to 185 along the Mad Mile. When I caught up to him, I told the operator I was matching his speed at 165 and passed on the rego before I was told to back off. They were waiting for us at Paraparamu. I didn't even get a talking to for the speed I had just admitted travelling at, before I chased him I had told the operator that I would have to go pretty fast to catch him, they just said go ahead if I could do it, because they needed his rego.

When the guys on the bikes finally caught up they pulled over as well and had to "be restrained". They calmed down eventually and were sent on their way after a little talking to.

Any way, the wanker was booked for 80k in a 50k zone (that was what the cops saw) and reckless driving re running the bikes off the road, so *555 does work.

**Clivoris** · 31st July 2006, 22:56

Good outcome guy. You haven't got mounty genes by any chance?

**ZeroIndex** · 1st August 2006, 00:32

Originally Posted by Sparky Bills

Ride with no plate, have knee sliders, and scrape the shit out of the side of the car

Or have hard knuckled gloves, go up to the window and break the nose of the driver

both are fun, and will make you feel lots better.

make sure it's the Ceramic racing knee sliders, and Quasi's old-stock metal-knuckled-gloves.. those look crazy..

**ZeroIndex** · 1st August 2006, 00:34

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Wait till he's stuck in traffic then kick the shit out of him and/or his car.

Originally Posted by Grahameeboy

So what does that achieve Lou...............

if you'd have watched My Name Is Earl, you would realise that Karma doesn't have feet or hands, and sometimes, Karma uses your feet or hands to make a point/example