Have you ever been so furious from car stupidity that you've actually hit the car?

[zeocen]

I was just wondering..
Do I need anger management? Haha.

I went down to Papakura today to get some red rooster (yay for getting bottles with your combo, no need for cup holders!) and happily, on my way back I stop at a roundabout going up to alfriston.. I see this dude going into the round about not indicating - I assume he's just going straight and that I have the right-of-way, but I was cautious - and sure enough he swings around and I put on the brakes (not hard, I had ample room to breathe from the assumption that everyone on the road is ready to kill me).

Now this is my pet peeve, I just can't fathom how people can't indicate.. I really can't understand it. I shake my head and he sees me and gives me a dirty look, so I'm riding behind him for a few minutes (3 second rule, it had just been raining.. some puddles on the road).. he suddenly puts on his brakes and gives me the fingers.

At this minute I just lost it, I stopped easily because I wasn't close enough to be in trouble but the fact that he intentionally just tried to knock me off my bike sent me into a blind rage.. I accelerated to pass him - but not before punching his mirror as I fly by and take off into the sunset (so to speak.)

Yeah, a dickhead move on my part - but I just couldn't take it anymore, every freaking day this shit happens. How do you veteran riders deal with such idiocracy on the roads? Perhaps I just need to let things slide, but man, he really did push the right buttons consecutively


I bring this up because after thinking about it, I feel like a tool - even though he was in the wrong and did dangerous shit, he probably hates all bikers now because of my actions so I'm feeling kinda guilty and needed to confess my bad manners

[slinky]

Many many occasions i have felt like doing that.
only thing stopping me is, Hit car - lose balance, fall off, make fool of self - and other such consequences. but had never actually thought about the person taking out their frustration on the next biker.

the fact that he was prepared to slam on his breaks, knowing forwell he could cause you to fall off would suggest he already hates bikes, or he suffers from road rage.

on another note, good shit! did his mirror break??

[imdying]

Yep... 'accidentally' took off the brakes at the last minute on some stupid woman that pulled out in from of me (from a stop sign), and then stopped in front of me. Hopefully that big nasty dent in the drivers door will remind her to look a little harder.

[Donor]

Most importantly, how's your hand?

[Bartman10]

Guy hit me while I was riding my push-bike recently.

He just went straight through the give way. I rolled onto his bonnet, got up and proceeded to punch the bonnet a couple of times.

Cop showed up and said that he was in the wrong for not giving way ($150 fine), but I was much more in the wrong for punching his bonnet (2 years jail). Which seemed a bit like rough justice to me. The guy that failed to give way just about killed me, and all I did was punch a piece of mild steel plate to make a bit of noise and wake him up a bit.

In the end he let us both off with a warning, but it's made me think twice about punching a car again.

Bloody glad he wasn't in an SUV. Cars are much more forgiving to cyclists.

[MaPeXi]

The worst is that he is completely oblivious how dangerous his actions are with regard to other motorists (especially bikes). I was riding down SH1 the other day keeping to the limit and square in my lane. Next thing this woman in a volvo (of all things!?!?!) passes me in the lane to my left and comes into the lane i'm in literally a metre or two in front of me WITHOUT A FUCKN' BLINKER. Had she not seen me? It was broad daylight....but then as they say: "Ignorance is bliss"..

[far queue]

I was just wondering..
Do I need anger management? Haha.

Well, lets have a wee look see ...

Now this is my pet peeve, I just can't fathom how people can't indicate.. I really can't understand it.

Plenty of dicks like that out there, nothing too bad so far ...

.. he suddenly puts on his brakes and gives me the fingers. ... the fact that he intentionally just tried to knock me off my bike ...

Ahhh, now that different and just begs for retaliation.

... sent me into a blind rage.. I accelerated to pass him - but not before punching his mirror as I fly by ...

Fair enough, but just watch the blind rage bit. Smack his mirror off by all means, but keep control of yourself. If you lose control, then you have the potential to do something really dumb, and cause yourself injury.

How do you veteran riders deal with such idiocracy on the roads?

I've smacked mirrors off and kicked doors in the past, but I pretty much just let things slide these days. I just pass them and get another cage in between us so I'm safe and don't have to worry about the dick head.

... he probably hates all bikers now because of my actions so I'm feeling kinda guilty and needed to confess my bad manners

Don't worry about it, he hardly sounds like he had a lot respect in the first place.

[Disco Dan]

At this minute I just lost it, I stopped easily because I wasn't close enough to be in trouble but the fact that he intentionally just tried to knock me off my bike sent me into a blind rage.. I accelerated to pass him - but not before punching his mirror as I fly by and take off into the sunset (so to speak.)

Yeah, a dickhead move on my part - but I just couldn't take it anymore, every freaking day this shit happens. How do you veteran riders deal with such idiocracy on the roads? Perhaps I just need to let things slide, but man, he really did push the right buttons consecutively


I bring this up because after thinking about it, I feel like a tool - even though he was in the wrong and did dangerous shit, he probably hates all bikers now because of my actions so I'm feeling kinda guilty and needed to confess my bad manners

Well done! I had a similar case of road rage... some stuck up woman in a VW cut me off... woops.. you lost ya mirror there darlin... (not like half of em use them anyway...)

Yeah ya still a tool! And yes, gives a bad name to bikers etc... dont be afraid to give people the big finger if they misbehave though...

[XP@]

Yep... 'accidentally' took off the brakes at the last minute on some stupid woman that pulled out in from of me (from a stop sign), and then stopped in front of me. Hopefully that big nasty dent in the drivers door will remind her to look a little harder.

Done that to a taxi who stopped to double park on the bike park i was heading in to. Tiny mark on his door, then a large dent when he tried to open it (it took one massive effort to keep upright).

Also done some other silly things in the passed, I try now and remember
* I am not the only idiot on the road.
* Their attempts to kill me often pale in comparison to the stupid things i do.
* The more they go for me the sharper i will get.
* The sharper i get the more i will see and the less they can affect me.

[Disco Dan]

I am starting to think "Dr Evil" had it right....

"we need fricking laser beams attached to our heads!"

[zeocen]

on another note, good shit! did his mirror break??

Not sure, promptly after hitting it I thought "fuck that was a stupid move" and took off quickly, my hand feels fine donor, no I don't need mouth to mouth!

[avgas]

mate i just have learnt to predict morons. its defensive driving - everyone is a moron. Even when i see you on you car/bike....you are a moron (unless you prove otherwise).
Making that assumption makes everything alot more predictable.
I've had my biker youth though, kicked in doors, smashed off mirrors....but its all in vain, for every moron you fix - 100 take his place.
Its a national thing too - I've had same amount morons in the country where i grew up then in the city.
Everyone is a moron, unless proven sane.

[phantom]

"Accidentally" smashed someones indicator lens when he was parked across the footpath and I couldn't get past while pushing my son in his wheelchair

[kiwifruit]

yes i have

be careful, you could end up in a bad situation

[quallman1234]

I was thinking about this last night, i reckon we should contact someone who might make a doco about this, and maybe it will make some people more aware.
But i dobut this would happen .

Its the sad truth