I try to contain my rage when I'm on 2 wheels. Right or wrong the car is * always* going to win that argument. Just last week a ^@#$%@ poured a full cup of coffee out their window right in front of me on the freeway. If anyone deserved to be kicked, slapped, or run-over it was them, but ultimately a bike just isn't the vehicle for revenge.
-Kyle On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Kurt Nolte <[email protected]>wrote: > I have yet to have a door-kicker moment; I usually restrict myself to > several minutes of heavy profanity in my little bubble of helmet, or -glare > and a one-finger salute for the really bad ones. > > Two stories, one of which you guys already know, that of the woman who was > a chronic jerkhat toward bikers of all stripes around here. After being > nearly run off the road by the same woman in the same green two-door > Explorer for the second time, I bought a helmet cam and started recording. > I called in. I wrote incident reports. I gave police copies of the cam > footage, though most of it wasn't good enough for evidence. Finally I got > her face AND the license plate on the same chunk of footage, good shots of > each. Warrants went out. > > Turns out she was wanted in NJ, and was extradited to that state for their > first claim on her. Property damage, assault charges, grand theft, and a > possible attempted murder charge. > > The other one has a better ending, from the standpoint of having less > assholery (pardon the term, if you will). Riding home, getting the > sloooooooooow overtake (I don't tend to hammer it on the way home, right at > or just under the limit, gentle acceleration, and that sort of thing) on > the left from a car. I drop speed to force the pass, car pulls in front of > me, signals, I swap lanes as they turn. Now I'm on the left, with a car > coming up on my right. She makes it about even with me, suddenly signals > and starts to lane change mid-pass. Horn goes on, mirror check, hard > braking to put me behind her. She swerves back into her lane as we pull up > to a light. > > Girl looked like she was in her teens, didn't have her phone out or > anything, and she rolled down her window and was nothing but apologies as > soon as I pulled up at the light. Rather than rip her a new set of holes, I > just told her to be more careful and /look/ next time she wanted to move > the car. From the look on her face, I think she was more scared than I was. > Hopefully it sank in. > > Kurt > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Yea, they are in a cage and some of them think that gives them the right >> to bully you. I had a guy hit my handlebar with his mirror because he >> didn't want me to get in front of him at an alternating merge, despite the >> fact that I let the car in front of him go before me. I rapped his window >> with my fist and he tried to cut me off so I would crash into his fender. I >> avoided it and was going to dismount so I could kick in his door, because >> traffic had stopped. But a truck ahead of him saw what happened, and waved >> me in front, then blocked the guy for me. I had about 1 month riding >> experience at that time. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
