How do you deal with the high number of idiots in cages?
I'm pretty fed up with the standard lie "I never saw you." taken from the same book of lies as alcoholics when asked by a cop how many beers they had a "I've had two beers officer." How are people with licenses so careless with the way they drive? I've been tailgated so close I thought about offering them a helmet so I wouldn't get a ticket for having a passenger with no helmet. The texter slamming into my lane, that mouthed the words "I wasn't texting." after coming so close to me I put my hand flat on her door. I love riding, and I pay attentino to those around me, but wow! How is it some of these indiots are still on the road, and how do others deal with them?
2011-11-17T17:51:55Z
I've thought about carrying an automotive nut and bolt that's been sat in a salt water bath so it's corroded. Hard to prove where that came from if it looks like it's been out on the road for a while. Tailgaters are the worst. Even when it's raining they just won't back off. I let them slide by me, but some of them have come so close to takign out my rear tire when they squeeze in a space not big enough, I've followed them on occasino and given them a piece of mind. I don't do that very often. the other guy pretty much has to be an award winning idiot for that to happen.
vgamerboy2011-11-17T19:56:27Z
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I've been Lucky that I've never been THAT close to tailgaters...
But I'd probably follow them to a stoplight, come up Next to them. and Just Take a Wild Punch at their Driverside Window Or Hulk Smash their Hood. Both Equally Effective
Whats the WORST is down in the southern states we got all the rednecks that like to go "muddin' " So their Ford 350's are up on >2 Foot LIFTS.. I've seen one I could LITTERALY have ridden UNDER if not for the Axle to Clothesline me...
At that Point You just get out of Gravedigger's way... (Nobody is going to get the Monster truck Refernce here)
I like your Idea with the Rusty/ Corroded Bolt. Just Throw it Backwards threw their Front Windshield.. Claim it was Kicked up by your rear tire. "Probably wouldn't had happened if you weren't Tailgating" That will teach em.
If you're not a serious massive threat, you don't exist for them. Not much you can do except stay awake and try to keep a bit more room around you especially in front. An extra second 'in trail' buys a lot of wiggle room if things get dicey. I deal with tailgaters by carrying a red plastic gas container, with the 'Gas' label picked out in yellow, on the back rack. (Filled with water though) Pointing to it is usually enough to back 'em off' a bit. Cop stopped me, regarding it as a 'dangerous condition" When I told him about the water and the tail-gater issue, he approved heartily.
Because without a license big business can't make money off of them. If you restricted driving to only those that actually are responsible there wouldn't be as many cash cows.
The trickle up economics of auto, insurance, medical, legal,body shop etc is that businesses profit thanks to that license.
So speaking sarcastically as a rider myself, if you get hit, lots of people stand to make money, but they are in business because there is a need for their services.
Didn't see you? louder than stock exhaust systems help, but there's not much you can do when someone has their stereo blasting.
Dealing with tailgaters is let em by, you never know when you've got a whack job just looking for a road rage excuse on your behind, otherwise i've heard of people building gadgets to inject oil into the hot exhaust for a cloud of smoke.
I had so many close calls with blind or careless people in cars, I expect them to cut me off or try to run me over. It still angers me when it happens but I try not to let it bother me. Last fall I was looking for a parking spot at Walmart following a Chevy avalanche, he was about a car length ahead of me. He stops I stop, his back up lights come on , I lay on the horn and start pushing my bike backwards and bang he's on top of me pushing me backwards. Finally he stops, I thought he was going to kill me. He apologized I took his plate number and his name, he didn't want to cooperate but he had no choice insurance fixed my bike. He had every excuse in the book to try and say it was not his fault. ///// I filled my bike with gas at a Canadian tire gas bar,I am inside paying for my gas, I come out and this old man backed into my brand new bike and pushed it backwards on the stand about 6 feet before the gas attendant stopped him. Now he is saying the bike came out of no where and it was the bikers fault. I had some special words for him....He did pay for the damages,,, The list goes on......
at 70 (years not mph) almost always drive a"cage" have a vespa 250 scooter which is fun
I realize the car drivders are JUST NOT MENTALLY TUNED to motorcyles
the see with thier eye but do not percieve with thier brains. it is only a split second delay to realize a cycle is there but that can be life or death ( for the cyclist)
Attitude is everything. it is YOUR life , ride in a big bubble and stayout of their way