What would YOU, do. If this happened to you?

I probably would do close to the same thing... although there's not a cop anywhere that could keep me from getting my hands around this guy's throat at least for a few seconds. It would be worth the pepper spray and 4 hours in cuffs. Things of this nature are public record: get the particulars, contact the DA and offer to testify. That will ensure he gets whats coming and give you true satisfaction that the system, although flawed, sometimes works even for us bike riders.

perhaps he may get a cell with "bubba"... that will give a new meaning to "rode" rage. hahahaha

btw: "man up" advice from the barts?? that sounds real good coming from someone that epitomizes the definition of poser. yeah it happens to him all the time because he's got no business out in the middle of the road on a frickin 10 speed.

.....and, uh... no I do not have Bud's with posers, mealy mouthed punks, or any other self-aggrandizing jerk...

I'm a boilermaker man. all night long. hard and heavy. Jagermeister in the winter from the freezer... all night long.

Well I would have been upset. I don't think I'd have done the high speed chase but I'd have followed him hoping he'd stop at a gas station or something. Say something to provoke him in front of the cameras, that way I could whip the pig snot out of his dumb ace and call it self defense with the footage to back me up.

Once I saw the cops though, I'd have just kept going. Here in the south, an angry big black guy is usually greeted with a billy club, pepper spray, and sometimes hot lead. Then they'd say calm down.

I'm a new dad and I'm finding stuff like this makes me mad too. I have to think now though. If I go to knock this guys teeth out he may have a gun and take me out. He's in a truck, I'm on a bike, he can just run me off the road or something worse.

I probably would have done the same. I think it was ok to tell the cops, hopefully they throw additional charges at him. I used to take off peoples rear view mirrors for such things. Most often than not anymore, I just give them the look and a f*** you and ride off. I kinda get more nervous about if they might be packing. I live in the mini van capital of the world. I also drove a service van for years and no how bad visibility is in them. If I think it was unintentional I let it slide and chock it up to the price of being free.

You were given a scare, by someone threatening your life (in your view and probably any sensible person's). But your reaction is beyond what is acceptable, it is natural for a few moments of adrenaline rush – followed by a few moments of reflection. If you had ridden up behind the police and, when he had a spare moment, offered to make a statement rather than wasting police time by forcing him to call for backup, you would have achieved more. It is rare enough for prats like that to be stopped, so when they are, the police need (calm, collected) witnesses to make the heavier charges stick.

You are also not doing yourself any favours if you cannot control your anger – rash instinctive action mixed with a bike can be a recipe for disaster.

I think you handled the situation pretty well, considering the circumstances. While a beat down might have been preferable with this idiot, at least you came out of it ok. As for the people crying about anger management issues, if there is ever a time to be angry, it's when a ton of metal operated by an inconsiderate azz hole almost plows into you and several other people, then continues to endanger others with their reckless behavior.

Hey, may be the guy was working for the government. They seem to do that kind of thing on a daily basis!

In Australia we have what we call Hoon legistlation where a road user can dob in a rules breaker and it will be checked out with the driver losing his car etc for a period of time depending on how serious his rule break wasI am a member of the Community Road Safety Council which started this idea and Im proud of your action in helping get that ideot off the road for awhile lets hope he has learnt his lesson Go Bikey Go.~~

Though your intentions were good you were in fact in the wrong.

You are not a police officer and you broke the speed limit to try and catch this idiot and in doing so endangered yourself & others with your speed then you threaten the guy with bodily harm - you were lucky the cops were decent !

You should have taken his number and all info of incident & notified the police !

You could have been in back of same cop car for speeding / dangerous driving & threatening behavior !

I agree with you BUT wrong is wrong in eyes of the law.

Take care & good riding.

I wouldn't have followed at that speed, but I would have followed. I would have talked to the cops after they got him pulled over. Screaming at the jerk would only get me bagged too, and nothing I had to say would make a difference to a jack like that.

I would have tried to press charges, for endangering the lives of several people. That guy shouldn't be on the road.

But then again, there's not much you could have done after the cops called the shots.

Scooter, Thank you - first off!

I guess I would have wanted to do the same thing but I wouldn't go 100 on my bike ever!

I was doing 45 and was almost killed.

I probably would have pulled over and called 911 to turn him in.

I'm glad they didn't arrest you!