superaar99
Wannabie Member
In no way deserved and the driver should be punished, but if you're gonna do stuff like that make sure you can get away.
Why Not To Be A Dick On A Motorbike
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Gnarling
Wannabie Member
Never understood why people chance enraging someone while on a bike. Mind you, i've deliberately screamed at someone calling them a f***ing idiot while giving the bird, while driving my truck and hauling my bikes. However i'm also in a 2 1/2 ton truck, people instigated and put me in danger and I didn't bother to get "revenge" or do something stupid.
ride512
Wannabie Member
No matter what this guy said to the BMW driver he didn't deserve to be hit.
That being said I've never seen the point in confronting people about their bad driving. I may complain inside my helmet, then I get as far away as I can and post the video of them driving poorly on YouTube.
Of course I live in Texas and your car is considered part of your home which means you can use deadly force if you feel your life is in danger. I'd rather not get shot.
That being said I've never seen the point in confronting people about their bad driving. I may complain inside my helmet, then I get as far away as I can and post the video of them driving poorly on YouTube.
Of course I live in Texas and your car is considered part of your home which means you can use deadly force if you feel your life is in danger. I'd rather not get shot.
Clint Love
It doesn't say CUNT, dammit!
No matter what this guy said to the BMW driver he didn't deserve to be hit.
That being said I've never seen the point in confronting people about their bad driving. I may complain inside my helmet, then I get as far away as I can and post the video of them driving poorly on YouTube.
Of course I live in Texas and your car is considered part of your home which means you can use deadly force if you feel your life is in danger. I'd rather not get shot.
Yeah, I'm in Texas too. People carry guns down here, including me, sometimes. In my vid where I got sideswiped by the van, I always get comments like "I would have forced that guy off the road and then dragged him out of the car and beat his ass." First off, if a guy doesn't mind hitting you with a car, how's a bike gonna "force" him to do anything? Second off, If I did follow him and commit aggravated assault on him (threatening and beating him), he would legally be justified in shooting me in the face because I followed HIM and created what the law would see as a separate assault incident, where I was the AGGRESSOR! I don't want to get shot in the face, right or wrong.
ToastRider
Geezer Ninja
Wonder if the law caught up to that guy. I sincerely hope so.
ToastRider
Geezer Ninja
My most recent vid was a similar incident where I called a cager out for being on her phone while driving. I was annoyed and irritated at that, partly because of the close pass that she made, partly because of her erratic driving, and partly because I know a guy who caused a very serious accident because he was driving and texting. The accident cost him his job, and the victim lost both legs.
After telling her to "GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE" I remembered this same video and thinking 'oh crap' so I started pointing at my camera while she was "telling me to have a nice day". Thankfully, the incident didn't escalate.
After telling her to "GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE" I remembered this same video and thinking 'oh crap' so I started pointing at my camera while she was "telling me to have a nice day". Thankfully, the incident didn't escalate.
CasumRides
Wannabie Member
It is always up to someone to be the mature one. In this case, it is the car driver who should have just bitten his lip. Yes the biker should have not split the lanes to go next to him and tell him and yes he should have had a better choice in words, but the retaliation is on the car driver. Injury and damage was a result of the car drivers actions, though I'm not sure if there was a brake check. That is just my two cents.
MrJoel
Rom: one-one-six unashamed
My friend just took his written test here in Louisville for his bike permit. He said every question on there about right-a-way had to be answered to the effect that it is stupid to challenge anyone's right-a-way on a bike...they can kill you. His favorite was a question about a bike and a dump truck get to a 4 way stop at the same time, who has the right away? The lady that graded his test told him good job answering that cause a biker wouldn't even dent the bumper! Sometimes we don't think when we get upset... 600 pounds of rider/bike is always gonna loose to an idiot in a cage.
TheMotorGamer
TheMotorGamer
Holy F.... a greater solution is to get a signal jammer, put it in your bike and make a switch on your handlebar.
When someone is calling, just drive next to them and turn the signal jammer on.
There was a newsarticle a long time ago about a teacher fighting the phone problem in class with a signal jammer
When someone is calling, just drive next to them and turn the signal jammer on.
There was a newsarticle a long time ago about a teacher fighting the phone problem in class with a signal jammer
In Australia you can be charged with illegal disruption of services. =(Holy F.... a greater solution is to get a signal jammer, put it in your bike and make a switch on your handlebar.
When someone is calling, just drive next to them and turn the signal jammer on.
There was a newsarticle a long time ago about a teacher fighting the phone problem in class with a signal jammer
ShadowBoxer
Wannabie Member
Just watched this. It turned out to be a lot less dramatic than I thought based on your posts.
Looks like the rider was a little too self-righteous with another judgmental and entitled asshole. In these cases, as we all know, the winner has the "right of weight".
I would guess the rider is either a new rider or a long time rider with many old and bad and stupid self-entitled habits (probably on and off the bike).
I would also guess he drives his car like a dick as well. What he's doing here is riding his bike aggressively as if he's in his car. It seems he's forgotten he's not...
It looks to me like the rider was intentionally riding slow and blocking the lane to antagonize and frustrate and rebuke the sinful driver.
Further, notice how he's in the number 1 lane riding slow where he should be going faster. There is nothing up ahead, so his speed is either unjustified and intentionally blocking traffic or he's lost control of his bike and he's searching for gears or something.
However I don't believe the second excuse. Notice how he keeps checking the number 2 lane. Why? Because he is waiting and expecting for the car to attempt to overtake him there. Guess what his plan was when the car attempted to pass? Give him a good talking to?
Unfortunately for him, besides encountering another fuque-wit, he is just stupid.
Telegraphing his intentions by constantly looking to his right, he warns the driver behind him and the driver decides to be clever and pass on the left.
Now I can't tell if the rider tries to block that when he realizes it's happening or he is really clipped by the passing car by accident. It happens around 00:33 and it looks like the car mirror hit the motorcycle somehow. As if the driver was trying to make it a close pass but unfortunately he does not know how wide his car is and clipped the motorcycle. There was also a car approaching in the on-coming lanes so he might have decided to move back over sooner than originally planned. I don't know, but it's interesting.
I'm sure the car driver did not do that on purpose but I'm also sure that they drove off in a panic realizing that things just got real and expensive by a few notches.
I would not be surprised if the driver already had problems on their license or some other kind of issues that made them want to "avoid any Imperial entanglements".
I don't know what you saw months ago, but now there is a notation up on the video asking for help and showing his collision fund information, or something like that.
If there is no other video explaining or discussing what happened during and after this... well I would find that silence rather telling.
Maybe the rider did not cause the accident, but it was certainly his foolishness that set things in motion and lead to the accident happening.
Looks like the rider was a little too self-righteous with another judgmental and entitled asshole. In these cases, as we all know, the winner has the "right of weight".
I would guess the rider is either a new rider or a long time rider with many old and bad and stupid self-entitled habits (probably on and off the bike).
I would also guess he drives his car like a dick as well. What he's doing here is riding his bike aggressively as if he's in his car. It seems he's forgotten he's not...
It looks to me like the rider was intentionally riding slow and blocking the lane to antagonize and frustrate and rebuke the sinful driver.
Further, notice how he's in the number 1 lane riding slow where he should be going faster. There is nothing up ahead, so his speed is either unjustified and intentionally blocking traffic or he's lost control of his bike and he's searching for gears or something.
However I don't believe the second excuse. Notice how he keeps checking the number 2 lane. Why? Because he is waiting and expecting for the car to attempt to overtake him there. Guess what his plan was when the car attempted to pass? Give him a good talking to?
Unfortunately for him, besides encountering another fuque-wit, he is just stupid.
Telegraphing his intentions by constantly looking to his right, he warns the driver behind him and the driver decides to be clever and pass on the left.
Now I can't tell if the rider tries to block that when he realizes it's happening or he is really clipped by the passing car by accident. It happens around 00:33 and it looks like the car mirror hit the motorcycle somehow. As if the driver was trying to make it a close pass but unfortunately he does not know how wide his car is and clipped the motorcycle. There was also a car approaching in the on-coming lanes so he might have decided to move back over sooner than originally planned. I don't know, but it's interesting.
I'm sure the car driver did not do that on purpose but I'm also sure that they drove off in a panic realizing that things just got real and expensive by a few notches.
I would not be surprised if the driver already had problems on their license or some other kind of issues that made them want to "avoid any Imperial entanglements".
I don't know what you saw months ago, but now there is a notation up on the video asking for help and showing his collision fund information, or something like that.
If there is no other video explaining or discussing what happened during and after this... well I would find that silence rather telling.
Maybe the rider did not cause the accident, but it was certainly his foolishness that set things in motion and lead to the accident happening.
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