My First Road Rage, How To Handle It?

[Seven5O]

So today, as I was riding home from school I witnessed my first serious road rage in a whole year.
I still don't get what I did wrong. I was doing the speedlimit, the car after me started tailgatting and honking. I turned around to see what was wrong, he flipped me off. He passed me then at full speed and cutting off in front of my way too close. I had to do an emergency break of I'd hit his rear. After a while I had to chance to pull next to him, which I did to ask him whats wrong. He provoked me, called me a f*cking retard and such. He didn't say why he was angry at me or anything. Only that he would run me over next time he sees me on the road. I was shocked so I just drove off without further listening to all his shouting.

So I'm wondering if I could do anything to prevent such things from happening? Or should I have reacted differently? What do you think? And do you have a roadrage story?

I think your reaction was right for you. Some people would react differently which is right for them. You cant do anything differently, an asshole is an asshole. Lol

 

[TamaRider]

Just calm down and ride off. Your safety is more important.

 

[CDA441]

I've never witnessed such a bad road rage in my motorcycling career (but I'm riding for almost over a year now)
Only "Road Rage" I got was a trucker honking at me, because he overlooked me when I was overtaking him (and he wanted to overtake too, but I was faster).
I didn't hear what he said because I had my eaplugs on, I only heard some shouting.
Afterwards I just left the guy behind.
I'm quite of a rager myself, If some people just don't watch out or keep their eyes on the road, I get mad if they almost cause a crash.

Sometimes running from them doesn't even work, they just follow you till you reach your destination. Best thing to do is drive down a dead end (for cars) but not for bikes.
That will get them to lose their mind.

 

[ScootWook]

So today, as I was riding home from school I witnessed my first serious road rage in a whole year.
I still don't get what I did wrong. I was doing the speedlimit, the car after me started tailgatting and honking. I turned around to see what was wrong, he flipped me off. He passed me then at full speed and cutting off in front of my way too close. I had to do an emergency break of I'd hit his rear. After a while I had to chance to pull next to him, which I did to ask him whats wrong. He provoked me, called me a f*cking retard and such. He didn't say why he was angry at me or anything. Only that he would run me over next time he sees me on the road. I was shocked so I just drove off without further listening to all his shouting.

So I'm wondering if I could do anything to prevent such things from happening? Or should I have reacted differently? What do you think? And do you have a roadrage story?

Road rage is not conducive to riding...if a cager starts to rage, drop a gear and disappear.

 

[agentmole]

Buy a dash cam. Tesco had some cheap Vivitar ones with clamps for £25! Got one on my ER5, record the behaviour, get home, pass it to the police!

 

[RiderInRed]

I say buy a damn gun! helps a lot!

 

[whingnut]

People are dicks,

Drop a gear and disappear, or turn off and go another route. Dont try to understand morons

Damn straight its not worth it. i tried to talk to a guy in a f250 once and he repeatedly tried to run me off the road until i was able to get away. the law of tonnage is on their side.

 

[JoshAFJ]

This is why I always have a camera on. I personally would probably confront the person because that's just how I am....but honestly you should do whatever you can to remove yourself from the situation because honestly they're in a car, you're on a bike....they're going to win if they want to.

 

[DanielJ]

I had a dumb female pull out of her driveway infront of me just yesterday. Had to almost emergency stop to prevent myself riding into the back of her car!... I was in rage mode while following, plus how to back it up with a little "action"... but by the time she pulled off further down the road I thought, this just isn't worth it and carried on my journey. I actually felt good for not escalating the situation.

"Non-event. Life carries on....".

 

[DanielJ]

Also not to forget, WE are the vulnerable one(s) here, on the bikes, the car driver can quite easily cause us (and our bikes) ALOT of damage should they get totally out of control (mental breakdown). Is life worth that hastle?

 

[CDA441]

Another tip for the countries where lane splitting is legal: just lane split away from them