Well, at least you can take comfort in the fact that you and you're bike are still in one piece and tomorrow is a brand new day. And you can pray that it'll be better.

I happen to believe in karma and expect that the cager will one day **** off the wrong person, and you can use your imagination there to make yourself feel better.

I used to do the beltway brawl back in my college summer break days driving a delivery truck, so I don't envy you in the least. I used to make my deliveries during off peak times and it still was nuts. But I didn't let it frustrate me, I got paid by the hour, not by the delivery, and my suervisor knew enough about the crappy traffic to pad the delivery schedule anyway, so it was great to be one of the few who wasn't stark raving mad just to get somewhere in a hurry.

 

i feel for you tanranger. there definetly is a palpable negative feeling from cagers in general towards bikes. the cagers with light bars aren't real crazy about us either. at least 4 or 5 times a week i either get someone that never saw me or saw me and decided i looked like the guy that robbed his house last week. it really boogles my mind. i've got to stop wearing that ski mask.

today on the way home im minding my own business (im quite calm for weeks after a ticket) and this young lady, and i use the term loosely, in a celica decides she needs to blow past the biker with an inch to spare then take turns in two lanes...


just breath in and breath out..

 

Road rage. You & your bike did a little intigating when you "so I whip around him" in " RUSH-HOUR! and D.C. has the second worst rush-hour in the country." I figure you must have had simmilar experiences like this prior. I know I've had more than a few. You were shaken by his little adolescent temper tantrum.... I've gowtta big cawaraaahh, n I'm gonna make you scawared.(say out loud while puckering up like Shirley Temple singing "Good Ship Lollypop").

I say, unless you ride like Grandpa Walton, you're going to have to expect that behavior from a percentage of cagers.

As for the rest, I hope your friend gets past his cheating ways. And as for the beer, it doesn't love you. Think of the times you've loved it too much, and how it turned on you. Some love, married at the alter of the porcelain god, or supporting the Tylenol manufacturer.:smilewink

 

As for the rest, I hope your friend gets past his cheating ways. And as for the beer, it doesn't love you. Think of the times you've loved it too much, and how it turned on you. Some love, married at the alter of the porcelain god, or supporting the Tylenol manufacturer.:smilewink

Yes, and you'll spend all of your money loving beer. But at least beer won't cheat on you, unless you're on a diet.

 

Actually 1 beer does love you. 2 beers love you. 3 beers love you. 4 beers, they like you. 5 beers well they can't hurt you. 6 beers HATE you, at 6 beers they start to team up to kick your livers a$$. 6 or more and the beer takes on a pack mentality and they really do not love you.:yell:
Sorry to hear about your cager close call.

 

You should just do what I do. Keep a couple golf balls in your pocket for occasions like these. When some a$$hole in an SUV with a cell phone strapped to his head pisses me off, he gets the golf ball treatment. Always cheers me up!!

 

You should just do what I do. Keep a couple golf balls in your pocket for occasions like these. When some a$$hole in an SUV with a cell phone strapped to his head pisses me off, he gets the golf ball treatment. Always cheers me up!!

Nice advice !:laugh: I know a guy that keeps a large metal bearing with him for same reason, but he's never used it. Yeah, that shouldn't **** off a cager too much, a golf ball smashing his windshield. You'd be safe after that.

 

now i've heard of doing that with pennies but golf balls? you're asking to be run down!

maybe if you could do it a little more discretly then just pitching them back like have some james bond secret panel open up under the seat and spray the car behind you with oil.

 

You should just do what I do. Keep a couple golf balls in your pocket for occasions like these. When some a$$hole in an SUV with a cell phone strapped to his head pisses me off, he gets the golf ball treatment. Always cheers me up!!

No offense, but thanks a lot, you stupid butt-head. That same @$$hole then will go out and make anybody on 2 wheels the object of his road rage after you pull that idiotic stunt. Do us all a favor and don't sink to that kind of level. If executing that kind of retribution makes you feel good about yourself maybe you should give up riding. Anyway, it's a danger to any bystanders, no matter what you throw.

mightymax my :moon: . More like mightymoron.

Thanks for the satire, Med and Culp, but sometimes you have to be blunt with these types of schmoes.

 

Br-rr-rr-rr-ringgg

Br-rr-rr-rr-ringgg

Hello, Flaming's R Us, can I help you ?

Culpepermamm's a PENNY PINCHER !!!


errrr, ZedKick, I don't think he was serious. But if he was...how can I be blunt about this.....

 

errrr, ZedKick, I don't think he was serious. But if he was...how can I be blunt about this.....

Is that a rhetorical question?

Even if he wasn't being serious it's not very wise to be suggesting it. Could give somebody the wrong influence. However those who are wise enough wouldn't even consider doing what he suggested. It may or may not be normal to think about it half-heartedly, you be the judge. But to write it down, even in jest. That ain't right.

Not to say I haven't hit a car with a golf ball before. But they should never have designed a dogleg par 5 where the fairway turn is yards away from a four laner without any netting or other type of barrier

 

No offense, but thanks a lot, you stupid butt-head. That same @$$hole then will go out and make anybody on 2 wheels the object of his road rage after you pull that idiotic stunt. Do us all a favor and don't sink to that kind of level. If executing that kind of retribution makes you feel good about yourself maybe you should give up riding. Anyway, it's a danger to any bystanders, no matter what you throw.

mightymax my :moon: . More like mightymoron.

Thanks for the satire, Med and Culp, but sometimes you have to be blunt with these types of schmoes.

You having a bad day there Zed?? :Wow1:

 

You having a bad day there Zed?? :Wow1:

No. I'm having a bad 3 months. It'll be better when me and my bike are back in sunny FL. :yell: North!

 

No. I'm having a bad 3 months. It'll be better when me and my bike are back in sunny FL. :yell: North!

Sunny Florida=Sunny disposition, eh? :smilewink I feel like moving to Florida myself at the moment.

 

Sunny Florida=Sunny disposition, eh? :smilewink I feel like moving to Florida myself at the moment.

It'd be actually tolerable, even without being able to ride, if the job that I'm here for didn't absolutely positively suck. I've spent the earlier part of this year on travel for another project from Feb to June. Even though I got punchy from not having my daily ride, the work was challenging enough to keep me from not thinking about it all the time. (Although, I actually got back every week or so with a weeks layover, so I got to recharge myself, which helps.)

I've learned my lesson though. My inner voice told me before I left that something was fishy about this assignment, but I was kind of pressured to go in order to remain employed. Not anymore. No job is worth keeping if you're forced to do lackey work, even if it sucks being unemployed for a little bit and it won't promote your career any. So if I'm asked to do something like this again, and the project is lame, I'm not going.

 

Yet another bad experience

I've got a bad morning that tops yours without a moments thought. I was on my way to work a 5:45 am this last summer. I was on the main highway, a lovely 2 lane in each direction. I was in the right hand lane tooling along waitning for my left hand turnoff to come up. Not in too much of a hurry and not wanting to slow down faster traffic. These 2 semis are coming up on my left and I don't have to get over yet so I figure I'll wait for them to pass. Lo and behold they don't both make it by before I HAVE to get over. I signal my turn cleanly and get between them about 15 ft. off of the front semis rear bumper. Don't want to interfere with either of them, I just want to go to work. I didn't slow down, or increase my following distance. I just hung there for a little bit waiting for my turn lane. Apparently I somehow managed to **** off the rear guy somehow because he straddles the line and pulls up right next to me. Mind you this semi is now 15 ft. off of his "buddies" bumper and four feet away from my right foot. He then re-occupies the entire lane and forces me over into oncoming traffic, still no turn lane see. I only had to dodge one car but that's not much of an "only" at a combined speed of about 120 mph. I made my turn and stopped for the deep breath, thank God, clean out my shorts moment, and headed on to work. My boss forgave me the three minutes that I was late.

I talked to a cop about it and believe it or not here's what he said, A vehicle is considered a deadly weapon especially when it is used like that.

My next question, so then if I really wanted to I could draw on and/or shoot at him?:AR15firin

His answer, Yes but I don't recommend it!:slap:

 

You having a bad day there Zed??

Oh come on. Nothing can be worse than the time cop suggested defecating on the hood of someone's car.:laugh: Yeah, those were the days... my friend... No ! Don't do it.....We thought they'd never end.... Resist the urge to sing !!!...We'd sing and dance forever and a day...... Oh, it's no use....
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days.

 

Had something similar to the topic happen to me. It was shortly after I got my bike. A buddy of mine was riding with me who has been riding for many years.

Anyway, we pull into a Lowes parking lot to chat a bit, and then decide we will continue to head north into town. We go to pull out onto the highway. I pull out first and have plenty of time, the closest vehicle was a minivan pulling out of another store further south from us. So there I am tooling along and I notice my friend is not there with me yet, he usually rides staggered up from me. I take a look back to see where he is, and all I can see is the windshield, hood, and bumper of a van that was running so close to me, the little road grit coming off my rear tire was shooting under the van. So, I open it up a little to get some breathing room. Didn't work, they stayed right on my tail. Finally, my buddy came to my aid and was now running right beside me. As he passed this van from hell, they swerved to nail him as he was right beside them.

So now, we are in front of this idiot with no signs of him backing down at all. By this time we looked and could see that it looked like a teen driving. We both look at each other, both nod, and do something insane. We dropped a gear and just slowed down. By all rights he should have run one of us down, because by this time we were in two different lanes. Finally this van passed me in the turning lane and now we were behind him. We stayed behind the van and followed it to a local restaurant. We sat and watched a car load of teens get out of it. My buddy finally said f**k it and went flying up to the car. Meanwhile, I stayed back and called the local P.D. on my cellular.

I rolled up behind my buddy who was getting trashed talked to by this little punk. He spent a lot of time having to pick up his jaw when the police rolled up behind us. The cop on duty turned out to be a friend of ours. (bonus) He asked us what happened and we told him, the kid said we were throwing golf balls at his parents minivan. The cop looked and said, hmm no dents. Why don't we get your parents up here and I'll see how they like hearing you trying to run down and kill two people. Seeing the kid start to panic was enough to make me feel better. He then told us to go on our way. To this day I don't know if he ever had the kids parents come up or not.

Payback was ours, and no golfballs were needed!!

 

Good story, Matt. And with a moral ending That van sounds like the Creeper's truck in Jeepers Creepers... HONK HONK !!

 

Payback was ours, and no golfballs were needed!!

One of the best "the end justifies the means" I've seen in a long while. No harm, no foul...but you came away laughing... and that's a good thing.

That's one of those "I wished I could have been there moments."

 

and now that i'm already years past, thats why the driving age should be raised.

 

Payback was ours, and no golfballs were needed!!

Believe it or not our law system does work, as long as all of us are willing to abide by it.
You did a good thing by reporting the incident ASAP.
Right now I'm trying to get our local officials to add into the driving tests and curriculum a section that states the criminal inplications of reckles driving and using the vehicle as a weapon.
Many people think it's just good fun to run someone of the road or cut them off, but they don't realize they can be charged with a felony if someone gets hurt.

 

Because that happened it has changed my riding style.

1. I am now A LOT more aware of what is going on behind me now.
2. I always leave with my cell phone, where before I did not. (Which is odd since I work for the phone company)
3. I found out just how well the bike does do when drove, shall we say, agressivly.

I'm glad you all liked the story. It is truely one of those times where you just had to be there.

 

Right now I'm trying to get our local officials to add into the driving tests and curriculum a section that states the criminal inplications of reckles driving and using the vehicle as a weapon.

Good for you, Ces. Maybe you can get help from the AMA, through their "Motorcyclists Matter" campaign: http://www.amadirectlink.com/legisltn/motorcyclistsmatter/index.asp

 

Good for you, Ces. Maybe you can get help from the AMA, through their "Motorcyclists Matter" campaign:

We're using their material and MSF material. Hopefully it will be heard and spread throughout the states.
Since we're not alone in pushing these ideas, I know the different authorities in transportation will soon have to do something about it.