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Yesterday in the news road rage incident between a motorcycle and a full size pickup truck, the motorcycle lost, the motorcycle rider gave a hand signal to the pickup driver cause he was tailgating him, the driver of the pickup forced the motorcycle off the road causing the bike to crash, as the motorcycle driver was recovering in pain and picking up his bike the pickup driver turned around and came back and beat up the injured biker by kicking him in the face, the pickup driver got away the biker only got the first 3 numbers on his licence plate. This is a lesson, if ur riding alone, and someone in a full size pickup wants to harrass you, I suggest that you pull over and allow him to pass, if you wanta get into a war between a full size truck and ur bike, ur bike will lose. Be careful out there, I worry about you guys, I know you guys that own bikes are good guys and there are a lot of road rage car and truck drivers that are either mad cause their wife is cheating, or they are drunk, or on drugs or whatever.

I had a jackass tailgating me one time. He got close enough that I could see his truck in both mirrors at the same time. Twisted the throttle, took off, changed out of his way and slowed down. He passed and tried to mess with me a bit later after I caught him at a red light by going really slow. I just waited for a chance for a bike to pull forward and pass in a place that a truck couldn't and took off. Then took the long long way home.

You're better off going out of your way to avoid some jerk in a truck then starting a fight.

I hate people.

I was riding with a buddy, and 2 of our non-riding buddies were in their cars. We were all heading out to the beach. Similar situation arises... redneck in a truck starts tailgating the 2 bikes... getting very impatient. We are already doing 10 over, going with traffic. You couldn't get further without weaving in and out of traffic...and we like to keep a nice buffer. The two cars move to the right lane, give us(the bikers) the signal to juice it... so we get good distance, one car slips in behind us (between us and the truck) and the other stays in the right lane. Now Mr. Angrytruckpants has to go the speed limit for about 20 miles.... so he is back there weaving between the 2 lanes, angry at life... can't pass on the left due to the concrete divider, and he tried to pass on the shoulder but just about flipped his truck.

I guess it was a pretty immature thing to do.. but hey, it was my friend in the car's idea. I just happened to laugh about it.

He actually followed us until we stopped at the beach and he got out of his truck. I don't know what he thought he was going to do... the 4 of us are all around 6'0-6'2 180-230. Two of us are already wearing armor! haha. So he gets out of his truck yelling.. we really can't help but laugh at him. I wouldn't be suprised if he was already drunk (it was about 10am). When he stops screaming, my buddy just says "You shouldn't follow so close... it might give you a bad case of the speed limit."

I think he realized he wasn't going to get anything accomplished by just standing there staring us down (it only took him about 5 minutes to figure that out). So he got back in his truck and left. We promptly left and parked somewhere else, in case he had the bright idea to come back and mess with our vehicles. We later reported his plate # to the police for road rage...

Moral of the story: Cager friends are good for something. Oh, and don't f*** with packs of college kids. We find amusement in your frustration.

People are so messed up.

DivideOverflow wrote:Moral of the story: Cager friends are good for something. Oh, and don't f*** with packs of college kids. We find amusement in your frustration.

haha i have to confirm that

Amazing how you got the details. Here in NYC the news only gives so little when there is a bike accident when the driver of a car did something wrong and the opposite when the bike caused everything.

Anyhow, reporting stuff like that to the cops results in smirks from them when they see me on the bike. I now feel that many of them aren't heroes that we thought they were 4 1/2 years ago. In fact I wish we could go back to the time of 2 months after the attacks because people were actually nicer.

I don't want to seem to troll but I used to have faith in people's goodness but after the past 2 months I think selfishness takes over people.

JCViper528 wrote:Amazing how you got the details. Here in NYC the news only gives so little when there is a bike accident when the driver of a car did something wrong and the opposite when the bike caused everything.

Anyhow, reporting stuff like that to the cops results in smirks from them when they see me on the bike. I now feel that many of them aren't heroes that we thought they were 4 1/2 years ago. In fact I wish we could go back to the time of 2 months after the attacks because people were actually nicer.

I don't want to seem to troll but I used to have faith in people's goodness but after the past 2 months I think selfishness takes over people.

There is no point in getting mad over things that are out of your control. Life becomes alot easier if you keep that in mind. There are too many idiots in this world to start getting mad at strangers

MotoF150 wrote:as the motorcycle driver was recovering in pain and picking up his bike the pickup driver turned around and came back and beat up the injured biker by kicking him in the face

this is why a lot of bikers have concealed carry permits

And why we wear full-face helmets! Not to protect your face from the road, but to protect your face from cagers' lethal ninja kicks.

Road rage should be a felony.