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I was at a stop sign tonight, and just as I started pulling out, this guy blows through his stop sign (it's a four way) and looks right AT me..I could see the whites of his eyes..as he continued driving. He didn't even slow down. No look of anything but "You got a nerve riding on my street"

If I had a free hand (one was on the clutch the other the front break as I came to a quick stop ..thank you MSF) I would have "waved" at the jerk.

GRR!

Sorry. Got that out of my system now. Sometimes I wonder what goes through their heads?

Kaige wrote: Sometimes I wonder what goes through their heads?

I often think I would like it to be their windshields............
Kind regards, Wizzard

The other day I was making a left at a green light. There was a truck coming from where I was going, so he was making a right on red. (Legal here in PA, if it's clear) As I was rounding the corner he was just starting to pull into the intersection and SLAMMED on his breaks, I think he thought he was going to hit me, though he had acres of room. Then yelled something out his window. Green, red... I wonder who's got the right-of-way.

I gave him the one finger salute which may have been uncalled for. Then he turned his truck around and followed me for about a half a mile. Good times.

Forsaken wrote:Then he turned his truck around and followed me for about a half a mile. Good times.

Must've been one fast truck!

i was coming home yesterday into my parking lot theres a speed bump right in front of a 90degree turn, the speed bump is split in the center so i always go through the center. out of no where a truck came flying around the turn on My side of the road, sure i was in the middle but his entire truck was on my side. he decided to wave and yell at me like i was doing something wrong because he was on the wrong side? had i actually gone straight over the speed bump(my side) i would have had no where to go he would have hit me head on.

people think in parking lots they dont need to keep on their own side, they can take turns leaving no room for traffic from the other direction.

This was in town, wasn't hard for him to get back behind me.

ZooTech wrote:

Forsaken wrote:Then he turned his truck around and followed me for about a half a mile. Good times.

Must've been one fast truck!

Because it could not have been a slow bike!

Kaige wrote: looks right AT me..I could see the whites of his eyes..as he continued driving. He didn't even slow down. No look of anything but "You got a nerve riding on my street"

I much prefer it when they at least look at you, I think the odds of an actualy accident are a bit less that way. On the other hand, the ones that are in a fog and have no clue what's going on around them are the ones that scare me. I got "drifted on" as a woman casually floated her minivan from the right lane into the middle one which I was in. I always try to look in the cage's mirror and see the driver's eyes when close to them, and she never looked anywhere but to her right as she drifted left into my lane. I was a bike length behind her so no problems there, but after she was in my lane she looks in her mirror right back at me, a bit surprised judging from her expression, and I just shook my head. Not sure what she was feeling but she took off way ahead of me right after that.

Then there was the guy in the Buick, on his phone, who blew by me, and I was doing *cough* 85 *cough*. He had to be doing at least 95, picking a path through traffic in all three lanes of interstate.

Those were just this morning on the way into work. Please be careful folks, don't let stupid drivers upset you, stay in control, and keep a nice cushion of space around you whenever you can. It's a lot more enjoyable to read about your close calls here than to read a headline of another rider down.

There's also this special trick that cagers do, I've noticed. They look straight at you but don't see you. They come with brains fitted with filters that don't see anything with less than four wheels. It would make a good academic study for someone - or a premature funeral.

Of course, maybe they do see us and pull out anyway. I've seen that happen, too.

The other morning on the way to work a woman pulled up to within a foot of my rear tire and stayed there. I was genuinely scared. I slowed down very slowly and she hit her brakes within inches of hitting me. I continued to slow and down shift. She still wasn't getting it. I came to a complete stop and put down my kickstand in the middle of the road. I actually got off my bike and turned toward her before she realized what was happening and she went from a dead stop to whipping out around me and taking off like a rabbit with total fear in her eyes. I didn't know what I was gonna do if I actually made it to her window, but I guarantee you I wasn't going to buy her lunch.

How can anyone be so oblivious?