| Author | Message | ||
     No_rice |
ok, so i am going through town this after noon on the 4 lanes. speed limit is 35 and im going fairly close with traffic at 40 or so. im in the inside of the fast lane plenty of traffic. this guy in a jeep cherokee is slowly going passed me in the slow lane, so for a good couple minutes i am a couple feet from his head right beside him. anyway, he is gradually passing me and as he gets to the point where i am right behind the back doors i notice out of the corner of my eye that he seems to be getting really close. i drift over to the left side of my lane as he is inching over. knowing there is a car very close behind me and a median to my left i am kind of getting cut off and this guy has now clue that i have been right beside him for the last 5 minutes atleast. so what did i do? well best thing i could think of was i let go with my throttle hand and cold cocked the side of his jeep harder than hell. sure scared the hell out of him and woke him up enough to get back in his own damn lane. not highly recommending taking on a moving car with your fist but hey it worked. i always jump when i hear a unexpected thud on something of mine so figured it was worth a shot since i was low on options. made for an entertaining ride atleast, lol | ||
| Kccyclone |
When I was younger I carried ball bearings in my coat pocket for situations like this... Larry | ||
| Buellbozo |
uh...  ???? | ||
| Ted |
I had a similar experience last year. The guy passed me, so i'm riding at his rear fender, he starts to change into my lane (thankfully not fast) so I gave a long honk. At the next stop light he says I should be at the far left of the lane so I wouldnt be in his blind spot... yeesh how the hell I'm i supposed to know where his friggn blind spot is? | ||
| Kdan |
yeesh how the hell I'm i supposed to know where his friggn blind spot is? You are on a motorcycle. He is in a car. Guess who wins if he tags you? You better damn sure know where his blind spot is. | ||
| Iamike |
Shoot, I had a Dakota try changing lanes into me the other day. I don't know how he missed me in my big white Trailblazer! They are all morons. | ||
| Sarodude |
Good thing you guys aren't here in LA... This is REGULAR HAPPENINGS out here. Part of the deal. -Saro | ||
| Lowflyer |
Small ball-peen hammers work well too. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Back in my punk-ass days on the KLR250, I used to wait until the enemy car was stuck at a light and give them a good dent with my boot. I am not quite that stupid now. | ||
| Chasespeed |
yeesh how the hell I'm i supposed to know where his friggn blind spot is? General rule of thumb... If you DONT have an unrestricted veiw of the drivers head, either via mirror, or through the glass...you are in teh blind spot... I ALWAYS watch teh driver, of the closet car, as there are usually clues that they are about to SOMETHING. My 2 cents... adn yeah, I have kicked a couple door panels...that kinda quick violent motion, tend to "upset" the bike though... Chase} | ||
| Lowflyer |
Lowflyer's rule of thumb is that the cager's blind spot is basically a .25-mile radius around the cage. If you are inside the radius, you are in the blindspot. If you are outside the radius, you are still in the blindspot. (Message edited by lowflyer on February 02, 2006) | ||
| Skyguy |
Lowflier said it. It is hard of thinking of almost any accident being anyones fault but my own.. after all, I know I am invisible...... | ||
| Diablobrian |
I once got a "traveling outside of marked traffic lanes" ticket in San Diego because I had a car merge me out onto the shoulder. A cop came flying up behind me. I was thinking great! this jerk will get himself nice reminder that motorcycles are not holes in traffic. (the car driver had looked right at me, smiled and waved his left hand in a "move over" gesture). Nope, cop pulls ME over and says he can only act on (ticket) what he saw. That was me riding on the shoulder. Never mind that is was for all of 50 feet and I was unwilling to be there. I asked what I was supposed to do. Let myself get hit? He said "If you didn't want a ticket you should have". Of course he denied it in court. Judge still dismissed the ticket though. I don't think he found the cop credible either. | ||
| Paulson |
I agree with Lowflyer. | ||
| Typeone |
Cotton-heads have pushed me out of my lane quite often... they like to just float around the various lanes. The other 'tactic' of the cages that pisses me off is taking over your lane or passing you IN your lane because you are so small. I was stopped for a freekin' funeral procession over the summer and a woman kept creeping up RIGHT next to me, ended up passing me and cutting the procession. She got a few hand gestures from me but no smack to the window. She refused to look at me while i was gesturing. Idiots. Lowflyer nailed it. | ||
| Skyguy |
Typeone, Had the same thing hapen to me a few weeks back. At the stop sign I said "Umm excuse me" And the big angry black woman in her Denali then flipped me off and almost took off my front end racing me off the line in order to get in the meat of the lane before I could. I gave her the lane and then raced by her side and adjusted her driver side mirror...... I also try to avoid such "outbursts" but once in a while yu just gotta "give notice". BTW I heard tem Denali mirrirs are almost a thousand dollars........... I can not advocate striking cars or throwing things etc. IMHO it may make you feel better for a minute but the stupid cager will likely take their anger at you out on one of our breatheren. | ||
| Aldaytona |
I don't usually advocate the use of violence, but sometimes you just gotta say "WTF" and do what needs to be done. | ||
| Fiery_xb |
Paintballs would work well.   | ||
| No_rice |
it really wasn't intended to be a damaging hit to their vehical. it was more of a "HEY IDIOT WAKE UP" than anything. thats why i hit it in the window instead of the quarter panel. you can smack a window pretty hard most the time, especially with a gloved hand and not break it. plus its a nice straight swing and i didnt have to throw the bike off balance to much doing it. | ||
| Djkaplan |
"Lowflyer nailed it." Besides the 360 degree blind spot, I also assume all drivers are drunk, stoned, blind, deaf, asleep, and talking on a cell phone all at the same time. I assume this whether I'm on the bike, in a car, or just trying to cross the street. | ||
| Jayvee |
I don't have one on my Buell, but those "extra-loud" add-on horns from JC Whitney for about $20 worked very well on my former bike. I used them kind of a lot. The jokers turning right from a red light (right in freakin' front of me) would get a good long blast, just to let them know "hey, I have a right to exist". |
