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Flemy
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PostPosted: 11:42 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: blind and angry cagers! Reply with quote

Over the past week I've had three people (all women Rolling Eyes ) go to change lanes without indicating or even checking their mirrors as I'm filtering through traffic, when they eventually do see me, they slam their anchors on half way through the manoeuver causing me to brake hard. All three of the cheeky fuckers also gave me a bunch of abuse because they didn't see me. Why am I on the receiving end of so much anger this week?
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PostPosted: 11:44 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because you touch yourself at night.
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PostPosted: 11:45 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, you are still alive though Wink

I've had 2 cars...BMWs unsurprisingly... who think its ok to flash me to get me to move over from the outside lane so they can fly past.

I happen to be overtaking too Neutral So cant just pull back in, they then proceed to be absolute knobs when it comes to filtering past them when they decide to undertake you.

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PostPosted: 11:48 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Re: blind and angry cagers! Reply with quote

Flemy wrote:
Why am I on the receiving end of so much anger this week?

You rated one of my posts as "disagree". Let that be a lesson to you. Try it again and I'll arrange for your TV to only ever show Hollyoaks.

More seriously, a typical defence mechanism when people realise they're in the wrong and have been made to look foolish is to get all shouty and belligerent. It's an attempt to try to regain the high-ground by implying you were in the wrong all along. "WTF were you doing there in that bit of road I was pulling into without looking?!" etc. Just interpret whatever they say as "You and I both know I'm in the wrong but I'm not going to admit it."
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Flemy
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PostPosted: 11:54 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

MattJ wrote:
Because you touch yourself at night.


Too easy...

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Difficult to say.
For all we know there may be a flip side.
So many riders I see do not consider positioning, and give other drivers no chance of seeing them.


In fairness, I think I'm quite good at making myself seen for those who are paying attention, I always try and keep the mirrors of the cars I'm passing in sight and I'm not very aggressive with it, I kind of just chug along a few mph faster than the slow moving/stationary traffic.
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PostPosted: 12:06 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

If they do that AND give me abuse, they lose a wing mirror.
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PostPosted: 12:07 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flemy wrote:

Too easy...


Laughing


Could be that it's winter and there are fewer bikes around, so drivers are looking for motorbikes even less. Although it's unlikely that the drivers that do this kind of thing ever look for bikes, regardless of the time of year.

Maybe you'd been lucky for months and not come across any crazies, so to balance things out you were dealt 3 in one week.

Just try to give them a little wave when you do filter past, they really love that.
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Flemy
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PostPosted: 12:42 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

chris-red wrote:
If they do that AND give me abuse, they lose a wing mirror.


I did get thet mad with one I gave her window a little backhand, not really as intimidating as I'd hoped, it just made some farty little *duff* she then called me a dickhead and drove off.
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PostPosted: 12:45 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flemy wrote:


In fairness, I think I'm quite good at making myself seen


is it pink metallic?
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Flemy
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PostPosted: 12:50 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

MissEd wrote:
Flemy wrote:


In fairness, I think I'm quite good at making myself seen


is it pink metallic?


It does actually have some lilac on the fairings.
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PostPosted: 12:53 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hear that bro. Yesterday I nearly had an off because some bloody old woman decided to pull out of a blind junction infront of me without and headlights on (bearing in mind, it was dark), and she barely stopped. I was probably about an inch or two from going over her bonnet. She didn't even acknowledge me as I rode past blaring the horn and giving her the middle finger. I was absolutely fuming Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:02 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the only thing that annoys me about my Pathans - I can't give the finger or V, just sort of wave... Thumbs Down Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:13 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Road rage is a funny thing, people's reaction to an incident is usually the cause of the rage rather than the original incident itself.
All it takes is a wave from the person who f'cked up and the situation is invariably defused. As said above, when someone f'cks up they usually get aggressive which causes it all to flare up, people need to learn to say sorry!
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PostPosted: 13:37 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

"I'm very sorry you're a blind ignorant dingbat tucked in your warm safe cocoon utterly ignorant of the world around you and not caring whether you murder another road user as long as it saves you five seconds on your commute".

Might be tricky squeezing that on a hi-vis. Wink
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Flemy
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PostPosted: 13:53 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
"I'm very sorry you're a blind ignorant dingbat tucked in your warm safe cocoon utterly ignorant of the world around you and not caring whether you murder another road user as long as it saves you five seconds on your commute".

Might be tricky squeezing that on a hi-vis. Wink


When I get home from work I will put this on my hi-vis that I have somewhere and up the pic.
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Flemy
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PostPosted: 15:53 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg, this ones for you! I'll wear it on my commute tomorrow, spread the love and all that.
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PostPosted: 16:19 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

lolol

Hero

+1 rating for you!
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Flemy
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PostPosted: 17:00 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alpha-9 wrote:
lolol

Hero

+1 rating for you!


Haha thanks! I'll let you know how my commute goes tomorrow.
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PostPosted: 19:23 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flemy wrote:
Haha thanks! I'll let you know how my commute goes tomorrow.


£5 says you get rear-ended.
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PostPosted: 20:13 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I often find it's the women who perceive that they are in the right even if they clearly are not. As I cast my mind back a year or so,

I was riding down the road, there was a car parked on the left facing oncoming. As I was very close, the car started to pull out (no other parked cars around- but plenty driving) and indeed I had to swerve around her and beep the horn. I then recall the cheek of hearing an occupant in the car yell a sinful word in my direction.


Also, just sit in your car in a supermarket car park. The amount of abuse that comes out most of the mouths of women at people parking or emerging is extremely vicious.
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PostPosted: 20:18 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most car drivers don't know filtering is legal so they think your in the wrong.
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PostPosted: 20:25 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Re: blind and angry cagers! Reply with quote

Flemy wrote:
. All three of the cheeky fuckers also gave me a bunch of abuse because they didn't see me. Why am I on the receiving end of so much anger this week?


Just blow them a kiss as you go passed...... Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:00 - 26 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I've had 2 cars...BMWs unsurprisingly...


What is it with BMW's
Ive had one guy, who was crawling along, maybe 10mph in a que - See me comming (safe to filter) & he started to swerve in and out with middle fingers - Shocked
Had 2 female drivers almost take me out on the motorway Thumbs Down
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