Ever got that mad?

[Flemy]

With someones stupidity on the road that you've got off your bike/out your car and traded choice words/blows?

I got off my bike this morning after having to swerve to avoid a taxi that cut me up, I was so mad I couldn't undo my helmet or lift the visor so after about 40seconds of fumbling, I gave him the wanker gesture and rode on.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

No, life is too short.

And you run the risk of making yourself look like a tit as you so aptly demonstrated.
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[nant]

I never get angry , i just shrug it off . Mark it an experience .... until this morning when a asian guy in a mercedes just changed lane into me without checking his blind spot. And then he had the cheek to have a go at me!

[Flemy]

[angryjonny]

A long beep of the horn is all it takes to point out they've done something stupid. Its enough to unsettle most people and make them question what they've done.

If you start getting aggressive and confrontational about something they'll just assume you're a nutbar. And it's your aggression that'll stick in their memory, not their near-miss. So it's counter-productive really, they've learned nothing.

Scenario 1, they go away thinking "I nearly hit that biker" even if they don't outwardly admit they've done anything wrong.

Scenario 2, they go away thinking "bikers are aggressive psychos."

[Kris]

[EXC-Rider]

If anyone cuts me up or what ever i just swear inside the helmet and go on my way, cant change what just happened so no point kicking up a fuss.
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[Rogerborg]

Get mad? Yes, of course.

Act on it? No, not for many years. I've even stopped reactive use of the horn, it doesn't achieve anything except to aggravate the situation and keep you within range of stupidity.

"Can't change what just happened" is very sage. And kicking off is unlikely to change anything for the better in the future, unless you remove the culprit's ability to drive, which is likely to remove your ability to be at liberty.

Whistle a few bars of Still Alive and get on with enjoying your ride.
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[kawakid]

I believe somebody on BCF a few years ago went down for dragging someone out of their car and lamping them on the car bonnet. If I remember it rightly they did it twice.

I sometimes shout but I don't swear, the last time someone pulled out on me I got level and shouted "LOOK".

A few years a go, I would have gone for the car mirrors or opened the rear door. But I've calmed down now.

The other trick is to lean in to the car and throw their car keys away, I think I remember rightly it was Stinkwheels' mum who did this.

In all honest, the best thing to do is just to pull in calm down and wait for 5 minutes and then set off again. Riding after someone angrily is stupid, you are not paying attention at all and you are more likely to crash or to injure someone else.
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[621andy]

Oh it's just me then

Done it a few times..last year in Turkey after a near death experience when the wanker overtook on the brow of a hill then cut across my path into his restaurant courtyard..don't think he'll forget me in a hurry

Also did the drag out of car, keys across the road to a young twat in France; he thought he would intimidate me and impress his girlfriend...it ended with him reversing at speed in to my BMW 3-series. I leapt out whilst his bit of totty was giving him shit, dragged him out the car, lobbed his keys away and pinned him up against the car....a little bit of wee may have come out on his part
Got his insurance details etc...turns out it was mummy's car, so he was doubly in the shit

BTW, I'm 6'4" and quite erm, large...
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[dodgydog]

Twice
Once when two lads pulled out caused me to anchor on, (I was in the Mrs Fiat Panda at the time) They thought it was real funny slowing down then speeding up for the next mile. I wasn't that bothered until one of them gave me the *wanker* sign. I gave the little twat the v's so they stopped at the next lights and both got out and came towards my car.
All they'd seen was some old bald guy in a little car, the cunts. They didn't look happy when a 17 stone bloke got out and twatted them both, (I was well roided up at the time too ). They pissed off right quick then.
Skinny little streaks of piss that they were.

Another time it was nothing to do with me, a guy was driving like an idiot, wrong side of the road coming up to some lights, someone (not me) sounded their horn so he got out and started having a go at me, he was another young lad, built like a twig. He insisted I got out of the van.
So I did, and sat him on his arse in the road.

These were both some time ago, nowadays the little shits would probably knife you. (and I'm a lot older now)


Dog

(I'm a tolerant easy going bloke really)
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[P.]

Never really got off and went for them. Did stop the bike 2 up when a guy reversed out of his drive and proceeded to verbally abuse him.

Taken a mirror from a transit van who cut me up, jumped on his brakes then swerved to stop me filtering.

[Mikey3]

Frequently; driving standards in this country are awful.

Thing is, although it may not be a good idea to get angry, and you may end up looking stupid, but when you've just nearly had an accident (how bad this accident could've been you'll never know) the first thing crossing your mind in most cases isn't "I could look silly here" because you're too wrapped up in what just nearly caused you and/or your vehicle to potentially be badly damaged.
I've managed to reframe from actually hitting cars (even though more than once I really wish I had ) but I do have a go with some hand waving and horning, and depending on how bad I might say, if it's dark, give them some main beam in the mirrors or similar.
I know the bigger and better thing is to leave it and carry on as normal, but we're humans and not logical Vulcans - emotion clouds our judgement (i'm not a trekky btw)
Although they may focus on what just happened - they may think twice next time just in case it happens again (unlikely, but we can all hope)

Mike
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[Clanger]

I will generally blast my horn for ages, and shout out a few expletives, but then it's gone...over with...it will be out of my mind minutes later. There is very little that makes my blood boil.
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[Ichy]

People make mistakes. I'd be a real hyprocrite to go off on someone for something that may not of been deliberate although it put me at risk. A shake of my head and maybe a stare at the driver as I go past is about my limits.
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[621andy]

Forgot about the wing mirrors...broke a couple of them when people tried squeezing through gaps and forcing me off the road; a well aimed whack of the hand as they go by does the trick...both in Turkey again
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[Tenko]

Being English I don't know where my horn is.

My reaction to idiots is usually a slow shake of the head followed by a 'McFly', at which point they tend to feel very silly and go away.

[Llama-Farmer]

I'll always mutter something under my breath like "blind cunt" or "use your fookin mirrors grandad" but very rarely get visibly outraged

Was riding just the other day at work and a minicab pulled out in front of me without looking, had to slam on to avoid him, and he then drove across a zebra crossing which pedestrians were already halfway across.
When he stopped at the lights I came along side him banged on the window and was like "what the fuck are you doing, you nearly wiped me out, and those blokes crossing the road".

"I didn't see you" was his response... too fucking right he didn't see me, he never even looked right as he was pulling out of the side road in front of me. Gave him some more expletives then rode off as the lights turned green.


Never usually get confrontational, but I was having a bad day and was pretty pissed off even before this

[Mikey3]

[Llama-Farmer]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Thankfully I'm not as reactive as I used to be, but never say never.
Can't be arsed to repeat what I've done but one incident lead to a telecom bloke on his arse.

Since I've had my bike I'm alot more relaxed.
I blame my genes.
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[Sam_Y_93]

I get fairly annoyed when some stupid bastard cuts me up but I try and stay calm, don't think I could bring myself to kick a wing mirror off or anything.

Last thing that happened was a guy in an Astra overtake (well the road splits in to two lanes for a roundabout) really closely, literally an inch or two from my knee. I didn't stop and shout but as I filtered past at the lights I gave a nice slip of the clutch and 8k of exhaust to his ear, shame I don't have an open pipe though...

The last time I got aggressive to a guy (in another Astra actually ) was when he pulled out on a mini roundabout without looking, stopped at the light to have a work and ask him what the fuck he was doing. First thing he said was "I didn't see you mate" told him of course you didn't, to weren't looking, he comes out with "you must have been going too fast" bloody fools!
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[Rogerborg]

Actually, to expand on getting away from stupidity, the last time some yoofs in a mirthmobile cut me up in order to get that vital 10 feet closer to the red lights we were approaching, I immediately filtered past them, up to the lights... then rode (with due care and attention) through the red, without a backwards glance.

It's about as illegal as sounding your horn inappropriately, less illegal than anything else you might be tempted to do, and I feel does rather make a nice point about who just won the skirmish for that 10 feet of road. Bitches.
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