Road rage, do you suffer it?

Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

Picture the scene, I'm bimbling along in a 30 limit, at the speed limit might I add, anyone who has rode with me knows I don't act the fool in built up areas.

So anyway, the lane then splits into two and turns into a dual carriageway so I wind on the throttle and sit at about 45-50 when some dipshit in a transit van decides he wants to share my lane so he can go round a parked car. So I slam on the anchors and just about manage not to hit him.

Now if something happens similar to that on country roads I generally leave it because chances are it was half my fault anyway for speeding but in built up areas I don't act the fool so this annoyed me a bit. So I knock it down a couple of gears and accelerate to this side of said van and begin waving my middle finger at the drivers open window whilst shouting various obscenities. This is about the point I actually look at the driver properly and realise I'm waving my middle finger at someone who looks like your stereotype hells angel, just as he turns and looks at me I decide now is not the best time to be in my position so I dived down the white line and went.

Must learn to control my road rage! Neutral

EuropeanNC30R... · Gay Hairdresser Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Karma :

Erm, hate to be the smart arse, but that sounds like the sort of lane change you should have anticipated?

Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

Moreso in the car than on the bike. I'll do anything I can to piss off someone who's pissed me off, and I'm a bit happy on the ol' horn.

Tis London though, you have to drive like that to get anywhere. Laughing

Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

Maybe I would of if

A. I had seen some sort of indicator

or

B. I could see straight through transit vans to see whats ahead

JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

Road Rage. Laughing

I don't think I suffer from road rage, more impatientness, I can't bear hanging behind cars doing 45-50 in a 60MPH, I do end up getting quite irate and annoyed. Dunno what it is, driving in the car i'm happy to sit behind. Dunno on the bike riding on the roads is very irritating. Agree?
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killa · Won't Shut Up Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Karma :

A car could have come the other way while you were looking at him, would have put an end to the suffering.
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Zen Dog · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Karma :

You said that "a transit van decides he wants to share my lane", which seems to imply that you were in the other lane, and the transit was next to you...

So why would you need to "see straight through transit vans to see whats ahead"?

Although you don't really say, it seems like you were behind the transit (hence not being able to see ahead), then you started overtaking it, when it suddenly pulled over into your lane. Is that right?

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cbrbiker · Spanner Monkey Joined: 17 May 2005 Karma :

I do get road rage from time to time. Moreso in the car than on the bike, as it's so much easier to just leave them behind on the bike.

The times I do get it on the bike is when I've had a near miss and someone's almost taken me out. Showing ignorant disregard for other people's safety is the one thing that really winds me up.
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Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

Paracaine · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Karma :

Yes, I suffer badly from road rage!
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DukeRed · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Karma :

Depends what car it is that annoys me.

BMW - Ignore because they'll never change.
Chelsea Tractors - Tend to drive up to the window, point at there wing mirror then at my visor. While swearing very loudly.
Old People - Let them off cos there old.
Boy Racers - Leave them in my dust Twisted Evil

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White Vans - Get away from them ASAP cos there scary & unpredictable.
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NY_Sniper · Trackday Trickster Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Karma :

road rage .. nah not a problem carry a half brick with u to throw at them its called theropy to me Razz

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mrchips · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Karma :

I get a bit annoyed with drivers who pull out in front of me when I'm nailing it round a roundabout, it's not a problem it's just an inconveniance cause I have to sit at 25.

Yesterday on the way home I was desperately wanting a rag and most of the roundabouts were quite busy, so got to the last one, no traffic i thought happy days and well over indicating to come off then this Mondeo cuts me up, he didn't look or fa, i just gave him the horn treatment.

Doesn't sound very intimidating on the bike thouhg. Crying or Very sad

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dodsi · Dirty Carny Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Karma :

I suffer badly from road rage. Had a pillion laugh so loud I could hear them at 30mph because of some things I have shouted and hand gesgures.

kal9001 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Karma :

i dodnt usualy get it as many have said i can get round most things on the bike and in the car its much more relaxed.

but what does piss me off is getting stuck behind some dumb shit slow (usualy) woman driver who does 45 in a 60 with a que of 50 cars behind and no way to get past as shes ether wobbeling irraticaly around the lane (Woah aint no chance im guna try anf get past THAT) OR they will drive with their RWheel on if not slightley over the centeral line while theoncomeing trafic has to swerve left to not have a head on with her!...as i say usualy women in 206's, golf's, or Volvo's or blokes in Jag's

BMW or Merc drivers only bother me when i try to merge back into trafic after ive been filtering and they just dont realise/care im there and maintain the gap between them and the car infront of me! or the people who just slow down and down and down (no brake lights) untill they are doing about 20MPH THEN they indicate and slow to about 5MPH to handle the junction Evil or Very Mad

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cbrbiker · Spanner Monkey Joined: 17 May 2005 Karma :

There's a road near me, between Harpenden and St. Albans, where the speed limit goes from 60 to 40 to 30. Some people annoy me on this road because they do 40 in the 60, 40 in the 40 and 40 in the 30!
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Zen Dog · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Karma :

killa · Won't Shut Up Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Karma :

Shaun I was being serious, I didn’t realise it was a dual carriage way, I didn’t mean it like “I want you to die” idiot.

If it was a joke, why didnt you laugh?

Thanks for the bad rating straight away Rolling Eyes

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Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Cars piss me off when I'm on the bike.

Less so in the car, although I hate people who drive unpredictably and un-neccesarily slow.

If you pull out of a road onto a 30/40/60 road then fucking floor it to get your speed up asshole Middle Finger

Don't bimble along slowly getting to 30 then stopping at 40.. especially if you've just pulled out on someone Rolling Eyes

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Traffic jams are mostly caused by the odd car who decides to go slow.

If all cars went AT LEAST as the speed limit the roads would be a LOT less congested, but those twats who sit on the motorway at 60mph are the true cause of congestion IMO. As well as those driving at 24.5mph in 30's etc Rolling Eyes

Just do the limit at least and the roads will be less congested I bet..
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Kris · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

Thats what you get for following a van too close...

Situation completely understandable, but all of your own doing tbh.

What did you expect a white van to do? Stop and indicate? Laughing

Back off next time and maybe you won't get caught out.

Bleugh sounding like a boring fart I know but ahhh never mind.
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Annabella · Like a person, only smaller Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

Shaun can verify my "road-rage issues" (as my mother put it) when I drive. I just can't seem to accept the fact that my car is wide, slow and heavy, once it is moving I am disinclined to slow it down or make it stop for anyone doing 37mph in a national speed limit.

Fancy an anger management course Shaun?
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kath600 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Karma :

i don't have a car and now i have the bike.....

when i'm in a car i'm a really bad passenger, i get so frustrated in traffic queues at lights etc cos i'm just so used to going round everything.

i do suffer from road rage at times, mainly due to the 40mph everywhere brigade Mad

i don't mind anybody doing the speed limit and sticking to it but those that do under, when its clear and safe to do the speed limit drive me fekkin nuts.

i've even pulled alongside a car doing 25mph in a 30 and then 30 in a 60 and shouted at them asking why are they going so slow
the driver refused to look at me ....so i know its childish but i sat right infront of him at 20mph in a 60 zone for a bit and the fcuked off Twisted Evil

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chris___ · Brolly Dolly Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Karma :

The whole "Im going to do 30 in a 40 zone" really annoys me, I quite regularly scream abuse in my lid when this happens. Also the doing 40 in a national speed limit area REALLY pisses me off Middle Finger

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DEN MONKEY · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 May 2005 Karma :

Must feel a bit like the whipping boy here Shaun.
Why is it when someone posts something similar to this, a hell of a lot of people feel the need to pick apart the incident and try to hang shit on the posters ability to know what every other mug on the road is about to do.
Now before you pull out your beating stick, I know that observation is the best tool for accident avoidence but if it was able to prevent all issues there would simply be no need for smash repairers. I think shit happens applies here.

After all the little incident story was just a precursor to the question and I think the question was the real intent of the post.
Maybe just focus on that huh ?

Vent over.
Rolling Eyes

For me non indicators are the worst. That or someone who near knocks me off when they have only looked me in the eyes about 2 minutes ago. You damn well know Im around you somewhere yet you still cant be fucked to have a look to find out where.
As for personal type road rage Ive seen a mate lose some teeth to a steering wheel lock through the window to be silly enough to do anything other than grump to myself with the windows up.