Road rage - giving bikers a bad name.

mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

Something happened to me today which really pissed me off.

My bike is off the road while I fix it, so I haven't much choice in what I can use for getting around, only really my little car. I've only been driving it for a week or so, having passed my test in December. I'm not a hopeless driver, but I'm obviously really inexperienced and really don't want to push it.

In my 2-1/2 years of riding I've never had anyone shouting, swearing and beeping at me that I've known about*. In a week of driving my car, the first person to have road rage at me just happens to be a biker! It was an impatient cock on a new R1 with little blue led things on it, shouting, swearing, flashing his lights and beeping at me just because I'm taking my time so I don't have to nail it to get onto a busy roundabout. Rolling Eyes

No wonder people have bad impressions of bikers - if the statistics are similar to my experiences, there's a far higher proportion of angry bikers than angry drivers. Not impressed; talk about letting the side down. Thumbs Down

*That is, except when I've deserved it for dodgy overtakes.
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kat250 · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Karma :

This in about the aberdeen area by any chance and what day was it?
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kat250 · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Karma :

Prob a customer just getting his new (last year) r1 from eccosse they turn up in there droves its funny drooling over the new ones just pulled out the crate Laughing

. Come to think of it i know the bike your talking about was in for work yesterday Laughing

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ColdInsomnia · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Karma :

Some fat pillock was wandering down the road last night as I was driving towards him and he wandered right into the road in front of me, as if he was playing Chicken! (This guy was about 40-50 years old).

I of course drove around him, but furious I turned the bike around and went back and shouted "ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?" as I drove past him again, and he didn't even respond to me at all.

Either he was trying to piss me off and shit himself when I came back to confront him, or he was pissed as a newt
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oddkid · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Karma :

I gave a woman driver the finger yesterday when she failed to give way at a traffic calming chicane and nearly took me out.

I also gave someone a complete bollocking for pulling out on me at a roundabout causing me to swerve into oncoming traffic.

Lets be frank, sometimes people deserve it.
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map · Mr Calendar Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Karma :

IMO bikers can intimidate car drivers without really meaning it. I'm thinking those overtakes that, as a car driver you couldn't make it, a bike can do easily. Applies to the car being overtaken and those that suddenly see a bike coming towards them in their lane.

There's also when a bike flashes past you filtering through traffic. Can be a surprise when something appears at the side of you. Certainly a WTF moment followed usually be a bloody bikers comment.

No excuse though for hassling other drivers. I know I'd only pull out when I think it's safe for me. So I shouldn't be surprised if other think the same, and have a different opinion of a safety margin.

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h00dwink · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 May 2006 Karma :

impatience is a bad part when it comes to riding, as you know you can go everywhere a lot quicker so don't want to be held up.

like the vast majority of every one who rides, i get incredibly annoyed when a car driver does something that could result in my death. that's when they get shouted at.
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