What can I get away with? Legally...

There are times when despite my best efforts I loose my temper on the road. I commute 60 miles daily to work, and most of the time the ride is pleasant and quite enjoyable. Unfortunately, every now and then I come across a motorist that is a real prick. I wish a could do something, but I do not know what. I shared stories with some of my fellow riders, but their suggestions are quite extreme, or beyond my natural disposition. Some of those include kicking and denting their vehicle, using pepper spray on opened windows, balloons filled with brake fluid, etc. Do you have any suggestions?

 

2 x 103dB fiamm horns and lay on it. that and a baloon full of water for their windshield works too

 

Have you considered an anger management class?

 

Getting close enough to hit or spray an idiot cager is too damned close and the average judge may not be very understanding of thrown items either. Go with a 139db Stebel air horn, your average idiot cager will tend to mistake it for a semi horn, react accordingly then realize what just made 'em jump out of their skins, all fun to see.

 

+1

get into a pissing match with a cage and the biker nearly always loses. In the last several years there have been several stories of car/suv drivers going after a biker that had wronged them and either attacking them or rolling over them

 

The worst thing in the world is to dwell on idiot drivers. We are on two wheels for a reason. We enjoy the ride.

Notice an idiot, protect yourself, flash for a second on how foolish they are and ... move on. You are still riding and didn't get hit. That is a good day.

Mind you, I AM looking to put on a pair of FIAMM's myself. :tongue:

Jose

 

The fact that you have not done "something" means you are sane.

The ones that crossed that line are in prison, dead,no longer driving, or in a wheel chair.
Because someone got hurt or killed.

 

so far the very loud horn seems to get the point across the fastest and only one person followed me to a rest stop and that was to find out what I had for horns. Personally i give a -1 for kicking the cager while in motion as you must get very close to do this and it gives them the opertunity to sideswipe you. the water ballon crack was supposed to be a joke and any serious rider wouldnt attempt to carry one of those as they break too easily and are not readily available when you need them. Universal sign language works too and sometimes get your point across, but 2 x 130dB horns work better, even through closed windows and acid rock blasted at full volume.

 

Older-school riders always carried sparkplugs to dent bodywork or crack glass on cars. Read Hunter S. Thomson's book on Hell's Angels.

I ALWAYS carry a plug in my jacket pocket for quick retaliation, but in over 24 years, i never used it once but i should have 2 or 3 times......

 

cagers should be made to get a mc for 5yrs before being able to cage it! Im a better driver thanks to riding, i now actualy look for riders around me.

 

Heres alittle trick I learned hauling heavy equipment for ever- I always carried a spray bottle(small) with half water and half baby oil, just a few squirts on the windshield (over the shoulder) and they put on the old wipers a va-la one smeared freekin mess . Done it a million times, they always seeem to slow down all of a sudden-JMTC

 

personally i prefer the fly by cut off hand full of pennies in the air and hammer on the throttle.. will pepper their vehicle like a hail storm.. and they cant do a damn thing about it. myself i have only been pushed to that point once by a texting teen that refused to have ne respect for anyone on the road, weather it b other cagers, big trucks or even us 2 wheelers.. i had to pull off to take a leak real quick and as i got back on there was the bitch again. swervin and herpin. needless to say her windshield was peppered from over my head. the first time she about ran myself and 2 other cagers off the road.. second tym i got on she about killed a small group of 2 wheelers and herself when she about crawled up under a 18 wheeler i just chilled back for 3 miles when i seen her get back on her phone again textn away.. thats when i got pissed beyond boogeyed around her cut her off and let loose then down 2 gears hammered on it. she ended up on the shoulder in my mirror after that.. wonder if the cunt got the clue then....

 

I can't believe what I am reading here. We all praise ourselves as good and for the most part safe riders yet we come up with all these really stupid ideas. Reg's answer was the best and those who agreed with him. Now I can't say I had not thought of probably everyone of those ideas expressed here and maybe a few others but remember people. For every action there is a reaction. And depending on the extent of traffic on the road, what you do to an asshole in a cage, may cause the asshole to do something that transfers the danger to a totally innocent party following behind. That could be a fellow rider. And that includes scaring the shit out of someone with a loud horn. You need to consider that sounding your loud horn when not necessary may be and offense. Everywhere that I have looked, it is unlawful to make unnecessary noise. A loud horn activated just because you are pissed off is unnecessary. Horns are for sounding a warning for a just reason. And yes, if someone is encroaching in your area because the ass didn't do a shoulder check, then hit the horn long enough to make him be aware of what he is doing. Sounding a horn here in BC unnecessarily will prove the charge of Loud and Unnecessary Noise (7A.01 Motor Vehicle Act Regulations) which carried the same penalties as speeding. And the lawmakers consider it a Hazardous Moving Violation so Points are incurred as well.

Now if you are driving a big assed 4x4 truck with lights bright enough to bring R2D2 home, then intimidate the shit out of them by following so close you can see their hackles go up.

Just get out of their way and let it go, or report it. You will enjoy your day far more than to dwell on some other fugger's poor behaviour.

My next sermon will be tomorrow morning where I will speak on the evils of mixing coke with good whiskey before noon.

 

I'm usually too busy grabbing my clutch and brake and fumbling for my horn to lift any finger.

 

one should never dilute the blood of their saviour before noon!

 

I am waiting for a bike mounted version of this little gadget:

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One of those puppies in a tailbag would almost make me give up my 15" plasma TV that I watch my re-runs of Oprah.

My main concern at this point would be how my current R/R would be affected by that much load.

 

I find myself in those situations at least a couple of times a year and you just have to let it go. There are no shortage of people like that on the road, so it is not worth getting worked up over. The most important thing should be getting to your destination in one piece.

 

Your Right Stew, breath and let it go-----With the middle finger. Here in SoCal I seem to be a magnet for these stupid females that think being 5 feet of your tail is OK-WTF, then if I slow alittle they drive by , flip me off and swerve into my lane right in front of me-I dont get it. Its hard to let it go when it happens daily-JMO