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Tourer
Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 496
Likes: 33
From: MA
LOL until you try to have your "discussion" and they decide your little bike looks like a bowling pin to their car.
Club Member
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 5,804
Likes: 7,831
From: SE Louisiana
What, no ball bearings, you haven't learned anything from MLB, have you.
But really, wave him around, simple
Maybe he had to go #2, and after the close call, there was no reason to hurry?
But really, wave him around, simple
Maybe he had to go #2, and after the close call, there was no reason to hurry?
Road Master
Joined: Apr 2016
Posts: 816
Likes: 203
From: Alaska
Nope, no ball bearings, no breaking mirrors, not even any swearing or yelling... merely explaining why it makes us uncomfortable when our space is violated. Most people respond well to plain-speak and maybe, just maybe, next time they are more aware of the biker.... those who don't, it wouldn't matter if they did get an ***-beating or a broken mirror because they are self-absorbed douchenozzles anyhow.
Supporter
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 15,788
Likes: 5,623
From: along the shore of Mishigami
The driving public doesn't care it's that plain and simple. Until states pass laws that actually put drivers in jail for long periods of time for killing someone on the highway, they will drive the way they want too. The idiots on crotch rockets aren't helping at all in the situation, that's a whole different subject. I.E. driver turns left in front of motorcyclist while texting or driving distracted. Motorcyclist died, driver serves 90 days in county lockup. Justice served?
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Road Captain
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 518
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From: Tucson Arizona
Say what???
OP here:
I am not about to "move over" and put our lives in jeopardy by encouraging the chucklehead {I am trying to be polite/civil}, to pass between me and the double yellow line. Some here want me to just let him pass without changing lanes... seriously? As I stated there is virtually no shoulder on this stretch and no place to pull out/off or I would have done so.
Fortunately everyone survived and the chucklehead got a little reality therapy on the dangers of tailgating. He was lucky to be tailgating a bike that gave him a clear view of the impending head-on. Had he been behind a truck or van he would not have had a clue why my big bright brake lights were suddenly illuminated and more than likely someone could/would have died.
The a$$ beat thing did not come from me and fortunately at 65 I have long since outgrown that sort of behavior{besides at 65 there really aren't all that many a$$' I can still kick... sigh}. Justice/Karma would have been a LEO witnessing the whole thing and taking corrective action... Now that would have been cool.
I am not about to "move over" and put our lives in jeopardy by encouraging the chucklehead {I am trying to be polite/civil}, to pass between me and the double yellow line. Some here want me to just let him pass without changing lanes... seriously? As I stated there is virtually no shoulder on this stretch and no place to pull out/off or I would have done so.
Fortunately everyone survived and the chucklehead got a little reality therapy on the dangers of tailgating. He was lucky to be tailgating a bike that gave him a clear view of the impending head-on. Had he been behind a truck or van he would not have had a clue why my big bright brake lights were suddenly illuminated and more than likely someone could/would have died.
The a$$ beat thing did not come from me and fortunately at 65 I have long since outgrown that sort of behavior{besides at 65 there really aren't all that many a$$' I can still kick... sigh}. Justice/Karma would have been a LEO witnessing the whole thing and taking corrective action... Now that would have been cool.