Finally met the jackass driver
10-14-15, 10:27 AM
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10-14-15, 10:58 AM
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[QUOTE=Chief;18239383]
How so? He said everyone passed him fine after he hugged the far right. Sounds like things worked out perfectly.
Nice ride yesterday. I often read threads of rude motorists and shake my head wondering where you live. Apparently some experience this on each ride and sometimes multiple times. I "never" experience this behavior aside from a very rare but ocassional "buzzing" from some 20 something little boy in his loud mufflered honda.
So I'm cruising along and this car is behind me which stays way back, like 75 - 100 yards. Won't get any closer. I keep cruising along and 1/2 mile later this car is still way back but with a line of cars behind it. If I get someone behind me that for whatever reason won't pass and cars start backing up, I'll usually pull over and let everyone pass. But this guy is literally as much as 100 yards back most of the time and won't get closer. So I continue on, through a school zone. When I am well past the school I look back and see this lead car turn into the school. I meet several cars oncoming and look back and notice this column of cars that the lead car was holding up are getting closer now, but also notice some guy has pulled out of the column and trying to pass the cars in front and meeting oncoming traffic.
About to be a major problem. So the car trying to pass manages to get back into the line and as the line reaches me I hug far right and everyone passes fine.... except the idiot trying to pass the column with oncoming traffic. Now he has embarrassed himself by getting caught over in the left lane. He has his passenger window and starts screaming obscenities at me. Something about "getting off the ********** road you ******, and ******** and by then he was far enough past that I couldn't hear him further. I smiled and waved. I wanted to explain to him it wasn't me, but the lead car that was holding up the column. He probably wouldn't have had the brain capacity to understand.
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there's your problem right there...
So I'm cruising along and this car is behind me which stays way back, like 75 - 100 yards. Won't get any closer. I keep cruising along and 1/2 mile later this car is still way back but with a line of cars behind it. If I get someone behind me that for whatever reason won't pass and cars start backing up, I'll usually pull over and let everyone pass. But this guy is literally as much as 100 yards back most of the time and won't get closer. So I continue on, through a school zone. When I am well past the school I look back and see this lead car turn into the school. I meet several cars oncoming and look back and notice this column of cars that the lead car was holding up are getting closer now, but also notice some guy has pulled out of the column and trying to pass the cars in front and meeting oncoming traffic.
About to be a major problem. So the car trying to pass manages to get back into the line and as the line reaches me I hug far right and everyone passes fine.... except the idiot trying to pass the column with oncoming traffic. Now he has embarrassed himself by getting caught over in the left lane. He has his passenger window and starts screaming obscenities at me. Something about "getting off the ********** road you ******, and ******** and by then he was far enough past that I couldn't hear him further. I smiled and waved. I wanted to explain to him it wasn't me, but the lead car that was holding up the column. He probably wouldn't have had the brain capacity to understand.
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there's your problem right there...
10-14-15, 04:19 PM
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Last year we rode right up until the third week of November. One night after it got dark (we all had good lights) It had been raining and it turned to snow. This driver got irate and came fishtailing by all twelve of us screaming obscenities. About fifty yards later he turned into his driveway. Well, three of us had Go Pros and one of the chips was delivered to the cops with the guy's mailbox prominently featured. I never found out what happened but I take my Go Pro on every ride. I never yell back or gesture at drivers because I am on a bicycle and they are in a car.
10-14-15, 04:33 PM
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+1; and it doesn't come naturally for me to let things slide. But when I'm riding a bike - I know who is driving the more powerful weapon.
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10-18-15, 10:55 PM
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I've had a few small incidents, much like what others have experienced. Driving too close, yelling things, etc. One, though, that I think is worth sharing. I was biking around the hills outside my college town when a big lifted truck starts following me. There were no other cars, good visibility of the road ahead, and I was riding well right of the white line so I tried to wave him past. Eventually, after a number of waves he blasted past extremely close and leaving on his horn. I lifted one arm like "WTF man?" At the next driveway about 200 yards up he flipped around and came flying towards me, pretty much straddling the center line and shouting hillbilly gibberish. As he passed I made sure to give him the double-bird. He turned around again and came flying by me extremely close and again I flipped him off as he drove away. When he saw that he slammed on his brakes and came screeching to a halt in the middle of the road, maybe 50 yards ahead of me, and started getting out of his truck. I should explain that I am 6'2", 220# and at the time was a member of my colleges football team (D3 so not that big of a deal but at the time I was what you would call 'swoll'). I was seeing red because he came over the white line and was inches from hitting me so I started springing towards him. By the time he was to the front of the bed of his truck I was maybe 10 yards away, at which point I literally jumped off my bike and let it go flying into the ditch and began coming towards him on foot. I know this is literally the worst thing to do but the adrenaline was pumping. I guess the scrawny middle-aged man was used to smaller older cyclists to harass, because as soon as me he hopped right back into his truck and took off. Jokes on me, though, because I bent my rd hanger pretty badly and had to finish the ride with one gear.
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