Originally Posted by
ls01
You didnt do anything wrong.1) They are clearly wrong in telling you to get off the road 2) They are not law enforcement and have no authority to tell you to do anything. What they did is called aggressive driving and is a ticket able offense. However next time get a tag # and call the local constabulary and make a report, in the end it will still come down to your word against theirs but if thing do escalate then there is a record of the aggression. You arent a machine sometimes it happens. Dont beat yourseelf up over it.
I don't think he was second guessing his behavior because of some moral or legal rationale, but because it's not that smart of a thing to do. Especially when you're in an isolated area with a lack of witnesses where the driver can do some pretty serious damage to a guy on a bike if his road rage took him to that level. Obviously the driver was already suffering from some bit of the road rage, and it could have very easily been escalated another notch or two because of the cyclist's reaction.