I have had three occasions where I have had to deal with macho man get out of their vehicle. Two males in trucks, one male in a Jaguar with his wife. One of my faults is that I can get pretty arrogant with a sharp sarcastic tone to drivers feel the need to stop for confrontations. Both the Jag and one of the pickup drivers were with their wives, and rather large out of shape older men. In both incidents they turned around and got back into their vehicle after exposing my chain/lock and insulting their rather large size in front of the wives. In both incidents I asked their wife why she would marry such a angry ahole that would try to run bikers of the road. That didn't bode well with the one pickup truck driver though. After getting back in his truck he decided to be real big and bad and drive 40 mph a foot away from me, and then slam on his breaks in the bike lane in front of me. I bet his wife got real hot. He then bailed like a coward, but if I would have caught up with him I sadly could have went to far with an assault charge as I was revved up. I try not to let something really get to me to start a confrontation unless I perceive it as a threat. Such as a pickup who tried to intimidate me making a left in front of him by trying to ride me off the road. The jackass than said bikes shouldn't be on the road which isn't something you don't want to tell me. That coward sped off. There is a biker in Pittsburgh doing 5 years for using his u-lock on a driver he had a heated exchange with. I don't need 5 years from cycling myself, but my lock is ready in defense and that is all I have.

I mostly try to avoid confrontation. But it happens, and sometimes like the ones above they were actually just angry men mad because a cyclist was in their way going home following the laws. But the most I do is sit on my bike and get my lock ready. If they get within swinging range I will lay them out and plead self defense. If they have a gun, I guess I will use my speed and get away. I worry the most about them using their vehicles the most though.