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Old 05-16-15 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by ParkingTheBus
Do you ever confront bad drivers??
I used to quite a bit. I would chase the drivers to catch them at lights; I would get into arguments; I once threw my bike in front of a car to block the driver from driving away and so we could have, ummm, a chat about why intimidating people with a two-ton vehicle is a ******bag move... I may have gotten some drivers scared of confrontation with cyclists, so maybe they thought twice the next time they wanted to harass a person on two wheels, but it wasn't doing me any good, psychologically.

So I stopped all that. I can't guarantee I won't do it again; sometimes I'm tempted, and there might be a situation when I'll feel confronting the driver is the right thing to do. However, for the most part I just shrug it off these days. The more biking years I accumulate under my belt, the easier it gets for me to predict what a moron cager might do, so I can figure out a way to avoid that scenario. I also wonder if drivers actually respond better to cyclists now than, say, 10 years ago, since cycling is slowly but steadily growing as a mode of transportation in Toronto.
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