Originally Posted by
JR97
I love my headphones.
Me too. Too busy listening to good music to get into scraps with drivers.
Originally Posted by
cradduck
Blowing a fuse never ends well and this is no exception IMHO. The Johnny Cochran statement was pretty funny and I think you had already won the battle at that point.
Blocking him and blocking traffic accomplished nothing and just pissed off a bunch of drivers that had nothing to do with the verbal transaction.
Agreed. Now several more drivers will be more likely to behave antagonistically toward any cyclist they see in said town.
Originally Posted by
harleyfrog
I've just take the option of smiling and waving at every driver that yells something at me (whether I can make sense of of it or not). For those drivers that yell something positive, it's a nice gesture; for those who yell obscenities, it confuses the hell out of them.
Exactly. Mellow out instead of lashing out.
Originally Posted by
wgaynor
Try riding a bike in Kentucky. Nothing but hate for people on bikes.
Depends on where you are. I never really had any trouble riding in town when living there.
Originally Posted by
FredOak
For for me anyway, it is always the woman hanging out the passenger window and her obsession with the sidewalk. And it's always "get on the sidewalk" or some such BS. I just usually ignore them or if it was a bad day I will yell back "Read the law!" and flip them off.
My wife keeps telling me to ignore them as I'm eventually going to run into a wacko that wants to take target practice.
Your wife is right. One of these days, you might flip off the wrong person. And what good will it do to have them in jail if you're paralyzed from the neck down or something for life?
Originally Posted by riddei
Listen to your wife, flipping off the wrong person (wacko) driving a 2 ton weapon will ruin your day. It's hard, but I try to wave with all five fingers when confronted by jerks. It's hard for the wacko's to run over a guy with a big stupid grin waving at them...
Exactly. Defuse the situation. With the knowledge of how badly road rage situations often turn out between two people in cars, I can't imagine why anyone would attempt to intimidate someone in a car (or insert themselves into a hot situation) while riding a bicycle.