My first visit to the commuting forum has been interesting. I kinda thought that people became less violent and more considerate of others safety when they commute by bike, but some of you guys are scary with the threats of ass kickings and what not.

I'm going to give the "hard-core commuters" more room from now on, I'm scared of 'em!

The hard-core commuters are the ones who are focused on getting to work and not on what other people are doing or wearing on their bikes. Don't worry about the ones you see screeching about roadies and spandex and running red lights on here -- they're too caught up in other people's business to pedal.

What makes him a poseur and who cares? You sound like a whiner.
If he acts foolishly eventually it'll catch up which is sad. No one deserves injury.
If he wants to ride an unobtainium bike and wear spandex why does that bother you? Insecure? Does ability have to match what someone owns?
Apparently he didn't get the memo that you own the road.

Ride your own ride.

Troll on a troll post?

Wow...this thread has everything...well...except Bongo and some childish political rant.

Oooh, internet tough guy. You almost kicked a roadie's ass? So, basically you did nothing is what you're saying. Who's the pansy again?

Please spare us your stupid weak assed rant next time.

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Al

I figured it out today. The guy thought you were stopped, or a display of some sort, rather than a moving animate object. Happens to me sometimes. Usually with groundhogs. By the time I realize it's alive, I'm past the thing!

I'm not an "internet tough guy". I am just a regular tough guy, I've never made any threats to anyone over the internet and I won't start now.

But with regard to that roadie I mentioned in my previous rant, I caught up to him that day with the intent of giving his handlebars a good hard yank to send him to the pavement at ~20mph but I was able to compose myself and told him as I pulled up to let others know when he's passing them.

The point of the story is if you ride your bike in a way that pisses other people off, be prepared to deal with the angry Marine that you just pissed off who had a bad day anyway. At least say "sorry 'bout that".

Dude. We get enough crap from cagers...we don't need other cyclists doing stupid stunts to injure us. I can't believe you'd even entertain such a thought let alone verbalize it on a public forum full of fellow cyclists.

I rarely announce myself as I pass someone. I certainly don't buzz them but if they look over I'll say goodmorning or goodafternoon but that's usually about the extent of it. I'm a spandex clad roadie BTW and I live near a rather large Marine base and have ridden through the base many times on my road bike. Never have I encountered such hostility from a Marine. You give Marines a bad name.

Quit embarrassing the other Marines here, including myself, and get your temper under control there, jughead.

The stupid stunt was him flying by me, out of control and nearly colliding with me because I was actually following the rules of the road. These things happen, but he sould have said something to apologize. We both could have been seriously hurt and he was indifferent which is what made me angry.

All, I did was tell him to let people know when he's passing them... SHEESH! He should have said something for riding so carelessly and almost hurting another rider.

I didn't do anything. I asked him to let people know when he's passing them. It was a narrow bike path.

Forgive me, fellow cyclists for having hostile thoughts toward another cyclist. It's been too long since my last confession.

So he -- according to you -- almost caused an accident with you...in response to which, you wanted to seriously injure him. On the one hand, you didn't do it; on the other hand, clearly the idea of doing it sat so well with you that you graphically visualized how you'd do it and then hung onto it long enough to post about it here.

By the most charitable interpretation, I can't call that anything other than "really, really messed up". Go get some professional help, please. Or maybe confine your riding to somewhere where there just aren't any other people who might come close to your hair-trigger temper. That kind of Threatcon 5 attitude is going to put you behind bars if you don't get a leash on it.

According to ME?! Is there another witness to the event here? How can I make this any more clear? He came within a inch of colliding with a stationary rider while going full speed through a stop sign. He had to swerve out of the way to avoad crashing into me at full speed. He made no attempt to apologize he just kept on pedalin' away. I caught up with him and said "You should let people know when you're passing them." That's it. He didn't even apologize when I caught up with him. He just gave me this smirk.

My point is, if I was a person who could not control his temper he could have found himself in the hospital.

/Please no more pseudo psyche evals, people.

I love this thread.