It's not uncommon to get harassed by a driver and then later casually pass and wave as they're stuck in grid lock.

I must say, I'm almost jealous reading this thread! I never get any of those harassment while commuting, what I am doing wrong? LOL.

I recall riding home one fine afternoon in the huge bike lane along one of Salt Lake City's major East/West thoroughfares. As I was within about 50 yards of a light, the traffic was stopped, and I had a clear shot to the light in the bike lane. A few cars ahead I saw a big Dodge pickup edging to the right, into the bike lane, perhaps to get an early jump on the right turn lane that was still at least 50 feet farther ahead (and to the right of the bike lane). I passed on his right, and heard the impatient revving of an engine behind me. Soon afterwards, the truck was riding my wheel up to the light, where he pulled into the turn lane and rolled down his window. They guy started spouting all kinds of crap about how he had the right of way and that I was riding in the turn lane. I pointed out the sign that had a diagram of the bike lane with the text "cyclists only" and informed him that his aggressive driving was a chargeable offense. I also reminded him that I was observing traffic laws (ahem, stopped at a light, for one) and that he had driven in the bike lane too far ahead of the legal place to access the turn lane.
He mumbled and grumbled, and I bid him good day as the light turned green.
Jackass.

Things be definately gettin' NASTY 'roun' heah... Two days ago a cretin blew his horn FIVE times as he passed while crowding me on a shoulderless road whose right edge is one inch from the curb. Last night, a maniac in a red pick up screamed something at me as he came flying up behind me in a traffic circle while I was all the way to the inside. I had my lights on but apparently he didn't see me until he was ON me because he was doing 35 thru the circle and cross vision is reduced due to a gas station in the center of the circle. When I shouted "I'm legally HERE!" He gave me the finger. I then called him an impolite name for an onanist*.


As Bill O'Reilly would say: "Look it up."

Should have said "Get a bike!". That kind of suggestion would probably be lost on on a person like that, though.

Today some dude in a car blew through a stop sign (I didn't have a stop), slammed on his brakes when he saw me, then yelled "You ain't no car!" Pure genius.

I've been told to get on the bike path... when the nearest path was like 4-5 miles from where I was.

"I already have one!"

You ride too fast.

Wow - smacks of another incident that happened to me...I was travelling up an undivided street (i.e. no lane markings) to the right and as I was passing some parking on my right an oncoming truck started turning from the left to get into one of the spaces next to me. He sees me, comes to a sudden stop (gut wrenching moment that he was going to t-bone me; no he didn't signal and there was no indication he was going to turn). He then flips me off. !! I say, "I have the right of way!" He yells back, snottily, "No you don't...!" just like a snotty little kid. I ride way and say, "Oncoming traffic...duh!" Sadly he likely didn't get the point.

This was just after an encounter with lady who was blocking my lane of travel on another street and didn't want to put her car into reverse (you know how hard that is) so I could get by. I won that battle and she immediately ran a red light afterwards. You know, 'cause it's all my fault.

This is almost exactly the same as what happened to me recently, but I yelled some profanities at the driver when he told me to get on the sidewalk. He decided he wanted to be menacing and follow me down the road in his beat up truck with no working tail lights until I got off my bike and held out my arms in the universal "wanna go?" signal. At this point he drove off. Unfortunately, my Superflash fell out of its housing during this and it began to rain before I noticed it was missing. RIP little blinky light.

I prefer to say "lick my arse".

Hilarious. Thank you.

Maybe we need a "my ultra-super-cool-incredibly-durable-and-high-quality Superflash broke" thread. Seems like everybody has nothing but praise for their third or fourth warranty-or-not replacement PBSF.

It worked great until its insides got rained on.