shimanopower

Then he is really stuborn or stupid and will find more trouble and bad consequences for his bad behavior. What makes something right or wrong is whether it is good for your life or bad for your life. Bad actions always have negative consequences so it is never in his self interest to continue to do wrong. Right now he has a dent in his door maybe next time it's a broken nose but sooner or later he's going to learn it's best to leave cyclists alone.

Elvish Legion

Well A) I don't complain about yahoos with gun racks in their trucks, I have a number of close friends who have em they take em hunting. And B) I was joking, personally I would never take my gun out of my house save for to a firing range.

bigskymacadam

i do support the proper use of firearms. where i saw the thread going .. i took WAY too seriously

pgoat

which they would have smeared on their croissants and bagels for breakfast.

you did the right thing......difficult as it is to restrain oneself in those situations.

oilman_15106

Just think of Dean Wormers quote to Founder in Animal House & smile : "No one should go through life fat, stupid and drunk." think it is verbatum, not 100%

roadrider_va

After a 200 round-trip ride across the Delmarva Penninsula this weekend, I'm seriously considering carrying mace with me from now on. Mostly for charging dogs, but also as defense for scary idiots in cars. I was cursed at and yelled at by passing motorists about 10x. I was by myself and out in the middle of nowhere. What's to say that one day, one of these idiots with nothing to lose decides to get out of his pickup truck or tricked out Honda Civic with his buddies and take the game one step further? Don't want to be paranoid, but there are some real idiots out there. It's scary as hell and really puts a damper on an otherwise great day. Would be nice to just laugh and blow it off, but like others have said... when you're at the end of a 100 mile day and some hunk of crap who's probably been sitting around drinking budweisers all day on the couch gives you grief, it REALLY, REALLY gets your goat.

manual_overide

it's "Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

<-- Animal House Movie Geek

pgoat

Flounder


he was in that made for TV movie - the day after (about a nuclear war).....a very unfunny movie role for the fat frattie.

VeganRider

Hey Roadrider, I can relate. Go to a gun store, they have high quality mace guns, not just pepper spray but CS military tear gas/pepper spray/UV dye combined. You can take down anything with that, even a person on drugs. I bought one and keep it clipped to the left side of my ridding shorts; it's black and blends right in. It's like a helmet, "always wear it but never use it"..... (hopefully).

G-Unit

Funny Story! I would rather have taken the low road and kicked in the driver side window.

Your Therapist

I can fix that aggression, G.

mstrae

i've found that (yes i know it's juvenile) sticking your tongue out is especially effective. They're waiting to get the finger, so when they just get a tongue stuck out at them, they don't know how to react.

sabretech2001

How about one of those katanas (samurai swords) they flog on the shopping channels? Strapped across the back would be best, although there's the aerodynamic drag of the hilt to take into account. They come in all sorts of colors, so you shouldn't have any trouble finding one to match your frame. Three feet of steel should command instant respect, and you'll be able to perforate both occupants without having to walk around to the other side!
Or, you can take an M80, light it and toss it into the window as you roll by. No break in cadence, no drop in heart rate, now there's a plan! :-) just kidding....

Elvish Legion

My personal favorite is still taking an Air soft pistol with the little paintballs they use (9mm iirc) and quickly laying some paint on the window can be risky though.

Elvish

Doid23

In the end, you did the right (and smart) thing. Two obese slobs sitting in a Ford Fiesta calling me a fairy really doesn't even get me going, that would have made me laugh. And when it happens, and I do catch up to them at a light, I usually just stop my bike right next to their window and wait for the light, their discomfort gives me great joy.

Now, if someone were to throw something at me, well then, all bets are off, and I were to catch them, I would damn well inflict some damage. Gotta stand up for yourself sometimes.

fhall1

You should have looked right at the fat bi-atch and said "you're just jealous because my @ss is WAY smaller than yours" and rode on...

jeff800

Cool you got a goat, does he ride too?
Heck kill'em all let God sort them out.

stevesurf

The other day I was driving a co-worker, they saw my CO2 inflator and thought it was mace! I then gave them a demonstration and it immediately became the toy of the office - people were rolling up chewing gum and using the inflator as an air pistol shooting bubble gum around. I wonder if one of these things might actually save us or get us into trouble one day. I do agree, I am starting to think about carrying mace as well, now that I'm hearing more about retaliating drivers. There's not much else you can do if you're sitting, clipped in at a light and in a big gear (unles you're Jan Ullrich)

Spin_Dr_Tio

As a therapist, I realize that I often get into psycho-babble mode and I make an effort to resist; but...

Don't you find it more than fitting that a couple of rotund and sedimentary travelers passive-aggressively yell out from inside of a car? Now are they yelling because you are a cyclist (i.e., in better shape) or because they are in a car (i.e., too pudgy to be held up by spokes)?

Digital Gee

Excellent post! :-)

Don Gwinn

If you think they're dangerous now, wait until you mace 'em while they're going 35. . . .

They work fine as long as you don't swing them at anything or attempt to cut anything. However, it's cheaper to take a hacksaw to a piece of sheet metal and wrap one end in cloth. Same quality, too.
Somewhere on the web there must still be copies of the video of one of those Shop At Home guys rapping a "Training Katana" on a countertop. The blade snapped cleanly about 8 inches from the tip and the fragment flipped up and penetrated about an inch or so into his pectoral muscle. He DROPPED like a sack of potatos as the robo-camera continued to pan across his now empty mark, cussing and yelping from behind the counter. The robo-camera then switches to pan artfully along the length of the katana on display as he continued to yell to his colleagues that that s&*$ REALLY HURT, G$%^$$#t!
After a good minute and a half of this, another sales guy rushes out and, ignoring his fallen comrade on the ground, quips "Well, folks, it looks like we may need some mayjer surjrey dun tonawt, raht heer in studio!" and then launched straight into the sales pitch without missing a beat.

It was AWESOME.

Doid23

I don't understand why we should kill all of the goats?

timwat

(munching popcorn)

...and that's exactly when the thread jumped the shark.

catatonic

ZBike holster???? BIKE HOLSTER!.... forget handguns, get a railgun installed onto your bike, of course over-tuned just to blow plasma/vaoprize projectiles, and watch them run in fear as a giant 3 foot plasma bolt goes searing through the air at them.

www.powerlabs.org has some nice railgun action. I want one about the size of a buick roadmaster, of course mounted to the back of an adult trike....I could load up a projectile the size of a C-cell battery in it and watch as it blasts through a humurban's engine block.

(humurban is what I call those stupid H2s...all they are are freakin suburbans with a body/interior kit)

AjAx

Sorry, but this is a bike forum....