I was riding to work one morning and got brushed by a private cab on delancy. He started to honk his horn thinking I was in the fault for being on the road so I pushed his sideview morror in. The passenger opened the window and threw something at me and I kept riding..

if only i could plan that to happen every time.

It's dangerous out there.

If I can ride my bike 25 miles to get to work then I CAN beat YOUR ass ok. Go ahead and bump me.

haha, at least you and he didn't escalate beyond a verbal exchange, that's good. Personally being brushed falls under my "No harm, no foul" rule but may not have always been that way. Ronin I often ride to work further than that and I've met lots of guys that could smack the crap out of me, not that they'd come away unscathed. Invincible you are not.

What's wrong with you? Seriously - I'm concerned. If there's anything any of us can do to help you feel better, I'm sure we'd all be happy to help.

I've been trying to find an understood-in-America obscene gesture for lobster-claw gloves. Very frustrating, all that accidentally waving to people.

If you hit me, or even brushed me with your car, and I kicked it, and you decided to be a tough guy with a tire iron... You'd better be ready to use it, because I'd have no problems cracking your ******** head open with my chain.

I would hope such a thing would never happen, but understand that you should be really careful who you f*ck with, especially with some sort of weapon.

Confusios say "never bring tire iron to chain fight"

if you can find out where the driver lives or parks their vehicle (the dude who clipped me a couple years back was a local pizza delivery guy who i followed unbeknownst to them), you can casually return under the cloak of darkness to slash their tires and disappear in to the night...just make sure you slash at least two, so the single spare is no help. also, puncture the sidewalls (which cannot be plugged), rather than the tread. i have no problems vandalizing inanimate objects which injure animate ones. if vandalism is a concern, at least let all the air out of all four tires, so that they cannot even drive slowly to a gas station.

Giving him the finger and telling him to share the f**king road would have been enough.

Yeah...slashing tires might be a little extre for this circumstance..then again I've been known to get a little heated when stuff like this hapens to me. I think leaving a note saying that you know where this guy lives and he should be more careful around bikes on his windshield would do the trick. It'd scare the hell out of me.

how 'bout i burn his ****in' house down? :D :D :D

JUST KIDDIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or draw a nice big picture of a bicycle on their windshield in bright red, pain in the ass to remove lipstick. You know, as a friendly reminder of what to watch out for out there.

i had a similar experience with a spit and a window that i didn't know was open...that cabbie was not very happy, dude tried to wreck my ****, thank god for one way streets...advantage bicycle*

cabs are the bane of my existence

hey yo, check it! i saw the dude i got in the li'l contretemps with! i was at the bread and circus (whole foods they call it now) in newton, ma and i see this black lexus and i could see the footprints i left on that ****er's ride! i started laughin' my ass off! i feel kinda bad since i lost my cool and i don't like to do that, but it was still pretty funny seein' my handiwork (or my footywork!) on his fancyass whip. the rear quarterpanel wasn't dented it didn't look like but the prints were sure as **** still there. dude's gonna have to get some rubbin' compound to get 'em off. :D :D :D :D :D :)