Who said I'm not trying to hit someone?

[zooom]

thus far...I have taken off 3 mirrors, dented 1 quarter panel, and 1 fender and of course knocked on several windows and turned a few mirrors...

the most memorablefor me was a misty rainy day and there was a guy on his Blackberry in his Suburban who pulled out across 3 lanes of traffic from his fast food restaraunt stop to right in front of me, nearly clipping off my front wheel....I brake hard (luckily without slipping and sliding) and then swooped around him flipping him off and signalling for him to look next time...a quarter mile up the road, he moved over to the right 1 lane and pulled up next to me to yell at me as to what my problem was ( while he was still on the phone) and I yelled back at him (so that the other person on the phone could hear it too) in many expletives for him to get off the damn phone and look before he pulls out onto a road unlike what he did pulling out back where and how he did as he almost killed me and drove me off he side of the road to which he responded with hostility back at me and then decided that he wanted to do something about it and opened his door and got out and finally put his phone down on his seat...he came over to me within hand to hand distance and asked what I was gonna do and I then I responded with " I ain't gonna start it, but I'll certainly finish this, because I ain't taking shit off " and showed him my road warrior-esque Icon Ti-Max gloves in a fist....he thought about it for a minute and then the light turned green...I spun up road spray on his slacks as I decided to move with traffic leaving him standing there...

[Grampa]

My favorite car kicking story of all time was from Grio (member on the old DML). She was riding a through a small town in Italy during the Moto Giro. She was trying to get by a car in congested traffic but the guy kept pinching her off. Finally she gets along side him and kicks the guys door. Not too hard just enough to let him know she was there. Well at the next stop the guy catches up with her and starts reading her the riot act. She was finally able to deduce that the he was screaming "You hit me! You hit me!" She made it abundantly clear to him that she did not hit him but rather KICKED him. Once he understood he was even more pissed off. Unfortunately this guy turned out to be the chief of police of the little town. Oops. Squad cars came. She was put in hand cuffs. Luckily nothing really ever came of it because no damage was done.


sac

[LMT]

On the bike I have only kicked a few doors.  As a pedestrian, I am a destroyer.

I walk a lot.  Drivers do not look left or right, don't stop at cross walks, and pull way out into the cross walk.

I hit hoods, trunks, and smack side view mirrors.  Some friends will not walk with me.  I also have tossed the pedestrian rules flyer (yep, I have a stack in my bag) from the county into open car windows..

Just yesterday, at a marked cross walk, a car zipped around a stopped car from lane 2 to lane 1 and almost hit me.  I broke the driver side mirror. The guy in lane 3 was laughing so hard he spewed coffee on his dash.

[SacDuc]

 

I miss my riding buddy. Now I'm stuck riding with Bacon Junkie. He doesn't have nearly the head of hair Grio does.


sac

[The Bacon Junkie]

 

I miss my riding buddy. Now I'm stuck riding with behind Bacon Junkie.
He doesn't have nearly the head of hair Grio does.


sac

Fixed that first line for ya, but as my 999 isn't here yet, and you just sold your bike, neither of us will be doing much riding anytime soon..   

And no, I don't have the luxurious locks that Grio does...  I probably don't look as good in leathers either...  

[KnightofNi]

i was much more aggressive as a bike messenger, but yes, i have smacked cars before.

a few mirrors have been hit, a door has been kicked and the rear qtr panel of a new pickup was dented.

most often i just yell and keep moving though. it's just not worth it.

[He Man]

im crossing 34th street midtown Manhattan trying to go from west to east side. Lights go green, i take off pretty hard, and this lady RUNS across the street, across 2 the parking lane, the first lane and right into my lane. WHILE shes doing this, shes turning her head AWAY from traffic looking back and talking to someone and running at an angle TOWARDS traffic...

meanwhile im already doing 35mph by the time she bolts out, i lay my hand on the horn ( i wish i still had my stebel) and she just doesnt notice, i end up panic braking, but i realized im going to hit the pregnant dog cause shes actually running towards me, so i completely swerve out of her way into the double yellow, but the pregnant dog is actually RUNNING that way too and when she FINNALY make the beast with two backsing notices, she turns her head, and she screams into my helmet and she was litteraly INCHES from me. I stopped turned around to look for her so i could give her the finger but shes gone, and a cop pulls up next to me and just shakes his head...

And im suprised the guy she was talking to didnt tell her to turn the make the beast with two backs around. I swear, thank god for MSF (and the numerous times where ive actually used this skill) cause i was not thinking about swerving, i just did it.