blood boiling

[LA]

I like the boot to the door method of conveying my thoughts. My son likes to knock off mirrors. Sometimes 4 wheelers need to understand that fking with motorcyclist can be a little dangerous.

That, young man, will get you killed.  It's amazing what some locals can do with a pickup truck in these mountains.  And watch who you make the beast with two backs with. Ass me how I know.  I have had a guy stick an F150 right up my ass on a very rough mountain road after I passed him.   

Old sayings like "discretion is the better part of valor" have lasted for a reason.  Although, I have kicked a door and I have chased down a car so I could "return" the trash they had just thrown out their window.  I have grown much more tolerant and patient in my old age.

Peeps around  here are armed and some would gladly shoot you, and I don't mean that figuratively, for lane splitting. Of course it's illegal here too, but if no cops are around, I ain't sitting in traffic on a hot day - it huts my motor to go so slow.

LA

[Popeye the Sailor]

That, young man, will get you killed.  It's amazing what some locals can do with a pickup truck in these mountains.  And watch who you make the beast with two backs with. Ass me how I know.  I have had a guy stick an F150 right up my ass on a very rough mountain road after I passed him.   

+1 to that. I live in some awfully twisty mountain roads. There are an awful lot of people in some rather large vehicles that can spank them through the corners surprisingly quick.

[Goat_Herder]

Maybe I am missing something here.  Basically, we are meatball missiles on bikes against rollcages with metal shells.  Why are we putting ourselves in danger by "challenging" cars?  There are always a-holes cagers out there.  When somebody cut me off, intentionally or un-intentionally, I would definitely let them know what they had done.  But I would backoff and stay out of harm. 

I am not saying we should be softies and let them push us around.  But provoking and escalating the situation probably doens't help too much.  I could be off of the line here.  Thoughts?

[fastwin]

I can relate to a##hole drivers. Dallas/Ft.Worth is where they all learned how to drive like that! I think the Texas legislature is currently working on the lane splitting law here but even if it passes I will never do it. All the awful things you all have mentioned will happen ten fold here in DFW if you lane split... it doesn't matter if it's legal or not if you are dead or maimed. These drivers try on purpose to kill you already without giving them a reason. They protect their lanes with their lives! Don't dare use a blinker, that's just asking for them to speed up and cut you off to keep you out of their lane. Doesn't matter if you are in a car or on a bike.

Lane splitting will just agitate them even more. Now you have openly and flagrantly stolen their lane by cheating at a stop light. You'll be a freaking hood ornament within a block in this town!!!

What they need to do is pass an open carry law, they already passed concealed carry years ago. I think wearing a 1911 .45acp openly on your hip and proficient practice with weak hand/clutch side shooting techniques would really cut down on the s#@t! Either that or always carry a passenger with a pump 12 gauge. [moto]

[redxblack]

something like this?

[needtorque]

I have to agree with LA on this one.  I have been known to do some pretty aggressive things in the past.  When I was living in MI I kicked a pretty good dent in the side of a trailblazer for blatantly cutting me off. (closest I have ever come to pulling an endo and it was not on purpose).  I broke a drivers window out b/c he looked at me twice so I was fairly sure he was gonna stay there but the he turns out right in front of me.  Lucky for me I was in the left 1/3 of my lane and was able to swerve enough to miss him but I knew he saw me and still pulled out so I put my gloved fist through his minivan window. 

However, you never know when you might run across these people again and since moving to SC i have heard too many stories about people getting shot for even dumber reasons then in MI.  I remember a couple of years ago and elderly couple got shot b/c they turned around in someone's driveway and this was in the country not in an urban setting. 

I was shot while I was still in MI and since I consider myself to be a fairly law abiding citizen and did not lead a LIFESTYLE of crime, drugs, or the like I am still left to wonder if it was not someone who pissed me off who I in turn pissed off even more with a bad reaction.  (they never found out who shot me so I have no idea of the reason)

All I am saying is be careful.  You can't run from a bullet and dodging a 4000lb+ vehicle that is in the next lane is harder than you think.

[77south]

Two weeks ago, I was returning to Madison from Elkhorn WI,  and travelling in the left 1/3rd of my lane and some idiot in the oncoming lane looked me straight in the eye and crossed his giant pickup truck across the double yellow lines 1/3 of the way in to my lane.  I have never had someone try to kill me before, I was furious and shaking for an hour.  I wonder If that guy points loaded guns at his friend for a 'joke' too?

[Bigbore4]

Two weeks ago, I was returning to Madison from Elkhorn WI,  and travelling in the left 1/3rd of my lane and some idiot in the oncoming lane looked me straight in the eye and crossed his giant pickup truck across the double yellow lines 1/3 of the way in to my lane.  I have never had someone try to kill me before, I was furious and shaking for an hour.  I wonder If that guy points loaded guns at his friend for a 'joke' too?

Now that due i would have been curious.  Just how much fire is trapped in that truck begging to be set free.

[MrFryMoto]

so you were at the light between two lanes, he launched it, you sped up and got in front of him? am I reading that right?

why not just take the gap behind him and then get around later?

i was already ahead - slowing down would have meant him passing right by me in the lane - also the big-rig to the right of me

[Statler]

If you have time/energy to get soooo upset about a car being careless while you partake in a hobby that you want to destroy personal property or injure someone, life is pretty good and you might want to consider relaxing just a tad.

[Statler]

what ever made you think that the country is safer than urban cities?   the "country" area has something called rednecks, basically, the countrry version of scumbags in urban settings, no different.

don't worry the world hopefully has karma of sorts or some version of what goes around goes around, if someone tries to kill you with their car, with any luck their children or grandchildren will be hit and mainmed or killed by just as reckless or je$rk  of a person in a car as they are... because that is what they deserve.

moral of the story, be nice to people, your kids and family will thank you later.   

I am constantly amazed by the hate and rhetoric about karma meaning kids should be maimed or killed.   simply pathetic. 

[Major Slow]

I am constantly amazed by the hate and rhetoric about karma meaning kids should be maimed or killed.   simply pathetic. 

+1

An insult can only cause anger if you let it. Breath deeply and let it go.

[sbrguy]

I am constantly amazed by the hate and rhetoric about karma meaning kids should be maimed or killed.   simply pathetic. 

I'm just saying that maybe if people knew that their reckless and dangerious actions had truly serious and much farther reaching consequences than their own pathetic lives they would be nicer to others, that is all. 

but i do see your point , maybe you are right.  instead if karma made their kids or closest loved one do to them the same horrible thing that they did to someone else then that would be acceptable.

[silentbob]

shoot all radicals

[He Man]

what about cubic roots?