One of these days I'm gonna ....

[SilvrT]

... unleash all of my my pent up anger for idiots on some poor, unsuspecting jerk if I ever catch up with one.

 

Nina & I were out for a ride yesterday ... beautiful sunny, warm fall day. Two lane road, approaching a hill that opens to a 3 lane, passing lane going up, single lane down. Traffic in front, traffic coming towards and a guy on a small, what appeared to be dual-purpose type bike riding my ass.

 

Get to where the passing lane starts which is a left sweep and then turns to a long right hand sweep and I crank it in the passing lane to get past the "Sunday drivers". Start into the right hand sweep and we're movin pretty good, in the lean, passing the cagers and I check my right mirror for the guy on the bike (he was still on my ass just prior to that) ... don't see him in the mirror. At that very second I hear him on my left.... he's passing me on my left, in my lane, as we're going around this right hand sweep, passing the cages in the right lane ............ with traffic coming down the hill !!!

 

I had to do a real quick steering correction to prevent colliding with him and to allow him enough room to avoid a head-on with the oncoming traffic as by this time he's right on the center line .... geeesh! (it always amazes me how experienced "instinctual reaction" takes over)

 

Gets by me ... swerves around the cage in front of us, goes between it and another car and he's ahead of everyone and gone.

 

This all happened in a matter of a few seconds.

 

I tell ya, if I had caught up with that IDIOT somewhere down the road, he would be wishing he never got on a motorcycle that day!

 

Then, later on, in a small community, approaching an intersection where we had to turn right, a woman cuts across in front of us from a parking lot on the opposite side of the street ... never even saw us ... it was obvious her sole intent was to get across the street before the big truck coming towards us. Nope, she couldn't wait for that truck to pass .... just had to hit the gas and go .... didn't even look to the right.

 

FRIKKEN A-HOLES !!

[etcswjoe]

Have seen a whole bunch of both issues latley, for some reason the guys behaving badly on the bikes upset me more than the cages.

[Peder_y2k]

You must be riding in Canada. Standard operating procedure up there. I partially learned how to drive in Vancouver where if one wanted to get across the street, they had to pull in front of a car in the nearest lane causing it to stop so to be ready to take advantage of any small space comming up in the opposite lane. 4-lane roadways were a real challenge to cross, but I'm still alive and unscathed. Lane splitting is best learned in Los Angeles at rush hour.

-Pete, in Tacoma WA USA - 48 yrs riding

[Dragonslayer]

... unleash all of my my pent up anger for idiots on some poor, unsuspecting jerk if I ever catch up with one.

 

Nina & I were out for a ride yesterday ... beautiful sunny, warm fall day. Two lane road, approaching a hill that opens to a 3 lane, passing lane going up, single lane down. Traffic in front, traffic coming towards and a guy on a small, what appeared to be dual-purpose type bike riding my ass.

 

Get to where the passing lane starts which is a left sweep and then turns to a long right hand sweep and I crank it in the passing lane to get past the "Sunday drivers". Start into the right hand sweep and we're movin pretty good, in the lean, passing the cagers and I check my right mirror for the guy on the bike (he was still on my ass just prior to that) ... don't see him in the mirror. At that very second I hear him on my left.... he's passing me on my left, in my lane, as we're going around this right hand sweep, passing the cages in the right lane ............ with traffic coming down the hill !!!

 

I had to do a real quick steering correction to prevent colliding with him and to allow him enough room to avoid a head-on with the oncoming traffic as by this time he's right on the center line .... geeesh! (it always amazes me how experienced "instinctual reaction" takes over)

 

Gets by me ... swerves around the cage in front of us, goes between it and another car and he's ahead of everyone and gone.

 

This all happened in a matter of a few seconds.

 

I tell ya, if I had caught up with that IDIOT somewhere down the road, he would be wishing he never got on a motorcycle that day!

 

Then, later on, in a small community, approaching an intersection where we had to turn right, a woman cuts across in front of us from a parking lot on the opposite side of the street ... never even saw us ... it was obvious her sole intent was to get across the street before the big truck coming towards us. Nope, she couldn't wait for that truck to pass .... just had to hit the gas and go .... didn't even look to the right.

 

FRIKKEN A-HOLES !!

I've often thought about starting an Internet Motorcycle group to promote motorcycle safety called B.A.S.T.A.R.D. which stands for:

B=Bikers, A=Against, S=Stupid, T= Texting, A=And, R=Retarded, D=Driving

 

We could have t-shirts and everything.

[Yammer Dan]

Where do i join bob?

[SilvrT]

I've often thought about starting an Internet Motorcycle group to promote motorcycle safety called B.A.S.T.A.R.D. which stands for:

B=Bikers, A=Against, S=Stupid, T= Texting, A=And, R=Retarded, D=Driving

 

We could have t-shirts and everything.

 

LOVE it! I'm IN

 

fwiw, bastard-r-us.com is available (bastard.com not)

 

 

 

http://bastard-r-us.blogspot.ca/

Edited October 7, 2013 by SilvrT

[Dragonslayer]

LOVE it! I'm IN

 

fwiw, bastard-r-us.com is available (bastard.com not)

 

 

 

http://bastard-r-us.blogspot.ca/

We'll need a web master... Hey Frebird are you in?

[Huggy]

Went there I just love it!!!! I know where you are coming from on this one!!!!

[etcswjoe]

Book marked

[Snaggletooth]

Visited and bookmarked. This is going to be a keeper. :thumbup:

 

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