I hate tailgaters

[Brock Kickass]

Everyone is so tough when they have 4000lb of metal and glass protecting them. What's the need to be so tough, anyway? It blows my mind how aggressive people can get on the road. What great offense have I done to cause you to blow your stack? Try to pass you? Toot my horn when you have your face buried in your phone and don't see the light change? I've driven outside of North America, and it seemed like people were a lot more civilised on the road. What gives? I wonder if people get so enraged because when things happen on the road it points out their own shortcomings, and they choose to go on the offensive instead of admitting they're not perfect?

 

[DragonBlu]

In Oregon they use sanding gravel when it is icy or packed snow. I learned a bad habit from driving semi that when someone is tailgating I just pull to the right slightly and catch the sanding gravel piling up on the shoulder. This will spray their windshield and the front of their car with gravel and they will back way the F off. Of course I don't condone this behavior,but I sure have fun doing it. Like I said,It's a BAD habit,but it works. When on my bike, I just pull over and let the dumb asses go by.

 

[Spunky99]

Back up your SD card / video before turning it over...
Good luck...

I record everything now with a handlebar mounted GoPro, and should have what will be a helmet-mounted Drift in my mailbox tomorrow (for POV, and picking up all the texting, knee-driving, make-up mongering, gesticulating, unguided missiles out there that can't be picked up with a straight ahead cam)...

I'll let you know when I release the compilation on FoolTube...

I have the original on my cam and a copy on my work laptop and will copy to my home PC when I get there. I copied the video and the screenshots to a removable 2GB SD card that I will take to the Police. They can keep the 2GB card as I have several just for this purpose.
This asswipe was eyeballing me the whole time and apparently doesn't like the fact that motorcycles here in CA are allowed to lane split. I guess it's just too damn easy to use a 4000 pound car as a deadly weapon and get away with it...I won't ride my bike unless I have a cam running anymore and thats why I have 2 cams...just in case one doesn't work or is broken.
I'll have the video uploaded to Youtube tonight.

 

[MiltonDorkenhoff]

This asswipe was eyeballing me the whole time and apparently doesn't like the fact that motorcycles here in CA are allowed to lane split.

I think he's the exception though. Most people move over when I'm splitting. But one exception is all it takes to ruin your day.

It would be awesome if not only was he arrested, but if the whole thing was publicized to make the rest of the people like him think twice before driving like assholes.

 

[MNGreg]

It would be awesome if not only was he arrested, but if the whole thing was publicized to make the rest of the people like him think twice before driving like assholes.

+200 votes on this!! They need to start making more public the punishments people get for some things as a way of trying to deter other would be a$$hats.

 

[Spunky99]

I'll betcha the Police don't want to do a damn thing and tell me to be more careful.
Then it get's posted all over Youtube, FB and everywhere else.

 

[Detrich]

Imo, even if it is illegal to lane split, that still doesn't give ANY car or truck or vehicle the right to intimidate a motorcyclist by driving in a dangerous or threatening or violent manner.

It is not ok to run them off the road, because the driver desn't like how they are riding.

This is not a video game. It's human lives. And, some of these assholes seem like a few brain cells short of having any kind of common sense.

 

[Spunky99]

Imo, even if it is illegal to lane split, that still doesn't give ANY car or truck or vehicle the right to intimidate a motorcyclist by driving in a dangerous or threatening or violent manner.

It is not ok to run them off the road, because the driver desn't like how they are riding.

This is not a video game. It's human lives. And, some of these assholes seem like a few brain cells short of having any kind of common sense.

According to CA Penal code, 245 (a) (1) Any person who commits an assault upon the person of
another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm shall
be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or
four years, or in a county jail for not exceeding one year, or by a
fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both the
fine and imprisonment.
It is a class 1 felony and a strike on their record (3 strikes law)

Just steering your car towards a motorcycle in a menacing manner is a 245 (a)(1). You don't have to hit them.
That is what cagers need to know. Just scaring a motorcyclist by steering your car towards them is a felony and they can go to jail for it. I wish this was broadcast all over TV because with all the video cams and cell phones proliferated out there, maybe this crap wouldn't happen. If that dude saw that I had a cam he never would have done this.

 

[MustGoFaster]

I think he's the exception though. Most people move over when I'm splitting. But one exception is all it takes to ruin your day.

It would be awesome if not only was he arrested, but if the whole thing was publicized to make the rest of the people like him think twice before driving like assholes.

I concur, however let me add to the punishment the following:

1) Have each nut split with a pruning shear.

2) Have his wenis decaptitated than burned in a tire fire.

It's open carry in Arizona. I think I may start doing that on rides. Everytime I see something like this... :shakehead:

 

[Spunky99]

I concur, however let me add to the punishment the following:

1) Have each nut split with a pruning shear.

2) Have his wenis decaptitated than burned in a tire fire.

It's open carry in Arizona. I think I may start doing that on rides. Everytime I see something like this... :shakehead:

I grabbed my junk when I read that...ouchie.......

What if it's a girl?....nevermind..I don't wanna know.....

 

[MustGoFaster]

I grabbed my junk when I read that...ouchie.......

What if it's a girl?....nevermind..I don't wanna know.....

He's already a dickless wonder for trying to run a bike off the road and feelin' like a hard-ass. Might as well make it a reality.

And if you ever *do* wanna know what the consequence would be for a woman, merely ask, and my dementia shall consult with my psychosis and provide an answer.

 

[MNGreg]

I grabbed my junk when I read that...ouchie.......

What if it's a girl?....nevermind..I don't wanna know.....

LOL
10 chrchters

 

[Spunky99]

Stupid punk ass is on youtube now...

04_19_12.avi - YouTube

 

[BoneJj]

Stupid punk ass is on youtube now...

04_19_12.avi - YouTube

respect.....

You handled it well, I would have likely kicked a mirror off...

 

[tzrox]

3) if the asshole is still there I'll pull my clutch in and normally go ahead and downshift 2-3 times getting ready for step 4, but once I find the gear I want I SLAM on my rear brake locking it up just long enough that I know it's rolling in smoke and I see the car behind me slamming on brakes too

4) bounce off the revlimiter and get the F Outta there because I just pissed off someone who was already pissed

Man just be careful because I find it people tend to tail gate when they are distracted. If he/she is dickin around on their phone or messing with the radio when you slam on your brakes, their 10-15x the mass will plow through you before you have time to bolt.

 

[Chevyfazer]

It's not as bad as it sounds, because the bike hardly slows down at all when it's just the rear tire lock up. It's mainly a visual thing, the cager sees smoke and brake lights then freaks. Still yes it's probably not the best of ideas but I can get aggregated easily and absolutely hate when cagers try to bully bikes.

 

[keith217]

Tailgaters are ridiculously bad in CA. They just don't care. I've had it happen a couple times in my car where they're so close I can see the pimple on their nose!
On my bike though, I'll just dust them.. going faster than the flow of traffic is safer anyway.

 

[leprecaun jon]

i was in the same boat as the OP's OP about two weeks ago... 3 cars tailgated my friend and i... the first one we were doing 71 in a 45 and the dude passed us on a double yellow doing close to 90..the second was a black cadillac suv who passed us again on a double yellow shortly after we turned on the same road he was traveling....the third passed us yet again on double yellow, however this time there was a gap between my self and my friend...almost a car length...he passed both of us...but i alone was put in the situation where i had to pull off the road to let a tailgater go by out of fear of being hit about a week ago.... people just dont understand that we can stop faster than they can... every time i slowed down this dude would slam on the brakes like i had stopped abruptly eventually i just pulled off and waited a bit before i got back going where i was headed

some people just have no respect for other road users or motorcyclists

 

[MNGreg]

i just pulled off and waited a bit before i got back going where i was headed

some people just have no respect for other road users or motorcyclists

Good control and manuever! Like your self control to just pull off and wait. Agreed, some people (increasingly it seems) think that they own the road and its their own INDY racetrack, screw everyone else on the road.

 

[nismos14]

I have formed my own ways around this, if someone is tailgaiting me I'll slow down to just above the speed limit, and be in the middle or right lane. If they want to pass me they can do it the right way in the left lane. On a single lane road I wil pull over and let them pass. I'd really hate to have to be in a situation where I have to brake hard and they are too close to me and nail me, so I increase the distance between me and the vehicle in front of me and allow myself significant space to brake.