[Closed] road rage!

Surely he hit you and you just bounced of his car?

Or did you go all a bit Basil Fawlty

So I have just kicked some poor guys door in for cutting me up!
Realised what a giant idiot I am.
Sat down for 10mins to calm down.
Told him to let me calm down... several times.

Apologised
Admitted my fault.
Offered to pay for the damage.

Well look at the positives, you probably wont ever do that again.

Kicked his door in, like this?

Kicked his door in for being an ass = good
Hung about and paid for the damage = D'oh!

Hahahaha! that's not exactly a happy ending!

[i]I am pretty remorseful now and my mood is bitter.[/i]

Why? If he cut you up? Don't get it. Were you in a car?

Kicked his door in for being an ass = good

do you wear big boots ?

was it his back door?

I had the rage this morning so know how you are feeling.

You guys crack me up!
Was more Basil Faulty meets the Spartans.
He cuts me up. I called him names so it went...
I was driving not cycling.
Ended up doing similar stuff while on bicycle to motorists.
Hence road bike consigned to turbo trainer.

Wish someone would hurry and invent a teleported.

[i]I was driving not cycling.[/i]

Ah, now I understand.
Should be in the chat forum, hmm?

bigad40 - Member
So I have just kicked some poor guys door in for cutting me up!

He cut you up - end of - you should have tore his head clean off Mortal Kombat-style.

Careful DezB, you don't want to pick a fight with this guy. I've heard he's got a mean kick!

At least he'd apologise afterwards 😉

[i]was it his back door?[/i]

🙂

Should be in the chat forum, hmm?

Kick a man while he's down why dontcha

Anger management!

Geez you were driving, I can understand if you were on your bike.

Unless it was his back door! Then you need to decide which team you want to bat for!

Geez you were driving, I can understand if you were on your bike.

On your bike you could easily end up in hospital so a bit of anger is understandable. As it was the car then you've acted like a twit. Sounds like you realise that, hope you can deal with it better next time.

boot someone's door in for cutting you up on your bike - well done
boot someone's door in for cutting you up in your car - naughty boy

STW is bizarre

boot someone's door in for cutting you up on your bike - well done
boot someone's door in for cutting you up in your car - naughty boy

STW is bizarre

Someone cuts you up when you're on a bike - You could end up in hospital or dead.
Someone cuts you up when you're driving - Probably some minor damage to the car.

Someone cuts you up when you're on a bike - You could end up in hospital or dead.
Someone cuts you up when you're driving - Probably some minor damage to the car.

The chances of being killed are bloody slim, so we are left with some personal injury vs damage to car.

Well my car is ****ing expensive, yet I heal for free, so where do you stand now with your questionable morals, eh?
EH?

Well my car is **** expensive, yet I heal for free, so where do you stand now with your questionable morals, eh?

you base your morality on cost..? 😯

well.. perhaps the world really is going to hell in a handcart..

its as good a metric as anything else yunki.

How do you rank your conflicting morals? A dogs life over a pheasants?
A drowning boy over an old man's spot in the life raft? 😉

I don't have any morals.. 😳

When they were handing out morals the deaf fella was on duty and I got more eels.. 🙁

so does that make you [i]a[/i]moral or [i]i[/i]moral?

I always get that wrong...

Well my car is **** expensive, yet I heal for free, so where do you stand now with your questionable morals, eh?
EH?

knobber

Someone cuts you up when you're on a bike - You could end up in hospital or dead.
Someone cuts you up when you're driving - Probably some minor damage to the car.

There is cutting up and there is cutting up. I've been 'cut up' plenty of times on the bike where the most that was at risk was I might burst into a particularly deep frown or maybe a little "hmphhhh" of expiration.

There's also deliberate selfish cutting up where the safety of others is not taken into consideration (door kicking approved) and cutting up through a genuine error of judgement. Not in the same camp in my opinion. I'd love to share the road with only perfect drivers but then again I'd like to only have bacon butties made from flying pigs.

Glad the op has come here to recognise his error rather than add to the keyboard warrior pond life gene pool.

bigad40 - Member
Wish someone would hurry and invent a teleported.

I think you're missing sbob's irony there t_r 😉

theres no ironing to put away stoner.

knobber

If you genuinely took my post seriously, the post where I inferred that human life is of less value than my car, then you need help my friend.
Or at least a little guidance.

or maybe sbob he's just spent so long riding our roads and has come to the conclusion that human life really [b]is[/b] of less value than a car [i]to some people[/i].

There's also deliberate selfish cutting up where the safety of others is not taken into consideration (door kicking approved) and cutting up through a genuine error of judgement.

You're assuming that the two have different outcomes. Despite all our experiences of idiot drivers, the first case is admittedly quite rare, and usually it's easily to spot the idiots and take appropriate action to avoid them. However in the second case, it's much more common and also much more difficult to anticipate and take evasive action, so in some respects the 'genuine error of judgement' cases are more serious.

To be honest the drivers who annoy me most are not the aggressive idiots, but the clueless zombies who simply don't look where they are going. Not sure it deserves a door kicking but at least if they were somehow made aware of their incompetence they might do something about it.

or maybe sbob he's just spent so long riding our roads and has come to the conclusion that human life really is of less value than a car to some people

I must be doing something wrong as in my 30+ years of riding, I've only ever had one car load of knobbers deliberately trying to cause me grief, and have yet to encounter a driver making a mistake that I could not make allowances for.

Having said that, I do not wear a helmet cam and never use the phrase "primary position"... 😈

I've only ever had one car load of knobbers deliberately trying to cause me grief, and have yet to encounter a driver making a mistake that I could not make allowances for.

Where is this utopia that you ride? Or are you saying that the safety of cyclists is solely down to their ability to avoid errant car drivers?

 

[i]Teleporter Rage?
Now that could get messy[/i]

[James T Kirk voice]

Beat me up Scotty!

[/James T Kirk voice]

I must be doing something wrong

*a phrase so frequently used lately it's going to join the echelon of "All cylists RLJ" "you don't pay road tax" and have "you have no insurance" Yawn!

OP - I once stamped on the top of the n/s wing of a passat that was trying to have me off, on purpose. I was higher up on a DT125 at the time, but I damaged the car and I've never once regretted it.
Work out how close a car has to be to you so you can stamp on top of the wing..... He was underneath my handlebar and I actually had to move away slightly so I could bring my foot up.

[i]*a phrase so frequently used lately it's going to join the echelon...[/i]
Already has for me!

Anyway, why has this thread gone all about riding? HE WAS IN HIS CAR!!

HE WAS IN HIS CAR!!

😉

yunki - Member
you base your morality on cost..?

"Lamb shanks...Shabba Ranks!"

I don't commute, which is where you probably get your greatest concentration of bad driving: people rushing to work late/eager to get home/pissed off by the emasculation of an office job, et cetera.
I also don't live in London (Cambridgeshire, as someone asked).

I do think I have a much greater awareness than a lot of cyclists who post vids on youtube however, the endemic lack of observation is quite worrying.

OP - I once stamped on the top of the n/s wing of a passat that was trying to have me off, on purpose. I was higher up on a DT125 at the time, but I damaged the car and I've never once regretted it.

I do think I have a much greater awareness than a lot of cyclists who post vids on youtube however, the endemic lack of observation is quite worrying.

Interested in how you come to this conclusion. In 99% of the youtube videos I've seen the cyclist seems to be looking straight ahead or to the side while some idiot pulls out in front of them or cuts in on them. The very fact that these things are on the video would seem to prove that their observation was perfectly fine. Or perhaps you're mistaking 'observation' for 'Oh, there's a car who wants to pull out/get past so I best get out of the way'?

I'd wager the average city commuter has much better observation than someone who cycles rural country lanes on a sunny Sunday.

Interested in how you come to this conclusion.

Here you go:

In 99% of the youtube videos I've seen the cyclist seems to be looking straight ahead

Easy!

perhaps you're mistaking 'observation' for 'Oh, there's a car who wants to pull out/get past so I best get out of the way'?

Perhaps you're mistaking crashing and being hit, because if you can avoid it, there is little difference. 💡

I'd wager the average city commuter has much better observation than someone who cycles rural country lanes on a sunny Sunday.

I'd wager you have no idea what you're talking about. 🙂

sbob-- do you ride a high horse type of bike ?

If by "do you ride a high horse type of bike?" you mean "do I continually strive to raise my standards of cycling/driving/riding", then yes.

Or maybe I'm afforded such a magnificent view from my lofty steed I simply find it easier to spot, and avoid, potential trouble. 😉

Of course, there are some ****ers out there that are going to plough into you no matter what your course of action is, save staying in, and even that is no guarantee judging by the mismatched brickwork on the house up the road that is situated on the outside of a bend.

Stay safe kids.

Ps. I do sometimes make mistäkes, you know.

it only takes one poor/inattentive driver to ruin our day/life-- so yes self preservation is often heightened whilst on bike/foot etc on roads.

i live in a semi rural environment, even so, you need to keep yer wits at all times !

OP
Needs a new door!!!
It wasn't being cut up that sent me into a rage but himafter swerving behind pretend ramming. Undertaking swerving in front of me and hitting the brakes. You get the picture.
In that moment I kicked every car that has ever cut me up on or off the bike! And for every fellow cyclist, motorist or pedstrian I have seen being cut up.