Might not be so keen next time..

lol,

xxx

Highway Code thingie: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/index.htm

hippy mate, it's always you that'll come off worse off in this kind of situation.

If you're pissed off, best to just take out your anger on your bike and sprint !

lpg hippy mate, it's always you that'll come off worse off in this kind of situation.
If you're pissed off, best to just take out your anger on your bike and sprint !

How so? Long term heart disease? Ulcers? I do my best self destruction with what I consume. Getting angry at drivers is a bonus.
Oh and I do sprint.. I just wish there were some faster fsckers living out west.. a rabbit to keep the pace high you know? :)

My girlfriend used to live on notting hill avenue, by Holland park station...good fun, that hill. ... especially cos the cars go as fast as you, so taxi-man is doing 30 on your back wheel.

anger is non productive though ..doesn't help anything.

and cos your on 2 wheels all you need is one cunt who doesn't like the words you used and that's it, he hits you and drives off, and you can't walk for a month.

Aww come on.. angry is my happy time.

You're not getting it though.. I was doing 4x his speed it's just that I had stopped at the lights and was taking off from stationary.
He might have knocked me off my bike but then his precious MG is gonna receive some panel beating.
I also have his plates (and make a point of getting them) so if I was injured and wanted to take it further, I'm sure I could find where he lives, etc..
If they're going that fast that I can't twat them I'm hardly gonna be arguing with them.. like in Oz.. they'd knock you over and be gone before you'd picked yourself up.
Been there, done that. Peak hour traffic here is almost stationary.

lpg If you're pissed off, best to just take out your anger on your bike and sprint !

You're saying kick the crap out of your bike, and then run away very fast...?

he did the right thing, not many motorists will take on a 95kg beefcake. runt boy lpg yes.

NOTE: all aussies aren't like hippy, he's special, he was born in mildura (out in the bush, with crocidile dundee :p)

whats this about me being scrawny DB!? i'm not skinny!

you're skinner than me!

true i'm light at 67kgs, but you're taller and weenier.

Don't get me wrong, I kind of like people who can get a little bit psycho, my brothers a good example of someone who goes from calm to vindictive instantly. I think the world needs people like that to remind everyone that the "might makes right" rule is sometimes thrown by the odd weirdo who will just go skitz on anyone...

Unfortunately he got all the aggression genes in the family. The best I can do is a calm talking to or at a push a witty put down.

I didn't knock any mirrors off the last cab that nearly took me out, when we met again. It just depends, like most things.
Get me when I'm tired (most of the time) and I have a shorter fuse.
dogsballs is right though, Aussies ain't all cnuts.. and just for the record Crocodile Dundee is a pussy.

Hello first time caller. This is an issue very close to my heart, I have perfected a technique after years of abuse from motorists. It takes a lot of anger to get me to this point but have found the best way to resolve this kind of thing is to rip the keys out of the ignition and if you are really lucky there will be a drain to chuck them down. Be ready to pedal very very quickly........

but it's only warm enough for 1 month (if we're lucky), otherwise everyones windows are up!

hippy
dogsballs is right though, Aussies ain't all cnuts.. and just for the record Crocodile Dundee is a pussy.

"i don't need a gun, i got a Donk!"

Dude's window was up and mirrors are more expensive and easier to get hold of.
As mad as I might get I don't think I've ever broken bits of car intentionally.. maybe a light bump now and then.
The more serious ones I'm usually lying on the ground after anyway.

hippy So tonight's commute some plonker in Acton has a go when I pass some other plonker on a bike who rode in front of me at the lights.
I arc up. Driver arcs up.
Stuck behind a bus he's now hopefully seeing the full stupidity of beeping me because I was "in his way".
Nope. Shouting continues. We shuffle in traffic.
He raises fists as if asking for a fight so I slow down and near his door (not 'that' close though!) I tell him to get the fsck out of his car now.
Surprise surprise.. big man doesn't wanna get out of his car.. (pissweak.. your missus has a bigger cock). Make point of getting rego.
To prove to this dumbass in his blue MG and his boyfriend that bikes are quicker.. I follow them from Acton all the way to West Ealing before getting bored and swinging off home.
I love getting angry! And the gf has made me apple pie! All in all apart from the damp, a sweet ride home :)

Yesterday a guy beeped at me cause he couldn't pass me on a very narrow section of one way road - not my fault clearly. I turned round, slowed down, told him to fuck off and gave him a two finger salute - without thinking. Bike rage is so natural to me now. It's actually quite worrying, if someone actually hits me I'm likely to punch them without even thinking. I don't mean this in a "I'm so hard way" I don't like how quick I am to get mad. I need to chill out a bit.

nothing like a melbourne style road rage. good thing all you get here are looks and finger wavin. back home drivers do get out of their cars for a punchon, tailgate you home, chuck sht at you, etc etc...

The car rules Melbourne. God help those in car's way.

I find road users attitudes here to be similar to UK but slightly more chilled out. Sometimes I want someone to react so I can vent some aggression but usually they just wave or mouth "sorry"

Nobody likes being wrong. Much less having their noses rubbed in their wrongness. People don't want to kill you (most of the time) they are just insulated in their metal death machines and didn't see you. I try not to get angry or righteous - the net result isn't in our favour. Matt Seaton (whose book you have read Hippy) speaks a lot of sense on the subject.

I have always regretted getting into shouting matches/fights for road incidents...the reason being that usually when someone has done something wrong and you have a go at them, they get on the defensive and say it was all your fault...the injustice of this riles me so much that I end up thinking about it for the rest of my ride, going through things in my head that I wish Id done...riding in a peaceful state of mind is of course more enjoyable...

the other reason is that I am a good disser, but a poor fighter...so I can easily get someone pissed and yet cannot easily back myself up...so starting args is unwise for me...

having said that, when someone fucks you over on the road, its near impossible to stop yourself from having a go - you just want the wrongs to be righted...

I try to be pretty zen these days...

I have just watched a cabby and a scooterist punch on outside my window, literally 5 minutes ago.
Sensational - punch the living suitcase out of each other, I say.

'Can't we all just get along?'