Once saw a bloke get cut off by a cage. He pulled up next to it at the lights. He leant over and placed his helmet (with tinted visor) up against the drivers side window of the car and just looked inside at the driver until the lights went green.
I didn't get to see the drivers face, but I'm sure the look would have been priceless.
Lane Splitting by a cage
re: Lane Splitting by a cage
****warning, i rambled on a bit here***
bout a year ago I was minding my own business in the left hand lane (medium traffic on a 60kph two lane road).... welp, a white pajero (i can still remember the license number too) didn't realize i was there. it was a sunday, the foockwit of a driver had his family in the 4x4 that never sees dirt (mom and daughter of early teens)..... so anyway, he obviously doesn't know i'm RIGHT THERE beside him, and he doesn't indicate, he just starts to come over (more quickly than you normally would, cuz he obviously is about to miss a left turn coming up.....
welp, i can either slam on the brakes or gun it..... i down-shifted (my old ride with a pipemaster carbon can=LOUD) to first and got around him barely not falling off the road.......
i get up to the next red light (i'm 1st in line), and this pajero comes barreling down on me!!! i'm in 1st and ready to take off if he doesn't stop in time.... he screeches to a halt sideways behind me, and proceedes to get out of the toorak tractor (mom and daughter are agast)....
he runs up to me (biggish guy, middle-age) and starts abusing me with every cuss word he has. I didn't know what to do, i was FUMING!! HE almost ran ME off the road cuz of his dumb stupidity and all he could see/yell about was that my bike was loud and i must of come "hooning" up from "no-where".... so i'm just sitting there staring forward (tinted visor) not even acknowledging him, and he keeps on, wanting me to reply.... and he slams my head with both his hands..... and goes back to his car.....
welp, i was still dumbfounded, and SOMEHOW restrained myself from not taking off my helmet and using it as a wrecking ball on his windows (i think cuz his family was there) all the other traffic was totally surprised at what was going on..... anywho, i let him know with body language that i got his number plate details and that i'd inform the cops of this episode, and also got other witnesses details, i take off from the lights (shaking madly) i wanted to stop and find the largest rock i could and wait for him to make the next turn.... but i go to the closest cop station, and tell them everything....... NOTHING!
NOT A DAMN THING THEY WOULD DO. i was incredulous. i had details. it JUST happened..... so i say, what if i retorted then? what if i did the same shit back to him??? oh, THEN i'd be in trouble!!!
anyway, moral of this long story..... take the law into your own hands, bash the fucker, carry a switchblade for pruning the farkers tyres there and then, that was such bull shit..... police, to protect and serve.... whatever. god that experience still gets me shaking mad... hard to type atm....
bout a year ago I was minding my own business in the left hand lane (medium traffic on a 60kph two lane road).... welp, a white pajero (i can still remember the license number too) didn't realize i was there. it was a sunday, the foockwit of a driver had his family in the 4x4 that never sees dirt (mom and daughter of early teens)..... so anyway, he obviously doesn't know i'm RIGHT THERE beside him, and he doesn't indicate, he just starts to come over (more quickly than you normally would, cuz he obviously is about to miss a left turn coming up.....
welp, i can either slam on the brakes or gun it..... i down-shifted (my old ride with a pipemaster carbon can=LOUD) to first and got around him barely not falling off the road.......
i get up to the next red light (i'm 1st in line), and this pajero comes barreling down on me!!! i'm in 1st and ready to take off if he doesn't stop in time.... he screeches to a halt sideways behind me, and proceedes to get out of the toorak tractor (mom and daughter are agast)....
he runs up to me (biggish guy, middle-age) and starts abusing me with every cuss word he has. I didn't know what to do, i was FUMING!! HE almost ran ME off the road cuz of his dumb stupidity and all he could see/yell about was that my bike was loud and i must of come "hooning" up from "no-where".... so i'm just sitting there staring forward (tinted visor) not even acknowledging him, and he keeps on, wanting me to reply.... and he slams my head with both his hands..... and goes back to his car.....
welp, i was still dumbfounded, and SOMEHOW restrained myself from not taking off my helmet and using it as a wrecking ball on his windows (i think cuz his family was there) all the other traffic was totally surprised at what was going on..... anywho, i let him know with body language that i got his number plate details and that i'd inform the cops of this episode, and also got other witnesses details, i take off from the lights (shaking madly) i wanted to stop and find the largest rock i could and wait for him to make the next turn.... but i go to the closest cop station, and tell them everything....... NOTHING!
NOT A DAMN THING THEY WOULD DO. i was incredulous. i had details. it JUST happened..... so i say, what if i retorted then? what if i did the same shit back to him??? oh, THEN i'd be in trouble!!!
anyway, moral of this long story..... take the law into your own hands, bash the fucker, carry a switchblade for pruning the farkers tyres there and then, that was such bull shit..... police, to protect and serve.... whatever. god that experience still gets me shaking mad... hard to type atm....
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re: Lane Splitting by a cage
Mate, sounds like a simple matter of assault to me. If the copper in the station didn't take a report, you should complain to the Police complaints authority. That's why they are there.
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re: Lane Splitting by a cage
Had a guy try to overtake on the left the other day. White Ford Transit van. I was doing the speed limit (roadworks) and the moron decided that it wasn't fast enough. I'd been watching him in my mirrors for about 300m cos I thought he might try something like that. I, err, let him know that wasn't quite the thing to do, and he proceeded to curse and moan. The road widened to two lanes, he went roaring by, only to get stuck at the traffic lights a few hundred metres down the road. I was turning right (lights were green for me) so I stuck the indicator on and waved as I went by.
And to those who say I was needlessly (and/or dangerously) provoking this scum, he was wide enough to put me either into oncoming traffic, or up the gutter. I had a clear view of the driver at all times, and was in an appropriate gear to leave the situation if I was actually threatened.
And to those who say I was needlessly (and/or dangerously) provoking this scum, he was wide enough to put me either into oncoming traffic, or up the gutter. I had a clear view of the driver at all times, and was in an appropriate gear to leave the situation if I was actually threatened.