Because I drive for a living I see examples all the time. However whenever I get on a bike I see things that scare p*ss and pickhandles out of me. I'm not sure if its only because your much more exposed on a bike or if they really do treat you differently because your on a bike. I know they treat heavy vehicles differently; both afraid of and impatient at the same time.Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done to them by man, beast, or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their own fear of death, jail, and lawsuits, which are much less likely if they can find a motorcycle to challenge, instead of another two-thousand pound car or a concrete abutment. … Because the only thing that can alter their careless, ingrained driving habits is a threat of punishment, either legal or physical, and there is nothing about a motorcycle to threaten any man in a car.
- Hunter S. Thompson in his book “Hell’s Angels”
Possible reasons for their behavior could be: because the car driver is jealous of the freedom and system bucking represented by a bike. Because the car driver is down on bike riders for a percieved slight, or the fact your a sports-bike rider or a cruiser rider or whatever. Because the car driver needs the car as a penis extension, and hence must challenge everything to a pissing contest. It may be just because they are so cocooned by technology and engineering that they have no idea at all what it is they are doing.
I realize this is probably a variation of a re-hash of innumerable prior threads. But some recent experiences have taken the glow off having a new bike and added a fair measure of distrust. So what are your thoughts and experiences?
*starting to wonder if motorbike riders should have the right to bear arms*
