Is it bad ettiquette...

To snap off a cars mirror for overtaking you in your lane. Happened to me this
week and if I could of caught the bitch at the lights that is what I was
planning on doing.

 

What happens if she gets a scare at the moment you snap her mirror off and
swerves?

 

Bad karma.

When you sign on the dotted line for your licence you have consented to
sharing the road with the arrogant, dopey, lazy, arsehole people that
are already there and those that come after them.

Besides that, you may end up getting the shit kicked out of you. Or worse.

 

its good PR....

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:46:18 +1000

You also agreed to not be one of the above.

So what were you doing positioning yourself where you could be passed?

And what should a car driver do to a motorcyclist who passes the car
in the car's lane?

Zebee

 

Depends where and hom much you want to be shot ?.

 

When she takes her foot of the brake and plants it on the accelerator in a
panic what happens? The poor lady, so intemidated by the bad mad biker
smashing off her mirror.

I would say it is bad etiquette to other motorcycle riders as well.

 

I was going to do it while she was stopped at the lights.

Fraser

 

This was my attitude when I was younger working as a pushbike courier. I
knocked one guys mirror off and he was so mad he chased me in his monster
4WD (Its always a 4WD or taxi) down a laneway in the CBD. I locked my back
wheel and did a 180 and we passed each other as he was locking all four of
his wheels. He nearly cleaned up at least half a dozen people when he
reversed back down the same laneway and onto Bourke St (Melbourne) during
lunch hour. I'm glad he didn't because I now realise I would have been just
as much at fault.

 

I was in the left hand side of the lane getting ready to take a left turn at
the lights ahead.

Fraser

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:28:23 +0800

So the driver realised they could do to you what so many motorcycles
have done to them. Why not?

Take the lane. Always take the lane.

Zebee

 

Toosmoky wrote -

I have learned this over many years on another form of two wheels, albeit with a pretty ordinary motor (my ugly legs) -

"Thou shall assume that inattention and stupidity by motorists will surely follow you all the length of your days"

Curiously, the most effective and legal way of repaying crass stupidity or unpleasentness by motorists. is to react in the way they least expect.

Instead of flipping the bird or detaching their wing mirror with violence, try what experienced cyclists do.

Smile and wave, as if you know them.

A totally unexpected reaction from you puts them in a complete quandary.

I find this especially effective on the harley, but even on the scooter they really don't know how to handle a cheerful smile and wave in the face of their boorishness. Try it sometime - it won't get you a phone call from plod and you will go away chuckling at their undoubted confusion and uncertainty about how to handle a completely unanticipated reaction.

Best of all, you go away smiling and having won the argument stone cold.

best, Andrew

 

What shits me is other bikes that pass you in your lane; especailly when
they do it at 30kph over the speed-limit and 30cm from you (and with loud
pipes!).
I EXPECT car-drivers to treat me with no respect but it's dissappointing
when bikies do too.

 

Fuckwit

 

A great example of delayed reaction.
You break her mirror.
She thinks and gets angry then presses the other pedal.
You go to hospital and also get charged with road rage.
She gets the damage that was on her car prior to all this fixed at your
expense.
You say you broke her mirror and then she ran you over.
She says you broke her mirror and she panicked.
It all happened so fast!

 

If you live.... and Fraser, I think that's the bottom line....

We can be as mad as hell, but when it comes down to it, we are far more
vulnerable than car ppl. A motorcyclist can die in a bingle that would
barely affect a cager in a lot of instances... How far do you want to push
the envelope?

I get really pissed off sometimes, and just do a lot of yelling inside my
helmet...... it helps a bit.... lots of very satisfying four-letter words...
and nobody gets hurt. Yes, it shits me that the arrogant prick who has done
the wrong thing gets off scot-free.... but I'm still alive and able to ride
again tomorrow..... and that's the main thing!

I was on my way home from a long ride a while back, and the car in front of
me (peopled by three grey-haired women) cut me off big-time.... I was in the
process of overtaking them, but they were more interested in the merging
lane on the left, and moved into my lane with absolutely no warning (I am
very cognizant of eye/head movement) to give way to the merging person -
kindness personified on the old chook's part, but the stupid cow obviously
hadn't seen me (or even contemplated the possibility that someone else
might've been there! - lucky for her I wasn't a bloody Mack truck!) in
overtaking mode, cos she was only looking at the Other Car on her Left.... I
braked a bit, slowed down as fast as I could, nearly had a UCM (Undie
Changing Moment) and the effing silly cow who was driving was STILL
oblivious when I rode alongside the car a little later, shaking my finger at
them.....although the old girl in the back seat ducked as I shook my
finger..... did she think I had a gun?????

betty, who wants to shoot ppl
who do bad things to us, but realises
she couldn't get away with it (oh yeah,
and she hates guns anyway lol)

 

It really really shits me when I'm stopped waiting to turn right and cars
pass at full speed inches away from me.
I always make sure I'm in the middle of the lane so I've got a bit of room
to move and I often wave my fist or boot at them when I see them coming in
the rear-view mirrors but I haven't ever found a satisfactory way to avoid
the vulnerability!

 

yes, don't smashing mirrors off other bikes.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

I got pushed into the centre median strip (by a yucky green Volvo - bloody
typical), somehow managed to stay upright and luckily there were no signs on
that portion of said strip.

So I waited until he was boxed in amongst other traffic at a set of lights,
got out the trusty leatherman and whipped out one of his valve stems.

Two blokes in a Ute yelled out "onya mate, the prick cut us off too".

I heard nothing of the incident after that but I did see that same Volvo
around.

 

Attacking a person wholly enclosed within a 1500 kg lethal weapon on a
stable base, whilst you yourself are completely exposed on a 200 kg unstable
device, is not very wise. A bit like bringing a knife to a gunfight (to
borrow a phrase from Indy).

Theo