idiots on the road

[pinnacle]

i tell ya there are some real dip shits out there and shouldn"t be driving......i took my 11 year old son for a ride this evening just riding along not being stupid when i got into a residential area and some goof who thinks it"s not his responsibility to check for on coming traffic before pulling out of a road he was stopped at sends me skidding after locking up my rear brake.I stayed in control but not without crapping my pants at the thought of my little guy getting injured due to his stupidity.oddly enough he came back my direction later and i followed him ready to plant my size 12 on his head but i lost him briefly and since i still had my boy on the back i didn't want to set a bad example for him so i left it alone.....

 

[BradyMitchell]

Know what you mean, almost got creamed the other day on the interstate by some old fart who doesn't know how to check his mirrors.

 

[mud_shark86]

Thats the only reason I hate biking. You have to be constantly thinking and watching for the next idiot to do what he's going to do. And it could be anything... I had a car in front of me pull off in the left lane (Double yellow line) only to pull off in her driveway on the right hand side of the road. You would have thought she was driving a 18 wheeler. I thought she was pulling off to let me go by so she could back into her driveway on the left side.. Some people do that here...I was wrong. I started to go by and she turns in front of me. I had to lay the bike down. Thank God it was my 85 Intruder...

 

[[email protected]]

Yeah, they are everywhere. I thought I was getting taken out from behind (ha ha) yesterday. I was riding thru a 4 lane, commercial area. Lots of stores on both sides of the road. I was in the left lane, stopped, with my left signal on trying to get into the Lowe's parking lot. Some chick on her cell phone had a hard time seeing me there I guess. Almost ran right into me. Luckily I was holding tight to the double yellow. She slammed on her brakes and swerved around me with just enough room to clear me and the car in the right hand lane. Its not like I stopped all of a sudden, I was sitting there trying to make a turn for awhile and she approached but its like she never even noticed I was there.

 

[SpecOps13]

Stupid people, there are over 5 Billion of them on this planet. That leaves room for a very few who aren't.

 

[jbretthorton]

You are SOOOO right Dave.... so right... this world is getting more and more idiot friendly to, what a shame. So much for natural selection

 

[shorthair88]

I know of some individuals who carry ballpean hammers in their beltloops, Not a terribly refined way of dealing with things, but gets attention. Most all are HD riders. Not something I condone but once again, gets attention.

No hate replies please. just shareing.

Shorthair..........

 

[RaWarrior]

I used to know a guy who carried a bunch of smallish rocks in one of his vest pockets(the "badass" type), and when a car would tailgate him he'd flick a few over his shoulder. They weren't big or heavy enough to damage the windshield or anything, but I'm sure the produced a nasty "whack" and made the driver think the bike was kicking up gravel off the tire or something. When someone tailgates me, I just speed up and lose them, or at night let them pass, then get behind them and put on my 100 watt high beam. I can see it blasting straight into their rearview even from the bike. Usually before long they start slowing down to try and get me to pass them to get out of my death-ray headlight.

I was out the other day on a side byway, and there was some enviro-hippy in a Prius doing 15 under the limit. Behind that was a beater Civic, who was RIGHT ON the Prius' ass. Like seriously maybe a foot behind it, tagging his brakes constantly. Of course the prius rides the brakes the entire way down the slightest hill, and slows to a crawl on every corner. A narrow passing window opens up, I drop it to second and smash it, intending to pass both at once. I was keeping a comfortable distance from the civic, giving me a full second or two to build up speed to blast by the slowpoke and the slowpoke's hemorrhoid. I was wary the civic was ancy-in-the-pantsy to pass also, but there was no way the dotted line was long enough for an 80hp POS to chug up to speed so I figured I was safe. Of course, I'm wrong. The idiot in the civic(complete with fart cannon exhaust and well ventilated quarter panels) slides into the left lane to attempt a pass right as I come up on him. Of course no signal. By then I'm hitting third and already at 70 and climbing fast from our previous lethargic pace of about 35 or 40. No time to brake, so I had to pass the passing civic, we were three-wide across the road. Crapped my pants a little since I was on the narrow oncoming shoulder, and this road had poles with reflectors like 6" off the side of the road. I didn't have much wiggle room. And to top it all off, while I made it with plenty of room before the next blind corner, the civic was barely mirrors-even with the prius when the driver finally realized his POS wasn't going to make it, and apparently had just enough common sense not to drive into a blind corner in the oncoming lane, slammed the brakes and slid in behind the prius again. What a dork.