Road Rage

"Know that. was that what was happening here?"

We'll never know from that brief clip.



"I don't really blame you, but my question to you was about your professional behaviour, as a long term heavy vehicle operator. Because, if you can snap on a bike, you can snap in a truck. Dealing with someone 'later' works fine for me. But that 'kick' could have just as easily been a 'swerve' in the truck. Not OK, IMO."

I'm known for keeping a cool head and making rational decisions, in a crisis. I have only ever once lost my rag, about 35 years ago.

i wonder if the car driver has learnt a lesson

What is it with truck drivers and motorbikes????

One is a deadly occupation and the other is a temporary australian...

Taking a look in the mirror, I cant see what is the cause of this one extreme to another...

I have found a cure tho, "AGE" with a dash of injuries, seams to cure most problems...

And who ever wrote, they havent laid there bike down, I think they are over cautious or dont ride hard enough...

I dropped my little Suzuki in the dr's car park and then out the front of a mates, both times I needed a bystander to help right my old bike... So to save embarrassment, it is rotting away in the shed....

As for the trucks, luckily I havent owned one for years thus my last boss still turns the wheels, albiet without me,...[bawl]

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Originally Posted by Sitec

I'm not convinced... Arguments should be welcomed... if the parties arguing are presented with all the facts... As with most videos posted these days, only a small part is shown.. The BAD bit! Accidents, wars, cruelty, disaster... The list goes on.. We all now have instant access to the dilemma's of the world, and due to the poor way it's reported with insufficient facts, we only get to see the worst.. The bad bits.... The stuff that makes news. We then all sit there and dwell on it.. 'Oh, that was bad'.. 'Why would they do such a thing' etc etc, which then in turn gives everyone an 'opinion' on what should be done.. or how it should be fixed, or in this case 'who was at fault'! Facebook is the worst for it. Drama after drama, story after story. That is half the reason the world is going the way it is. As I said in my earlier post, we have two people having a disagreement on a freeway.. We do not have all the facts, so every opinion on who is in the wrong is just that. Too many people are sitting up and taking note of what's being fed to them.. and then believing it as fact.. The sad part of that vid is that the two clowns managed to involve a third innocent person.

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Got you talking and thinking, didn't it?

Thats my point. I don't give a stuff if anyone agrees with me. I don't believe that I am always right. In fact, I know I'm not. I just want to challenge fixed and rigid thinking, because I KNOW that is the wrong way to change things, because rigidity is inherently the opposite of change. If anything I say makes people think, then I don't care if it makes their blood boil. Better here than out there.

Back to the thread...

The bike rider may have been stupid for kicking car, but if thats what caused the car driver to lose control, then the car driver shouldnt be on the road...

If the car driver intentionally swerved and then lost control, then he had no control to start with and a danger on the road...

The bike rider had no right to leave the scene, at fault or not, it was an accident...

The way I see it, lock them both up and sort it out... The car driver showed very little respect for any others, the bike rider was stupid to kick the car, but the car driver showed no ability to drive(like 90% of people on the road)...

Still its a yank thing, I just wish we looked the gate but alas the horse has bolted and that attitude has arrived here...

Is it just me and am I wrong in thinking that City drivers are more prone to fits of road rage than their Country cousins?
I don't try to imagine how it would be stuck in traffic every day on the way to and from work, It would drive me insane as well.

Here is some Bush road curtesy that works both ways.[biggrin]
On most of the "Skinny" one lane bitumen roads I have travelled on the majority of the drivers in the bush tend to pull right off the blacktop to let a Truck pass and not force the poor Bugger to have one side of his rig swinging on the dirt.
There are two reasons why we do this.
1/ it makes it safer and easier for the truckie to pass.
2/ with all the trucks wheels on the blacktop there is little danger of it flicking a stone up into your windscreen or spotties.
Win Win

Trout, you been in WA too long...weekends and holidays, they are not the days to go into town..

That being said, I went east when I joined the Army, thought I knew what a city person was, until I met them at basic training..Now I was either nieve or stupid, but there weird...

Meeka to Kumarina, now that was fun... Some sections you didnt want to share the road if you had a high load and double deckers where the scariest...

But a road to remember, Fitzroy to Halls creek pre bitumen... criss cross gravel track, try to guess who had left and right when you meet... Tourists would be the funniest...

[QUOTE]But a road to remember, Fitzroy to Halls creek pre bitumen... criss cross gravel track, try to guess who had left and right when you meet... Tourists would be the funniest...[QUOTE]

HeHe
That brings back some memories, I did Geraldton to Darwin on my Yamaha 650 in the seventies.
I had just got a few miles into the dirt from Fitzroy Crossing on the way to Halls Creek and the heavens opened up and the road turned to mush, That was definitely an interesting ride.

That would have been fun with those holes in the middle full of water... When dry you could lose a car in them...

I have seen a truck stuck in the middle of the road, new bloke running the road, didnt know it was the danger zone in the middle... [bigsmile1]

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Originally Posted by Wraithe

Back to the thread.

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When did we leave it?