Thread: Road Rage

Originally Posted by Gordie

Correct Sitec....and I am getting jack of this world we now live in...everyone is still human remember...we still make errors in judgement...all of us. But no, we all have to be 100% perferct, 100% of the time.

Anyone got a remote bush block I can move to and escape this modern society???

Everyone is still human. That's what you said. So, a car driver slowly changes lanes near a motorcycle. The biker had ample time to observe and react, which he did. After that part was over, he decided to ride up next to the car and kick it, precipitating a chain of events that injured people in an uninvolved car. The guy in the car could have been killed, as could the guy on the bike.

You want a bush block? So do I, to escape morons like that thug on the bike, who not only put multiple lives at risk, but lacked the guts or gumption to stick around and help the people whose lives he risked, or face the music. Watch it again with the blinkers off. There is no excuse for his actions. None whatsoever.

I wonder how all you apologists would react if it was your mother in that car.

Originally Posted by Sitec

So, we have another situation similar to the 'Garden Grove semi overtake thread'... Again we are only seeing a percentage of what happened, and again we have the divide.. Bike kicks car (not good in it's own right, BUT we don't actually know what had previously provoked bike rider to kick the car. He should not have kicked the car).. Car driver then tries to take bike out in retaliation. That in its own right is an attempt at someone's life. It doen't thake a genius to know that bikes don't have the protection of a car, so irrespective of the bike being in the right or wrong, the car driver should not have done what he/she did... Both have broken the law in one way or another. End of!

Nope. The car driver made a mistake, no doubt. The biker then reacted in a malicious and premeditated way. This vid isn't like the Garden Grove one, as we can see clearly what occurs, and we can hear the reaction of the people in the car.

I'm fascinated that you can take the car losing control and turn it in to an attack on the bike. Can you point out on the vid what it was that prompted that? Serious question. I can't see it at all.

Originally Posted by Simon

The car almost got the bike, looked like he wasn't far off smearing the central dividing wall. Neither covered themselves in glory.

Watch it again. There is room for a whole lane between that bike and the wall, before the kick.

Originally Posted by johntins

Everyone is still human. That's what you said. So, a car driver slowly changes lanes near a motorcycle. The biker had ample time to observe and react, which he did. After that part was over, he decided to ride up next to the car and kick it, precipitating a chain of events that injured people in an uninvolved car. The guy in the car could have been killed, as could the guy on the bike.

You want a bush block? So do I, to escape morons like that thug on the bike, who not only put multiple lives at risk, but lacked the guts or gumption to stick around and help the people whose lives he risked, or face the music. Watch it again with the blinkers off. There is no excuse for his actions. None whatsoever.

I wonder how all you apologists would react if it was your mother in that car.

I think you misinterpreted my message mate...the car driver made a mistake, the bike rider reacted to that mistake, in a mistaken way....what I am saying is...WE ALL need to take a deep breath in society. I ride a bike, many times I am compromised by dickhead drivers...I don't react(other than to save my skin)...I just shake my head. That is why I 'lane split' at the lights and get my own space on the road. I have flown planes, driven trains, trucks, cars and bikes....and I still make mistakes....

Originally Posted by Gordie

C we all have to be 100% perferct, 100% of the time.

Yep!

Originally Posted by p38arover

Yep!

Hehe, well spotted...in my defence...I am a fan of 'the darling buds of may', where everything was 'perfick'.

Originally Posted by Sitec

So, we have another situation similar to the 'Garden Grove semi overtake thread'... Again we are only seeing a percentage of what happened, and again we have the divide.. Bike kicks car (not good in it's own right, BUT we don't actually know what had previously provoked bike rider to kick the car. He should not have kicked the car).. Car driver then tries to take bike out in retaliation. That in its own right is an attempt at someone's life. It doen't thake a genius to know that bikes don't have the protection of a car, so irrespective of the bike being in the right or wrong, the car driver should not have done what he/she did... Both have broken the law in one way or another. End of!

Never a truer word said.
Im a Bike rider and unless some of these morons ever ride a bike in traffic full of oh sorry i did`nt see you Bull**** they will never get it,
Personally i have belted a few windows when stopped at the lights to get said morons attention then abuse the idiots

Originally Posted by Gordie

I think you misinterpreted my message mate...the car driver made a mistake, the bike rider reacted to that mistake, in a mistaken way....what I am saying is...WE ALL need to take a deep breath in society. I ride a bike, many times I am compromised by dickhead drivers...I don't react(other than to save my skin)...I just shake my head. That is why I 'lane split' at the lights and get my own space on the road. I have flown planes, driven trains, trucks, cars and bikes....and I still make mistakes....

Maybe I did. It was the 'getting jack" comment, probably. I have done all of those things you mention bar the train, and I hear you ( I never had to worry about getting kicked in the B-Double, and if someone was close enough to kick me in the PA 28 then I was already in trouble). I do my best to steer clear of traffic too, and hate being in a bunch of clowns where anything can happen, and probably will. It is getting worse rapidly, IMO.
The only part I don't agree with was that the biker made a mistake. What he did was deliberate, but I will give him the 'red mist' defence. He should have stopped though. He didn't, so he's at best gutless.