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Originally posted by Noah930
Moves like that, do you practice them in an empty parking lot like panic stops and tight u-turns? Or just go out, wing it, and do them when necessary, finding that's it's a pretty self-explanatory defense mechanism?
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The latter. Like I said, I'm normally a pretty easy-going laid-back kind of guy and I don't easily get riled on the roads, but the lacadasical nonchalant devil-may-care attitude with which this idiot almost killed me just sent me from zero to blind rage in about 0.02 seconds. Maybe I should feel guilty about it but I don't. Putting myself back in that situation gets me angry just thinking about it. I'd probably have stomped the guy's head in if I'd been given the chance. Probably better that I wasn't.
I've had plenty of "oh ****" moments on bikes, but almost universally people at least act apologetic or make some sort of gesture to indicate that they know what they did. That's really all I look for. Well, that and to get out of the situation unscathed, first and foremost.