Do a wheelie
 

Funny story from a rider on my local sport bike BBS.

Well we've all got the "Do a wheelie" crap at one time or another.

Well got a "Do a wheelie you pussy" from some 16 or 17 yr old kid in the passenger side of what I'm sure is his girlfriends car at a stop light. Looked over at him and told him "OK but I get to ride your girlfriend for the night". OMG the look on the girls face was priceless. She was telling to shut up and tried to roll his window up.

Oh wait it gets better.

Now junior is pissed and throwing "sets" Ohh like some 130lb WANNA BE W-H-I-T-E gangsta scares me. Hell from how far the seat was forward I dont think he was more than 5'4 anyways. I've seen pipe cleaners with bigger arms than him. He fnally blurted out "Shut the **** up or I'm gonna kick your mutha-****ing ass". Oh well I'm already NOT in a good mood, so bike goes into neutral, kickstand down and I hear a sound of the car door LOCKING as I got off the bike. I got up to the car door and this kid turns stark white when he sees me pointing at him with titanium knucked gloves. The kid was literally trying to get away from the door. He damn near got on his girlfriends lap. I could still hear his girlfriend basically telling him he should had shut up when she told him too between his screams. But sadly the light turned green and they took off. So my fun for the day ended.

BTW the guy in the truck behind me was laughing his head off when I went to get back on the bike.

Priceless!

I love stupid people. They're such great amusement.

I am always amazed when some weenie mouths off at the armour clad biker.

I have two guys in jail for ADW. Witnesses saw the look, and the crossover onto me. So many cell phones these days, you have to really be an idiot to try that with a bike these days.

Complaint signed, witness statements done, car on tow truck, perp in cuffs in back seat, all less than 30 minutes. Car is evidence, will be impounded at $95 a day until trial (6 to 8 months), perp has felony conviction when it's all done.

Think about it next time you try to force a bike out of a lane on the freeway. I'm 2 and 0, and proud of it.

Nice work!

Anyone that would show aggression towards a vulnerable rider deserves the worst prison ass-pounding the criminal justice system can administer. Those that simply "don't see you" 'cause they're busy tuning their DVD player or talking to their buddy on the mobile phone while piloting their land barge aren't that close behind.

I had something like this happen a couple months ago as I was heading along on a relatively untrafficked two-lanes-each-way boulevard in Marina Del Rey. One guy in some kind of white SUV thing (dunno the kind, they all look the same to me anyway) makes a right onto the street about 1/2 block in front of me - I'm in the left lane. Since he's accelerating and I'm already crusing along at normal speed, I overtake him right as he decides to whip it into the left lane about as I'm even with his driver's side window. NO reason for this manuver. No traffic around, nothing in his lane in front of him that he feels the need to avoid, nothing. He was on the phone. Burst of adrenaline kicks in, swerve slightly across the double-yellow solid line (thankfully no semi trucks coming the other way), downshift and hammer it. As I escape I see in my rearview mirror that the guy hasn't even been phased. No change of expression, no "oh ****, I'm so sorry man" courtesy wave, nothing. I drift right, let him overtake on my left now (watching carefully) and place a nice size 11 steel-toed boot dent right squarely into his passenger side door, then turn off down a side street. I can't say I feel guilty for it either. If there had been a stop light I swear I'd have probably gotten off, dragged his ass out through his driver's side window and jammed that phone up his sphincter sideways. I normally don't lose my cool when riding/driving, but that was just TOO much.

Anyway, good show taking an even worse example of "pee in the gene pool" off the streets. . . At least mine was inadvertant (at least I think so) - yours was deliberate. If you're ever out here, I'll buy you a beer just for that.

Ride safely.

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?

I'm not much of a fighter, but I have gotten out of my car a couple times. I've always wondered what it would be like to punch someone with my armored knuckle riding gloves. Hopefully I never find out, but I'm really curious.

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.

+1 as well. I am not usually the militant type. But you explain to some idiot that the CHP bike cop might feel as I do about a 4000lb. vehicle vs. a bike would qualify as an assault with a deadly weapon, and they suddenly realize that swerving at a bike on the freeway might not have been a good idea.

Most people on the freeway are brain dead or distracted anyway. I am doing my best to rid us all of the really bad ones. My first is in for 18 to 30 months. The second one goes to trial in 4 months. He is renting a car (his SUV is being held as evidence) to get to work pending his felony trial while out on $375,000 bail. Yes, that's 15% deposited with a bondsman.

He displayed his stupidity towards me 3 car lengths ahead of a CHP bike. I have zero sympathy.

Wow. Glad you guys are okay. I have never had anyone do anything I felt was intentional towards me. So far.

I have had a few of the inattentive, almost killed me moments, but they seemed as frightend after the fact as I was during the event.


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When this happens to you what do you do if a cop isnt around to prosecute these mothers? Do you call 911 and just say what happened? Sounds like a pain in the @$$.

Re: Do a wheelie
 

"wangster" ... to many of those around waiting for an Alpinestar boot to the jaw...

I had a close encounter back a few months ago. It was the tail end of winter. There was a car broken down in the right lane just past a busy intersection. I was in the left lane on my bike and just about to pull up even with the broken down car. A bunch of other cars behind the breakdown were anxious to get over and be on their way. Some BI*CH in a SUV/Minivan decides that its her turn to get over even though I am sitting right there. Normally, I am pretty good about letting folks merge in front of me, except this day I notice that I am sitting on a patch of ice. I was not going to do anything to upset the bike and I was planning on skating past the glassy part to good pavement. When the BI*CH decides to occupy my lane I swerved to avid getting nailed. It was agressive and delibert. She pushed me into the oncoming lane of traffic, and fortunately for me I managed to get back over and not go down in the process. I was very ticked off. I pull along side of her at a light and she proceeded to give me a lecture on allowing other drivers to merge. I pointed out that her little move nearly cost me my life and that while sitting on a patch of ice I was not able to let her merge in front of me. None of this seem to impact her tiny brain. She honestly felt that she had the right of way and that she was justified in practically killing me. Sadly, this one got away scott free. I would have loved to have beat her sensless. With my luck, I would be the one getting raked over despite her obvious threat on my life.

LOL.....thanks for the laugh 5axis..

It IS a PITA. I have been riding (uninjured) for 30 years. I finally got tired of the stupidity, mostly due to the cellphone distraction.

Making a cell call while on a bike is impossible, but the two that I have been involved with were both started by witnesses, one a CHiP.

There is a part of me that thinks a mini video cam running at all times would be a good thang.

Like the video the female rider took of her accident a while back (it's on the web if you do a search). Apparently the guy that hit her tried to blame her, but the video told the true story.

Re: Do a wheelie
 

hehehe, TiMax gloves. always good for the "I" (intimidation) factor. fun stuff

when i was younger, i would have just pulled the wheelie.

now that my hip would shatter, i would ignore the *****.

I don't know about you guys, but the last people on two wheels I'd wanna' piss off are on race bicycles. They eventually do catch up to a car in traffic (usually at stoplights), have those nasty pedal clips at the bottom of their shoes, and are already pissed off at traffic.

Let me know if you are serious. I have a rig right now that will hold 60 hours of video at a time. I also use a helmet cam edapted for a car but intended for motorcycles.

Its relatively small and could fit in your jacket packet.

One of my co-workers is a very avid road cyclist - he races pretty much every weekend and trains daily. He's shared a number of horror stories about vehicular idiocy. Most recently their team was practicing intervals along a long, untrafficked stretch of road at about 5:30 in the morning. 30 or 40 bikes hammering along at 30-ish MPH. A solitary brand-new 6-series BMW passed them in the left lanes (it was two lanes each way with a divider down the middle), so the driver obviously saw the pack of cyclists. Apparently she realized she was going the opposite direction from the one she wanted to go, so as she got to a cutout in the divider to make a U-turn she swung RIGHT (into the right lane) directly into four cyclists before cutting her U-turn back the other way. One guy ended up breaking a collarbone and shredding his arm, my friend got banged up pretty good (lots of bruises), another guy went over the car and broke his wrist on landing. Two $5,000+ bikes were totalled (this is a sponsored race team) with damage to the others. The woman just plowed along the opposite way like nothing ever happened. Fortunately the riders behind them (that she'd passed) saw all this and chased her down, detaining her until the cops came.

(This is the best part)

Cops showed up and said, "well, there isn't enough injury here, so we're not going to cite you" and sent her on her merry way. Municipality? Santa Monica. Some guys from the cycling club are researching it and they're pretty sure she's the wife of some prominent city attorney or something.

Crap like this happens all the time. This is just one example.