Cager tried to kill me on my way to work today

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Cager tried to kill me on my way to work today on Steeles going eastbound to Leslie. Some D-Bag in a Black Lexus RX330 @ 6am was in the center lane as I was in the far right next to him with someone in front of me. He wanted to get ahead of traffic since it was doing the correct speed (There is always a speed trap here).

He tried to speed up and slow down showing that he wanted someone to move so he could get ahead and nobody made room. If you know the street another lane opens up to the right prior to getting under the bridge. At this point I am lined up with his side view mirror and I go the center part of the lane and prepare to get in to the right hand lane.

No signals or anything he aggressively starts to push is way in to the lane forcing me to the right lane while breaking hard. I followed him on to Leslie while giving him the finger ( he know I was there and still did what he did ) He started changing lanes aggressively cutting people off with out signaling trying to loose me since he knows what he did was wrong. He pulled off to a side street and I took a breath and let him go.

I was tempted to follow him in to work. I wish I had my camera on . . . Okay that's my rant of the morning. The Contour mount is going on on my Arai helmet tonight !
 
As a rider, you will always lose to a car. You know this.. why endanger yourself like this?

Anytime I see a driver that is aggressive.. I ease off my throttle and let him get as far as head of me as they want.
 
Situations like this always make me wanna kick their side mirror off, but then I take a deep breath and "find a happy place", they're not worth it. Glad you're ok, move on and ride safe.
 
jay-d said:
As a rider, you will always lose to a car. You know this.. why endanger yourself like this?

Anytime I see a driver that is aggressive.. I ease off my throttle and let him get as far as head of me as they want.
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^^^ Words o' Wisdom.

chaos, glad you arrived alive.
 
Live to ride another day. Take a breather as you did and just shrug it off. There will always be idiots. Glad everything turned out ok!
 
I know where I was wrong, I got in the moment and late my road rage get to me. I learned another lesson today and wont let it happen again.
 
By the way, had a similar thing happen to me this morning, on the 410 southbound. A Lexus (don't know the model) was using the on-ramps to try and get further ahead in traffic, that was already flowing at roughly 120 Kmh, and tried to push me out of the slow lane and into the side of a transport. He ultimately reconsidered that, rode on my butt from the 407 ramp to Derry, then used the Derry ramp to jump ahead of traffic again. This was around 5:30am.
 
Best to let him try for a ticket, rather than risking your life.

These types of people make awesome radar decoys.
 
I don't understand the concept of this driving mentality. Glad you both are safe. Hopefully, one day popo sees this and acts appropriately.
 
It's the sort of thing that happens routinely, these days, on GTA streets. It's just unusual to note it that early in the morning. Some people constantly harp on speed, as being the big danger on our roads, but speeding was the LEAST dangerous thing I saw that guy do, when considering passing in the breakdown lane, weaving, failure to signal, following too closely, etc., etc..
 
Yikes... You have to meet those morons with a cool head. As Rob said, if you memorize the plate, report it in. Camera's even better.
 
lucky2 said:
its funny cause a mile up the road, you are beside the same guy that was trying to get to were he was going in a hurry:(
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:) yep.. happens all the time. I like to look at them and nod when this happens... thats if they make eye contact Ha ha !
 
Cha0s00100 said:
Cager tried to kill me on my way to work today on Steeles going eastbound to Leslie. Some D-Bag in a Black Lexus RX330 @ 6am was in the center lane as I was in the far right next to him with someone in front of me. He wanted to get ahead of traffic since it was doing the correct speed (There is always a speed trap here).
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I take that route almost everyday... slowing down for that speed trap always feels dangerous.. (obeying the speed limit on a motorcycle is generally dangerous) Lately I just ignore the trap at steeles near leslie.. would rather have a speeding ticket than to get rear ended by some idiot in a rush.
 
I have an 84 neighbour , Eddie, who used to be part of team Mercedes back when they started in Le Mans (way way back in the day). He noticed me push starting my bike and we started chatting. He commented about the "beautiful sport" and how he used to ride back in the 60's.

He told me drivers were much worse, when motorcycles were not as popular, and he used to carry a chain(!) that rested on his tank to smash out driver windows. He even told me a story where a car forced him off the road and he swerved inside a store on McCaul St. :lmao:
 
lucky2 said:
its funny cause a mile up the road, you are beside the same guy that was trying to get to were he was going in a hurry:(
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Funny story, from years back before the 427 became DVP #2.

I used to work at the bottom of 427, off Brown's Line. It was a straight drive up Brown's Line, onto the collectors, then a quick merge onto the express. One day I noticed that an old blue Corolla was tailgating me, coming onto the highway. I was in the slow lane so I slowed down even more, to convince him to go around me. It took a bit, but ultimately he did pass me.

When I got onto 427 I could see that the express were backed up a bit, so I stayed in the collectors until past Dundas. When I made my swap into the express, I noticed an old blue Corolla a couple of cars behind me. I guess that he took the express, as soon as he could, and got caught up in the gawkers who were rubber-necking the collision, that was off to the side of the road. I see him glance over at me as he weaves his way by, fighting through traffic.

The next time, that I saw him, was the arc on 427, next to the airport. He was in the fast lane, which (as usual) was bogged down. I rolled by, at maybe 50 Kmh, in the slow lane. He came up behind me again, as he was using the slow lane and exit ramps to pass traffic, just before Derry/Rexdale. He went around me, by cutting across the breakdown lane triangle at that exit, then disappeared into traffic.

There he was, again. He was in the left turn lane, to get off at Finch, as I came up alongside him in the centre left/right turn lane. Actually I was two cars ahead of him because my lane was clear, as I arrived, while he had a couple of people in front of him.

A similar thing happened at Finch and Steeles; he took the left lane while I cruised past him, and maybe ten more cars in front of him, to be the second vehicle to make a (legal) left turn from the right lane. He caught up with, and passed me, on Steeles at Airport. I saw him swerving through traffic, headed towards Bramalea Rd., when I turned off at Torbram.

The icing on the cake was seeing him pound his steering wheel as I cruised past him where he was stopped at a red light on Bramalea Rd., as I sedately cruised by doing 50 on Balmoral. I remember all the details of this because the look of pure fury on his face, upon recognizing that same motorcycle he'd passed a half dozen times, getting ahead of him once again, was pure comedy gold.
 
Rob, just as well you didnt wave to him.. you might have put him over the edge :) lol!
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Funny story, from years back before the 427 became DVP #2.

I used to work at the bottom of 427, off Brown's Line. It was a straight drive up Brown's Line, onto the collectors, then a quick merge onto the express. One day I noticed that an old blue Corolla was tailgating me, coming onto the highway. I was in the slow lane so I slowed down even more, to convince him to go around me. It took a bit, but ultimately he did pass me.

When I got onto 427 I could see that the express were backed up a bit, so I stayed in the collectors until past Dundas. When I made my swap into the express, I noticed an old blue Corolla a couple of cars behind me. I guess that he took the express, as soon as he could, and got caught up in the gawkers who were rubber-necking the collision, that was off to the side of the road. I see him glance over at me as he weaves his way by, fighting through traffic.

The next time, that I saw him, was the arc on 427, next to the airport. He was in the fast lane, which (as usual) was bogged down. I rolled by, at maybe 50 Kmh, in the slow lane. He came up behind me again, as he was using the slow lane and exit ramps to pass traffic, just before Derry/Rexdale. He went around me, by cutting across the breakdown lane triangle at that exit, then disappeared into traffic.

There he was, again. He was in the left turn lane, to get off at Finch, as I came up alongside him in the centre left/right turn lane. Actually I was two cars ahead of him because my lane was clear, as I arrived, while he had a couple of people in front of him.

A similar thing happened at Finch and Steeles; he took the left lane while I cruised past him, and maybe ten more cars in front of him, to be the second vehicle to make a (legal) left turn from the right lane. He caught up with, and passed me, on Steeles at Airport. I saw him swerving through traffic, headed towards Bramalea Rd., when I turned off at Torbram.

The icing on the cake was seeing him pound his steering wheel as I cruised past him where he was stopped at a red light on Bramalea Rd., as I sedately cruised by doing 50 on Balmoral. I remember all the details of this because the look of pure fury on his face, upon recognizing that same motorcycle he'd passed a half dozen times, getting ahead of him once again, was pure comedy gold.
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Lol nice!

I love it when people gun it to a red light, I just slowly roll up beside them, and before I even need to stop the light changes and I just blow past them. When will people learn
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