Cager tried to kill me on my way to work today

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).

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 !
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I had similar cases before, but I was in a cage when this happened. When we pull beside each other at a stop light, the guy was making gestures to me. So I rolled down my window, and the guy quickly stopped. Just some guy who was in a real rush to get somewhere. When the light turned green, he took off like a drag race. This happened nearby midland and progress area and was way back in Feb of 2011.
 
Alvito said:
Wow you guys wake up real EARLY to get to work!
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Every minute that I leave later, is 2 minutes longer to get to work. It takes me maybe 35-40 minutes to get to work, in the morning, but more like an hour and a quarter to get home. I'd rather be sitting at my desk, doing paperwork from the day before or just surfing, than getting annoyed in Toronto's usual gridlock.
 
Flywheel said:
I think Toyota has finally arrived. It used to be that imbeciles favoured BMWs. Now, 9 times out of 10 it's a Lexus with tinted windows.

Bring on the tolls Mayor Ford (motorcycles and scooters excepted, of course).
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Bring on the property taxes, Mayor Ford. It's time that Toronto citizens stopped having unrealistic ideas about how much it costs to have streets, that aren't full of potholes, and tolls would have businesses moving out of the core or closing, making the place look like downtown Detroit or Chicago.
 
Had a Roger's van try to do me in this morning. Had the green and was pulling through the intersection as a big, red Rogers' van barely even slows down for that red light and makes the right hand turn into the left lane I'm riding in. Sadly had limited time to slow down, Lock up the tire, squeezed over as far as I could,(not much I could room with the meridian in the middle), hit the horn and managed to slow it down enough he squeaked by me.

Get up beside him at the next stoplight and I have the road rage moment, screaming at him and making gestures(which I know in hindsight is completely ****ing useless)...guy has the nerve to flip me off.

Roger's has already been called.
 
Rob, gotta disagree with you on this point. As you know, I've been commuting to the downtown core for 20+ years 8-9months a year on a motorcycle. I do not have these incidents every week. Maybe once or twice a year, if that. I believe I'm pretty observant. :) I have more incidents when driving in the car during the 3 months of winter then I have riding the bike for 9months. I attribute that to being able to control the situation much better on the bike. I can put myself where I want to be when I want to be there. The bike allows me to be much more aggressive then the car which I believe allows me to avoid most of the incidents described in this thread. I hate typing this as I know I'm about to jinx myself and get spatted like a bug on the way home this afternoon... :)

Rob MacLennan said:
If you commute to the downtown core on a daily basis, and don't have something like this happen to you every week or two, it just means that you aren't noticing it when it DOES happen.
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ddusseld said:
Rob, gotta disagree with you on this point. As you know, I've been commuting to the downtown core for 20+ years 8-9months a year on a motorcycle. I do not have these incidents every week. Maybe once or twice a year, if that. I believe I'm pretty observant. :) I have more incidents when driving in the car during the 3 months of winter then I have riding the bike for 9months. I attribute that to being able to control the situation much better on the bike. I can put myself where I want to be when I want to be there. The bike allows me to be much more aggressive then the car which I believe allows me to avoid most of the incidents described in this thread. I hate typing this as I know I'm about to jinx myself and get spatted like a bug on the way home this afternoon... :)
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You may well be right about that. I know that you're far more aggressive, in traffic, than I am. I won't make the comment that I could, though, because I would likely just jinx myself too ;)
 
Its sad to see how many of us go through this on a daily bases. It’s a sad but true reality of riders. Be safe out there guys their out to get us !
 
In what way?

I believe that being an aggressive rider allows me to avoid many incidents on the road. Especially in traffic. I prefer to control the situation as opposed to being controlled. That said, I'm not so arrogant to believe that I'm in total control. :)

GayManLoveIsOK said:
hang on, doesn't that contradict what you just stated?
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Yesterday on my way from KW to Toronto 401 eastbound around Guelph I was cut off by a vehicle with a sticker on the window that says 'Look twice save a life, motorcycles are everywhere'. Yes, I did snap a picture with my camera, I know what you're all gonna say. Yes, the driver did endanger my life cutting me off. BTW, I snapped this after I took a moment to enjoy the perfume of the driver in the HHR and give us a little space, LOL. Whoever you are, you are pretty cute :) but I didn't need to start sweating.

http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k525/katrider1/looktwicesavealife.jpg
 
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honestly when a car tries that on me i stare then down and beat my chest like ****ing hit me smart *** i even steer closerr. they dont have the balls. im rdy to die as well so when someone is dumb enough to hit me... ill have it on camera and hell be off the road soon enough. a worthy sacrafice for my rider allies
 
Now you see, I'll just never understand the logic in that. First, he doesn't see the rider who is right next to him. After that the rider damages his side mirror, so that he won't be capable of seeing the NEXT rider, who is beside him. To top it off, he's posted evidence of his little pending vandalism charge on the internet.
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Now you see, I'll just never understand the logic in that. First, he doesn't see the rider who is right next to him. After that the rider damages his side mirror, so that he won't be capable of seeing the NEXT rider, who is beside him. To top it off, he's posted evidence of his little pending vandalism charge on the internet.
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The driver didn't use the mirror anyway, LOL!
 
Cha0s00100 said:
Its sad to see how many of us go through this on a daily bases. It’s a sad but true reality of riders. Be safe out there guys their out to get us !
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I haven't had too many of these incidents myself when riding, but more so when driving. Either way, especially on a bike, we do have to let these things go, as car will always win in these situation.
 
I know a rider who got cut off/bumped by a car, into a curb as he left a left hand turn from a 1 way to a 1 way. He picked bike up, reset the key (tip over sensor) and went after it at 100kph and booted the power mirror clean off the rather expensive luxury car. Long story short, it turned out to be a drunk girl, driving the car for her also drunk friend, whose dad let them use it to go out to the bars. I wish I coulda been there to see the look on daddy;s face when he saw all the side panels dented in AFTER he cut the vehicle off depending them to get out of the vehicle.

Daddy paid $900 to fix the bike plastics LOL

This may perhaps be the 1/100 time a bike(r) "wins" against a car.
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