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How do you deal with stupid drivers?

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Trials said:
... one more thing; I've come to the conclusion I crash more when I am wearing a helmet video camera,
I can't seem to ride good and make a good video at the same time, from now on that thing is getting bolted to the bike. ymmv.
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haha I've had my best crashes while filming my rides. I find the best thing to do is come home, secretly watch the video and delete it before my wife finds out it was in fact my fault.
Then I show her my bike and place blame elsewhere - works like a charm.
 
rinomato1 said:
as a motorcyclist who has been on hiatus for 5 years, I always wondered how other fellow riders dealt with stupid drivers. ie.: tailgaiters, Impatient drivers, distracted drivers, aggressive drivers etc..... because in a perfect world there would be perfect drivers..... but that's not the case. About 5 years ago we were out on a group ride, and we were going along the Allen, towards Lawrence and a man was tailgating us, flashing at us honking just plain putting our lives at risk... now we got to the stop and the fellow I was riding with got off his Harley, reached into his pants pulled out a nightstick and just shattered the guys front windshield, then another rider with us, decided to follow suit and pulled the guy out of his car and just thrash him. the driver certainly deserved his fate had he hit anybody but that was an overreaction from others and not myself I woulda just let the goof pass me. Now, my biggest fear was oh crap there are other drivers they are probably gonna call the cops on us, so we eventually pulled off somewhere along Lawrence gathered our thoughts and came up with a plan to disperse. Point is these terrible drivers constantly put Our lives at risk why arent entitled to defend ourselves!?!!? the best way imho is to always record record record! cameras baby. What's or how were some of the ways you dealt with these kinds of people.

another scary thing is being stopped at a red light and someone narrowly rear ends you. scary stuff

Thanks
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Roads were meant for transportation and a bunch of riders use them for recreation and do a gang run that usually obstructs traffic. I don't do rides for that reason. Critical mass and everyone thinks they are untouchable. So who was the bad guy? The driver honking his horn at a parade, the thug with a nightstick (Indicating premeditation) the other rider actually assaulting the driver?

I avoid as many of these people as I can by not provoking them.
 
Michael0124 said:
I think a lot of riders have a sense of entitlement on the road. It's especially evident in those stupid "angry crazy people vs. bikers" videos on YouTube.
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I enjoyed the one where the entitled Grom dude
passed and inserted himself in the middle of a 1% group ride
special kind of stupid on display
not that I condone ass-beating
but the dude was asking for an ass-beating
 
Deal with them by moving to BC. My gf lives there and I make a trip a few times a year, people are courteous, give way, never been cut off, everyone follows the limits if not going less than posted. No one goes out in the snow, so its all clear roads vs congestion from people who can't drive in it here. Heck BC drivers are so civilized every time I come back the GTA feels like a zoo. The quality of riders there is also much better, respectful and there for the views, scenery, and place, not to impress, show off, and cut off.
 
My sis lives there and I've been many times. People drive the way they do in BC cuz they're all stoners.
Respectful/civilized = high on weed
:)
 
shanekingsley said:
My sis lives there and I've been many times. People drive the way they do in BC cuz they're all stoners.
Respectful/civilized = high on weed
:)
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Could be, being legal here our stoners aren't as good then sadly. It also has to do with the fact the cops will tow your car if you go 30kp/h over, lots of speed/red light cameras, insurance is all handled by ICBC, no shopping around if you run into issues. Add the fact lots of people are environmentally conscious and fuel is pricey, they drive slow to be conservative. Other than in the mountains, where I got passed by almost everyone and even trucks. Also upto now Uber/Lyft are illegal there, so not many of those drivers stopping randomly to pick someone up, drop someone, not know where to stop etc...
 
nobbie48 said:
Roads were meant for transportation and a bunch of riders use them for recreation and do a gang run that usually obstructs traffic. I don't do rides for that reason. Critical mass and everyone thinks they are untouchable. So who was the bad guy? The driver honking his horn at a parade, the thug with a nightstick (Indicating premeditation) the other rider actually assaulting the driver?

I avoid as many of these people as I can by not provoking them.
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ScorpionT16 said:
Could be, being legal here our stoners aren't as good then sadly. It also has to do with the fact the cops will tow your car if you go 30kp/h over, lots of speed/red light cameras, insurance is all handled by ICBC, no shopping around if you run into issues. Add the fact lots of people are environmentally conscious and fuel is pricey, they drive slow to be conservative. Other than in the mountains, where I got passed by almost everyone and even trucks. Also upto now Uber/Lyft are illegal there, so not many of those drivers stopping randomly to pick someone up, drop someone, not know where to stop etc...
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sounds like ita nicer out there than it is in this ******** of Ontario particularly Toronto and its GTA.... I dont care who I offend but it's becoming like South Side Chicago with all the violence and secondly, I feel like a minority in my own country! I think that's why there are alot of stupid drivers. The government just hands new immigrants licenses like its candy, and these folks are bringing their bad driving habits from back home HERE! SO we have a melting pot of all these cultures, most of these people probably didn't even own cars back home and if they did hardly knew how to operate them. I'm sorry, but it's the government's fault, for being so bloody greedy. The drivers tests out in Europe are much more stricter. Also, I have to say for the most part European and Japanese makes up the BEST drivers/riders on earth... I've been to europe and japan and have seen how these folks drive and ride and let me tell you CLASS A1! There would be alot less stupid people on the road if A) The government didnt hand any new immigrant a drivers license and B) IF the actual drivers test was based off of the European model. (knowing how to drive standard, knowing how to change a tire, basic maintenance, mechanics of a vehicle, high speed manoeuvring, low speed manoeuvring driving through curves, mountains etc...)
 
J_F said:
I ain't rattled

I am curious though
how can you tell that the drivers who piss you off are immigrants?
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well in my area certainly 70% immigrants I'm not gonna say where but I KNOW! secondly my gpod friend is in the insurance business, I get some information and heard stories. look, whether you want to beleive it or not there is fact to this, I'm not here to blame immigrants I'm strictly blaming the government for not CORRECTLY educating these people properly.
 
Don't understand all this reference to "cagers". I'm quite sure that 99% of us drive cars on a daily basis. That would make us all "cagers" no ??. Plus it's a bit of silly "biker slang" that's out of date.

"We just want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man". Peter Fonda, The Wild Angels.

Luv the nostalgia of that quote, but I wouldn't use it today.
 
I try and avoid all of you. If you're going stupid fast, I slow down. If you're going stupid slow, I speed up. If we meet more than once, I take a break, or find a different route. Anybody, that I ride with, if they do something stupid, that's the last time I ride with them. Fighting and stupid **** like that went out in the '60's and early 70's in Canada when they started cracking down on drinking and driving; people who haven't been drinking tend to realize that it's a zero sum game. I've only had one issue (finger) while on a bike, and that was while I was following a new rider who was practicing for his M. He wasn't very efficient at his lane change for the coming left turn, and a pickup truck got annoyed as I blocked the left lane and let him in.
 
J_F said:
I enjoyed the one where the entitled Grom dude
passed and inserted himself in the middle of a 1% group ride
special kind of stupid on display
not that I condone ass-beating
but the dude was asking for an ass-beating
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Seems to me that the 1%ers were the ones feeling "entitled "in that scenario. There is no law that says we all have to let a bunch of knuckle dragging, pimps, drug dealers, & extortionists, with bad attitudes & matching hygiene take over a road like they own it. I've had to pass them myself. If they'd get those 900lb. + 2 wheeled barges moving up the road then a Grom wouldn't be able to get inserted.
I'm sometimes disturbed by the thinly veiled "respect" that many seem to show these deadbeat posers. 1% is about crime, not motorcycles !.
 
the law is of little help to you when dealing with outlaws
to each their own of course, but I choose to avoid them

I figure it would not be productive to scream about how you had the right of way on your Grom
while dirty tattooed meatheads in leather chaps beat your face in
 
The issue here is DRIVER EDUCATION. its not good enough, I mean I'm just so surprised at the **** I see on a daily basis that occurs on any and all roadways within the GTA and outside of it. I feel like the government is a little too lax in its "testing" and "licensing." The drivers are the ones with the larger road presence than that of a two wheeled vehicle and should take EXTREME CARE with the operation of said vehicles. unfortunately, we live in an individualistic society full of selfish, careless people who. beleive that life is cheap. Because, If people cared alot less motorcyclists, pedestrians, cyclists would be killed every year.
 
El_Destructo said:
Don't understand all this reference to "cagers". I'm quite sure that 99% of us drive cars on a daily basis. That would make us all "cagers" no ??. Plus it's a bit of silly "biker slang" that's out of date.

"We just want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man". Peter Fonda, The Wild Angels.

Luv the nostalgia of that quote, but I wouldn't use it today.
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At one point, we are all pedestrians, drivers and riders.
Amazing how short our memories are when moving between forms or locomotion.
 
Trials said:
... one more thing; I've come to the conclusion I crash more when I am wearing a helmet video camera,
I can't seem to ride good and make a good video at the same time, from now on that thing is getting bolted to the bike. ymmv.
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All of my most epic crazies, like high sides or low sides that start at 200km/h+, are when I don't have a camera on. I swear I ride more stupid without one lol
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