So I’m riding home last night. It’s 10:30pm, I’m riding down hill, the road is twisty and cold, so I do the smart thing and ride easy. Out of nowhere I have a car riding my ass, he’s close enough that I can his headlight over mine. This of course pisses me off, so I drop the speed down to a good 15mph. First chance he gets he passes me and takes off. As I get onto the Northway guess who I see, the same busted ass white Impala that was riding my ass. This time as I’m riding past him he wants to get into my lane.
If it wasnt on the Nway, I would kick the mirror off his car. No chance he will catch you, and the chances of reading and remembering your plate, are slim to none.
I was on my way to work on the thruway, doing 80, and a minivan from the right lane, me being in the left, wants to go around a car and never looks back or anything… no blinker, but I could tell it was going to pass because she started to move around a little more in the lane and she was catching the truck, so I was already watching her eyes in the mirrors. I was just cruzing, one hand on my tank and I just let her squeek in ahead of me, I was safely behind her. I just wanted to see how long it took for her to realize what she did. I waived to her, and she look in her mirror and was instantly like “OOOHHH my god… I am soo sorry” She got around the truck and pulled back in her lane and I passed her, she looked back at me and was like “I am soo sorry”… she felt bad, and learned her lesson i think… I just noded my head and gave her the peace sign…
There are two types of people who fuck with bikes, some make mistakes and those are the people we must look out for, and it is just as much my mistake if I get hit, becasue I wasnt paying attention either. Then there are people who just dont give a fuck like the OP.
I’m riding down Rt. 7 a few years back, and there is a guy on a bike in front of the car ahead of me. The guy in this car was one of those “I don’t know which lane I want to be in so let me swerve back and forth between the two trying to cut through traffic” types - and a few times when he flew into the lane behind this bike I really thought he was going to clip his tire he was so close.
Now I’m pretty sick of this guy cutting me/others off, so next time he’s in front of me and hauls ass into the right lane, I close the gap in the left and I’m now behind the bike. At this point we’re just past Latham Farms heading toward Schenectady. I’m behind the guy on the bike for a while, and Mr. Crazy had since turned off.
As we’re approaching the red light at Consaul road the guy in the bike changes lanes and gets next to me. He actually thanks me for being courteous and giving space between us, not riding up his ass when a light turns green, etc. Then he told me I had a headlight out. People helping people. That’s what it’s all about guys. :hug
Tailgating, no signal, no shoulder check is very common. Bascially you will have to ride in a way that you expect people to cut you off and staying out of their blindspot helps a lot.
yea we all been cutt off on the highway , due to blindspots and people being retarded… so like ^ he said just expect it everytime, i always get to the left most of the lane when pasing someone and do it pretty quickly
You got it… If I ever get pulled over for speeding while I pass someone, I will explaine, I am just trying to stay alive. I allways hammer by someone, then slow back down to my normal speed… as to minimize the time I spend in their blind spot.
yea actually, talking about that, i got pulled over last year for speeding while passing someone, and he let me go, i just said i didnt want to take too much time passing any car since they can come into my lane at any time without looking , and he agreed and let me go
I’ve been living here in NY for about a year now and this was the second time something like this happened. Compaired to NC, It seems to be a much safer area for riding. No matter where you go, you’ll have ass clowns that don’t care about bikers.
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