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Keith B wrote:

Wildscar wrote: ....Only thing now is that he might be watching for you and now you are going to have to watch traffic even closer now.

Or, he could be saying, 'I ain't gonna road rage again, I could've gotten shot!!'

Well there is that. I just know that people that will act like that might not like losing an encounter. We can hope that the experience has toned him down a bit.

Excaliber wrote:

Wildscar wrote:I think this guy was having a bad day and just want to take it out on the first person that he came across. It just happen to be you. Only thing that sucks now is that he might be watching for you and now you are going to have to watch traffic even closer now.

I wouldn't spend a lot of worry on this. This was an impersonal, random encounter between strangers, not a personal vendetta or gang related one, so there isn't likely to be a lot of personalized emotion after the incident and the chance that the aggressor would look for a follow on encounter is extremely small.

The most likely response from the aggressor here (after he cleans up and changes his underwear) is that he'll reconsider the wisdom of his actions and refrain from creating similar situations in the future which might end more decisively and less in his favor than this one did.

I can with this.

asleepatthereel wrote:Very close. I was more toward the front of the vehicle though. I could see inside it with the dome light on, but not enough to see if he was holding a weapon or not. Also, there was a curb that Im guessing was at least 10-12" high, so trying to jump my Sportster over it wasnt an option.

Of course, if that thing in the picture was the perps vehicle, Id have certainly tried!

I dont blame you one bit. and The images was the best I could do on short notice. Those G.I. Joe images where the only ones i could frind with a top view. And they are not even to scale either. The bike would have even smaller than shown. Also if you where to jump the curb and hit grass that would have been bad too. Street bikes dont like the grass when they are equipeped with street tires. I know poeple would argue that they did it in Mission Impossiable 2. But then I have them watch it again and pay close attention to the tires. If you notice they change depending on what terrain they on. Gotta love Hollywood.

I think this guy was having a bad day and just want to take it out on the first person that he came across. It just happen to be you. Only thing that sucks now is that he might be watching for you and now you are going to have to watch traffic even closer now.

asleepatthereel wrote: I wish I could draw a picture to show how we had stopped, but I was about 2 feet from the curb, and he was kind of cross parked in front of me at an angle. I would have had to push the bike back about 6 feet before I could have gotten away. In other words, he was about at a 45 degree angle to me with me at the point between the car and the curb with nowhere to go.

You mean something like this. Or at least this is how I have it in my head. Am I close?

asleepatthereel wrote:but its good to know that should the need arise, the training that I hope we all do, will pay off.

And knowing is half the battle.

I agree with asleepatthereel actions. I ride and would have done the same. I have ran from an aggressor one time and that was cause I didn’t have a firearm of my own and I wasn’t going to just roll over and play dead. I will admit I got lucky and those of you who have read the story of that encounter would agree. The person in the car initiated the attack when he used his car to force asleepatthereel to stop. When a car is used to make a bike stop I will consider that an aggressive action with deadly intent.

I do not know the orientation of the car and bike when both persons stopped but if I have it right in my head it might have been more dangerous for asleepatthereel to try to escape around him. To many other variables come into play that would not have turned out good for asleepatthereel.

There is another rider on this forum that had an encounter with a person suffering from road rage and domestic argument at the same time. All this rider did was pull up next to him and look around as most people do. I guess the guy in the car didn’t like it. long story short a fight ensued and the biker got a broken collar bone. Even though he had all his riding gear he slipped on some debris on the road and the driver fell over on top him. His shoulder landed on the curb at the wrong angle. Hes fine now and waiting on his CHL to come in. I belive he would have be justified in doing the same as asleepatthereel did in this encounter.