Was riding home ~ 5:45pm this arvo, through moderate peak hour traffic. Comming up to a set of lights, the cars were backed up about 200 metres. I start splitting traffic at about 30km/h (the cars were stopped), when a ute up a head swerves into my way, and the tosser driving it sticks his head out the window and starts screaming at me... Obviously frustrated at having to wait in line. Unable to make out a word he's saying, but sensing his frustration, I ride around him and, as I pass, give him the finger. Fairly certain he can't squeaze between the cars, I keep riding... Next thing I know, there he is, driving up the left hand median strip, with his head out the window, swearing and giving me the finger back. I weigh up the odds of bike vs ute, and decide they're not in my favour. As the lights turn green, I gun it, and take off out from between the cars. He swerved into the left hand lane just as I passed... and that's the last I saw of him. After that I was doing 130 - 140 down the park way, splitting traffic like a mad man and hoping there were no cops around. Took a few backroads home, just to be sure.
Gotta say mate... giving him the finger in the first instance was hardly the brightest thing you could have done. But regardless, some people are just prone to road rage and for that others suffer. <!-- s:???: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_confused.gif" alt=":???:" title="Confused" /><!-- s:???: -->
woulda given more than just a finger..... useless pricks dont understand that if they got a bike they could do it themselves. not to mention the benefits to them- less cars taking up space everytime someone jumps on a bike, therefore less congestion less pollution less fuel getting used wankers
Darwin is cruel to some. With any luck he hasn't already propogated and he'll be removed from the gene pool shortly.
Not to sound like a heartless bastard but reading that I pissed myself laughing. Good work on the finger. I have had a woman do the same thing but just the swerve and a bit of horn action. I can only imagine the looks on the other drivers faces as they where split by a ute wielding maniac.
As soon as you said ute, I could see it was going to turn ugly. Almost exclusively driven by heroes. Vanity plates and wanky back window messages optional. The variant on this theme is the SUV (for want of a better word) size Hilux's. I know someone who drives something that big and won't hesitate to run a rider off the road moreso where the rider has made a blunder or is seen to be 'getting one up' on the 4wder.
