Coming home from the Qld OzSTOC Xmas party on my 13 along the Gateway Arterial near Sandgate Road overpass....
Road works there brought the 100km/h speed limit back to 80 for many months now.
Bumper to bumper traffic moving at 80km/h (the speed limit).
The only gap to be seen anywhere was the 2 second one I ALWAYS leave in front of me!
This apparently upset the young bloke in the Commodore Ute behind me enough to sit 4ft off the back of my bike (quite literally).
I put up with this for 800m then decided to look at him and gesture that he back of a few metres. You'd think I just killed his first-born!
With both hands now off the wheel he was flipping the bird at me and yelling (I could only imagine what) and motioning me to f*&^ off to the next lane (which was full of cars anyways).
The gap remained the same, but he was sooo infuriated (as was I). Remember I mentioned that there were cars everywhere (so I couldn't even changed lanes at that point), and that we were in actual fact doing the posted limit!
I found a spot 300m later where I changed lanes, and he flew by me, no doubt wishing that a truck would turn me into roadkill, and tore off to the horizon.
I motioned to him that his only lover was his right hand as he went by, but was glad to see the end of him. We can't afford to play snow ploughs out there on meagre motorcycles!
Another car passed me and the passenger were giving me the thumbs up in support.
The amateur psychologist in me would love to have interviewed him to find out exactly what the useless PR&%CK on the motorcycle did to upset him so much. And the amateur Golden Gloves 2009 in me would love to beat the crap out of him afterwards!
If you all saw how compacted the cars were, you too wouldn't be able to believe this guy's actions. I kind of wished it went to court, and that there was footage of the incident.
Someone once said though.... "If you're laying dead on the road, doesn't matter if you're in the right or wrong!" Fair call.
Stickerman showed me his great camera set-up at the party - read about it here
http://ozstoc.com/index.php?topic=2905.msg29544#msg29544 Thanks Tony!
Think it might be a good idea to invest. If I could have filmed the other driver's wreckless behaviour, could I have forwarded a copy to the police for any further action?
I can see why plenty of folks are mounting cameras to monitor others' road manners. Apparently some insurance co's offer a discount for traffic cams mounted in/on your vehicle.
Hmmmm.... We've all got stories like this - just have to suck it most of the time and be glad we have our health I guess.
Vent over.
Cheers, Diesel