Death... aka.. Jackhole, wouldn't have cared how you dressed, unless he saw shotgun slung across your back or bike.

Seriously people like these need their license revoked.

There are a lot of them out there. The favorite stupid trick around here is the cage drives down the middle of the road and doesn't move over when your coming at him on the bike. With any luck your idiot will do something real stupid and take himself out of the gene pool. Just be careful out there. Ed L.

Glad you are OK sunny and that no misfortune came your way ... Yup, too many driver's act as if the Road is their own private domain and that all others who inhabit it are trespassers ... as someone else said, maybe doo-rag'll take himself out ... hopefully he won't take anyone else with him ...
'Round here, people seem to not know what the stalk on the left side of their steering wheel is for ... I feel like following someone who fails to signal, wait 'til they stop, and point out that their directionals "don't work" ... ha, that and SUV drivers in inclement weather ... after a snowfall, you'll always see several of these off the road or overturned in a ditch somewhere ... they must think that 4 wheel drive means anywhere, anyhow, anytime at any speed ... tsk, tsk ...

Glad you're okay Sunny.  I know the feeling.  My last one was several months ago and was a white panel van, whose sole occupant (I refuse to call him a driver or even an operator) apparently had no idea that the vehicle had mirrors or even side windows.  I was in the lane to his right and perfectly even with his passenger-side window.  He decided this was no obstacle to making an unsignaled lane change to the right.  Luckily, we were doing just under 50 and I was in 4th gear.  I was able to accelerate out of his path.  He never even put on his brakes as far as I could tell.  I guess you just never know about some people's kids, huh?  It just reminded me to take extra pains to make myself noticed.  In fact, I am convinced that having since changed to a louder exhaust has made a difference in that regard.  I think it at least helps anyway.

i guess what had me rattled so bad was the actual closeness of that call.
if i had gotten ONE wind gust, i wouldn't be here.
he was that close.

in the hov right there, there is scarcely 18 inches of pavement between the lines and the concrete walls.

The gene pool needs chlorine...

Glad you're alright. Go ahead and turn his plate over to the local PD, county mounties, and highway patrol. Amazingly enough, the "fuzz' is on our side now.
-WD

I agree. In my town more than half of the police are riders themselves.

I had a similar experiance about a month ago. I was in a left turn lane and a car that was in the "go straight" lane decided he needed to turn left.  He nearly drove me into oncomming traffic. And they say your not supposed to brake in a turn.I dont know how i managed to hit the horn, call him an a-hole and avoid the impact all at once. I do know that I pulled over and sat there for about 5 minutes waiting for my heart rate to come back to normal.



I have been thinking about mounting a mini digital camera on the bike to videotape (digitally) as i ride just so people can see what really happens. I found a nice little one at cyclegadgets.com but it is a little to pricy for me.